08-13-2017, 05:51 PM
Bob, I never claimed to not be partisan. The question is what party. I don't really identify with any party at the moment [my recent affiliation change is due because Florida is a closed primary state--I hope I do not have to explain how closed primaries work] but I would still call my over all political philosophy classical liberal, which has lately been championed most strongly by the Libertarian Party, though I'd not register for a third party due to close primary state issues.
As for keeping secrets. I used the word "here" in that passage. If Galen wants a more detailed Kinserian analysis he knows how to PM me. As do you. Though I doubt you'd like my analysis very much. I imagine like my mother you see the current ideological and cultural struggle in shades of 1968, I see it differently. Let's just say that I think that if what passes for a Left calls everyone to the right of say Hillary Clinton a Nazi, eventually real Nazis will show up, and they will be bringing a much larger mass with them then they otherwise would have had.
As to PBR's cringe worthy propaganda--I expect that from the likes of him.
I do note that you seem to conclude that the Democratic Party represents the Left an the Republican Party the Right. I would argue that neither party accurately reflects either. And never really did. Unlike most European Countries, American parties are not particularly ideological being large tents, often with multiple factions and ideologies competing.
As or the post-Nixon White House oscillation, It precedes Nixon. That oscillation has existed since the end of WW2. I would argue that there is a regular cycle of anti-establishment elections going back before even then. I would not call it a bug of the system, rather it is a feature.
I have far more in common with left leaning libertarians than I do with right leaning authoritarians. (Though I would usually call most of those left leaning libertarians degenerate scum, and to their faces no less.) On the political compass while the left-right axis gets lots of play, it seems to me that the emerging dynamic that isn't paid attention to, and is starting to be is the authoritarian-libertarian axis.
Perhaps Boomers are in an industrial age time warp. The left-right axis dominated the industrial age.
As for keeping secrets. I used the word "here" in that passage. If Galen wants a more detailed Kinserian analysis he knows how to PM me. As do you. Though I doubt you'd like my analysis very much. I imagine like my mother you see the current ideological and cultural struggle in shades of 1968, I see it differently. Let's just say that I think that if what passes for a Left calls everyone to the right of say Hillary Clinton a Nazi, eventually real Nazis will show up, and they will be bringing a much larger mass with them then they otherwise would have had.
As to PBR's cringe worthy propaganda--I expect that from the likes of him.
I do note that you seem to conclude that the Democratic Party represents the Left an the Republican Party the Right. I would argue that neither party accurately reflects either. And never really did. Unlike most European Countries, American parties are not particularly ideological being large tents, often with multiple factions and ideologies competing.
As or the post-Nixon White House oscillation, It precedes Nixon. That oscillation has existed since the end of WW2. I would argue that there is a regular cycle of anti-establishment elections going back before even then. I would not call it a bug of the system, rather it is a feature.
I have far more in common with left leaning libertarians than I do with right leaning authoritarians. (Though I would usually call most of those left leaning libertarians degenerate scum, and to their faces no less.) On the political compass while the left-right axis gets lots of play, it seems to me that the emerging dynamic that isn't paid attention to, and is starting to be is the authoritarian-libertarian axis.
Perhaps Boomers are in an industrial age time warp. The left-right axis dominated the industrial age.
It really is all mathematics.
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