It’s pretty bad on both sides of the spectrum, the tactics and tone of voice are different. But both right and left are just point scoring non stop, directly or indirectly. This thread has some fine indirects too for instance. Every piece of info, every discussion is the same shit with people not really listening, lots of them not even realising that their opinions are so heavily influenced by the way they perceive the messages,the message and the opposing wings opinion. Is it from the “others” then i immediately oppose it, that type of thinking.
There’s a level of ignorance and indoctrination on a level I ve never seen before, divide and conquer tactics and people just go along with it, left and right.
I completely agree that both sides of the spectrum are just as bad as one another when it comes to point scoring.
However, I will say this, less than 6 years ago I would have considered myself a liberal because in my mind being a liberal means to stand for free speech, it means to stand up for what is right and what is just, it means to listen and debate and refute points with logic and intelligence but after watching the left implode upon itself and trying to censor conversation and police language, trying to ban people and silence voices rather than debate them (even if they are hateful ones, they disagree with) I have to say, it's pretty hard to consider myself liberal these days.
I am more of a centrist now, I find both sides are just as ridiculous as one another when it comes to resorting to cheap tactics, however I would be a complete liar if I said I didn't find the political correctness and virtue signalling of the left to be far more dangerous in terms of social interaction. (Not to mention annoying.)
The far right is easy to combat, I mean, nobody likes blatant racists, white supremacists or any other group such as that, nobody who is sane anyway.
However, the far left hides behind "tolerance" and "inclusiveness" to mask their shady political goals, and they hide behind a sense of virtuous behaviour to hide the reality of their own intolerance and the second anybody calls them on it, they swarm upon them and use silencing tactics.
In the 90s it was the American conservative right that were trying to censor speech and ban things that would go against their puritan vision for the world, sadly now, it's the left which is resorting to these tactics, it feels like a cult in many ways.
Obviously I know not everybody on the left feels like this and the same goes for the right, sane people do exist on both sides, sadly, the minority of these sides hijack the conversation and often are amplified the most, therefore putting an easy image at the forefront to hate.
At the end of the day, we see what we want to see, I am probably just as biased as anybody, I just wish people would accept that sometimes you will disagree with someones views and it's ok not to immediately assume the worst about them. (like in this case with Lucas.)