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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 7

      just noticed a weird thing there used to be a ton of leftist cause areas. you could be a cool leftist by protesting china occupying tibet or by supporting gay marriage or by sending shoes to honduras or opposing the middle east or destroying the sun (long term cause of coal)

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 7

      yes global warming straggles on but it seems like the space of cause areas has (i) contracted dramatically, and especially (ii) become less international in focus

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 7

      my wondering after noticing this is whether (i) theres just been a memetic outcompetition of everything else by identity stuff, and (ii) its reflective of a more general cultural turn inward by the US

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 7

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      I'm wondering if this is an issue similar to what the right experienced after the ascendancy of Reagan, where the fairly diverse array of interests that went into his coalition once popularized became a blob that mostly boiled down to "tax cuts good"
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        1. World's Greatest Dad per Capita‏ @The_WGD Apr 7
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          This seems like the opposite mechanism. Many individual right wingers remained diverse in beliefs, but Republican leadership shrank its Overton Window, hence Ross Perot, etc

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        1. Yosarian2‏ @YosarianTwo Apr 7
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          I think race and identity issues increased in sailence on the left during and as a reaction to the Trump administration? Same way a lot of the mid 2000's left was defined in opposition to Bush's war in Iraq and Patriot act.

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        1.  🐐QuirkyLlama 😾 🎩‏ @quirkyllama Apr 7
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          I'm too young to remember a pre-Reagan GOP, but it doesn't seem like much changed. If anything, under Reagan GOP added Abortion & Guns as core issues that were previously not 100% politically aligned

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        2. George Sudarkoff‏ @sudarkoff Apr 7
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          People tend to clump around polarizing ideas. I think it's probably in part because we make sense of the world by comparison: "I'm this, I'm not that." It creates two poles and over time all other ideas get "attracted" to those poles.

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        3. George Sudarkoff‏ @sudarkoff Apr 7
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          It's also cognitively, psychologically, and metabolically cheaper to belong to a group with a simpler message.

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        1. jonstokes.com‏ @jonst0kes Apr 7
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          This flattening/constriction happened under Trump. People who went to protests during the Trump years were all the same crowd, no matter if it was an immigration protest, an anti-gun protest, or a straight Trump protest. They were all just anti-Trump/GOP protests, in the end.

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