03-14-2018, 01:52 PM
(03-13-2018, 05:35 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(03-13-2018, 10:27 AM)David Horn Wrote:(03-11-2018, 04:29 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(03-11-2018, 10:13 AM)David Horn Wrote: Actually, voting is one area that youth are actually better prepared than their elders, because it's less emotional to begin with. That's the point of pushing for the vote for 16 year olds. Personally, I'm not sold on voting at 16, but I'm not totally opposed either.
Hmm. Blue voting and blue politics seem to be more driven by emotion and more reliant upon emotion. I see a lot of emotion being used in politics on the left side. I see political gatherings that remind me of pep rally's associated with my youth/ younger days. I've seen airheads and idiots who didn't seem to understand or recognize the seriousness of the issues at hand or the issues that were at stake at the time.
The SJWs are the left's version of the Trumpists, so yes, both sides do it. The biggest difference is centrality. The GOP has swallowed the fear mongering and nativist nonsense from the Trump team, hook, line and sinker. If that becomes the baseline attitude in the Democratic Party as well, then we have real troubles ahead.
FWIW, there are voices on the left fighting back against this tendency on that side. I don't hear those voices on the right.
Trump has placed the Democratic party in a tough position. Does the Democratic party stick with American tradition or let go of it? Do you see any one affiliated with the right trashing liberal College's, burning down portions of cities, rioting with police, tearing down statues, entering political rally's and taking over the stage, overwhelming security and chasing guest speakers off stages and so forth? You hear them because they aren't really needed on the right.
I'm not far from Charlottesville, so RW violence is not atypical here. On the other hand, we have a very limited number of hyper-SJWs, so it may be the area as much as the meme. It's interesting that the voices fighting LW outrages are also LW, or at least liberal. Bari Weiss from the NY Times has taken this on as a project, and has been getting slammed by feminists (she's one herself) and Millennials (she's that too).
The culture is broken. I do hold the right responsible for creating the environment for this over the last 40 years, but both sides are now engaged. Citing colleges as hot-beds of LW activism is probably right, but the hot-beds of RW activism are everywhere: Evangelical churches, RW media and the various alt-right groups are the most obvious. Go to a county-western bar and it's there too. We've gone tribal in the worst sense of the word.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.