This is, of course, the exact opposite of what happened, but whatever. Musk's gonna Musk.
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Feels like linear analysis always relies on cherry-picking of issues.
Depending on which lens you apply and to which topics, the entirety of society could be said to have moved left, right, up, down, in opposite-colored spirals...
Except usury, which is always up, up, up.
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There's been a fair bit of analysis done on this. On most metrics US society has moved right, and even the left has moved right. There are always outliers, of course, but that's the general trend and where the mass of the "left" and "right" are.
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this is true even of some "social" issues, such as abortion, where rights have been consistently lost for decades now (ever since I've been tracking.) Gay marriage is the big win, gender equality hasn't shifted in decades, blacks are losing voting rights.
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Point being the debate is constantly framed as if it's a question of which Twitter debate team gets shouted down more in public, at best a tertiary issue in terms of the overall thrust of society.
Almost all other issues downstream of re-feudalization of society.
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agreed, though I think the social issues are being lost too. But the social issues are used as a way to get people to vote for politicians who will fuck them over economically (this is true on both the right and the "center left".) (The left has no power in the US. None.)
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