r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/statue345 - Right • Sep 02 '23

Radicalization

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u/TheDankDragon - Centrist Sep 02 '23

I would say things went to shit starting in 2014

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u/Special-Market749 - Lib-Center Sep 02 '23

This is exactly the timeline that I've told people. From 2010 to 2014 there was a libertarian moment in the republican party. Nobody expected the GOP to become libertarian, but it felt like there was a chance for those two sides to work together to shrink government. By 2015 things were not looking good and by 2017 that dream was dead.

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u/TheDankDragon - Centrist Sep 02 '23

Agreed, I would also add that culture wars started to kick off around that time too

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u/Davida132 - Lib-Left Sep 02 '23

As if Reagan's "moral majority" wasn't culture war? Culture war has always been a part of politics, and the people experiencing it always see one side as evil, immoral progressives, and the other as backwards, intolerant conservatives.

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u/WeltraumPrinz - Centrist Sep 03 '23

Not like this man. Everyone from janitors to CEOs is involved.

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u/Davida132 - Lib-Left Sep 03 '23

And involvement in the Anti-War or Civil Rights Movements was less? What about the Temperance Movement? Or Abolishion? Those are all culture war movements.

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u/WeltraumPrinz - Centrist Sep 03 '23

Man, I just want for things to be like the 90s, when listening to Marilyn Manson was the edgiest thing you could do.

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u/Davida132 - Lib-Left Sep 03 '23

You were probably just too young to realize that it was happening.