Controversial Political Opinions

[JasonBlack]

Quote:Well, sometimes one must be preachy, especially about the consequences of very bad behavior such as drunkenness, drug use, dishonest business, and sexual debauchery. It might make one feel less guilty, and on occasion it works to improve people. Maybe not often enough, though.

The reason I'm blaming the left on this rather than the right is that all the right wingers I know are practical bending over backwards to say "we already agree with you on that", but they keep moving the goalposts to piss people off with more and more extreme opinions. ex
- most of the right already has no problem with gay people
- most of the right is already against racism
- most of the right already agrees with the basic principles feminism was supposed to be about (tbh, I am increasingly not one of them, but most right winger's views on feminism are much closer to a liberal position than the kind of 1950s-style gender roles people act like most of them want to go back to)
- most right wingers aren't against policies to curb global warming. we're against the anti-natalist misanthropy and Malthusianism that generally go along with it

When you actually want to solve problems, digging into more and more extreme positions and moving the line further and further away is not what you do, but people don't want to do that. They're so obsessed with preaching from a pulpit of moral high ground that, if there are no urgent issues around to spearhead, they will create their own in order to validate their self-image as a crusader, liberator, rescuer, etc.