..I don't even know where to read intelligent center-left takes in 2016. Is anyone even bothering with that? Who's the Left's Yuval Levin?
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Speak not with the footsoldiers to reckon the grand strategem. Leftism is a splendid gilded cage, intricately manufactured.
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Being "left" or "centrist" means signaling your social status by fetishizing a rapidly proliferating # of cliches
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It is entirely true that the people who spend the most time online are the social innovators for this reason
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because exposure to infostream lets them adapt to and spread the earliest memes
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Yes, getting that "trans" is the new "gay" a few weeks before lumpenproles was a palpable victory for any middlebrow
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Ay, but who on that side has self-awareness of the dynamic & argues it serves a purpose beyond pure signaling?
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There is self-awareness in the sense of hypocrisy and self-awareness ~ scrutiny... lots of former, none of latter
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US Liberalism is not a political stance, it's just what's on TV.
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