I mean you're kind of making my point for me. You have to go back to other generations of liberals to find the ones who fought with the kind of intensity my generation of liberals lacked. When I speak about intensity I'm talking about how quickly they cave, and I'm talking about the voters--not the pols. Conservatives blame their pols fo…
I mean you're kind of making my point for me. You have to go back to other generations of liberals to find the ones who fought with the kind of intensity my generation of liberals lacked. When I speak about intensity I'm talking about how quickly they cave, and I'm talking about the voters--not the pols. Conservatives blame their pols for not being extreme enough and they're still pulling them further. Liberals have been moderate in terms of compromise the entirety of my adulthood dating back to 2003. Their voters *and* their pols. The sole issues that liberal voters came out in force on were LGBTQ+ equality and BLM. From 2001 until present.
Correct. But at least you guys put in work while you were young before you became decadent boot-lickers of the low-tax/high-growth model that gave us the economic inequality we live with today. My generation was born into its decadence, and frankly didn't do much when called to national politics until the economic inequality got so bad that it gave us OWS and the police brutality got so bad that it gave us BLM. It was only *after* my generation got slapped in the face with the inequality cultivated by your generation that we collectively got off of our asses and did something. But between the 60's and OWS in '11, liberals let a LOT of things slide in economics, policing, foreign policy, and national culture (guns, etc.). Now we're dealing with the fallout of them not fighting hard enough when these problems were small. Now these ignored problems are enormous.
I mean you're kind of making my point for me. You have to go back to other generations of liberals to find the ones who fought with the kind of intensity my generation of liberals lacked. When I speak about intensity I'm talking about how quickly they cave, and I'm talking about the voters--not the pols. Conservatives blame their pols for not being extreme enough and they're still pulling them further. Liberals have been moderate in terms of compromise the entirety of my adulthood dating back to 2003. Their voters *and* their pols. The sole issues that liberal voters came out in force on were LGBTQ+ equality and BLM. From 2001 until present.
Correct. But at least you guys put in work while you were young before you became decadent boot-lickers of the low-tax/high-growth model that gave us the economic inequality we live with today. My generation was born into its decadence, and frankly didn't do much when called to national politics until the economic inequality got so bad that it gave us OWS and the police brutality got so bad that it gave us BLM. It was only *after* my generation got slapped in the face with the inequality cultivated by your generation that we collectively got off of our asses and did something. But between the 60's and OWS in '11, liberals let a LOT of things slide in economics, policing, foreign policy, and national culture (guns, etc.). Now we're dealing with the fallout of them not fighting hard enough when these problems were small. Now these ignored problems are enormous.
Tbf, when we fight really hard for something everyone calls us progressive socialists that are going to end up destroying the party/country. :shrug:
This sounds like an old guy complaining about kids not doing things like "back in my day". ;D