You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more
I wouldn't say I agree with this, but there is a whiff of truth to it. And I think it's worth trying to understand the point of view of people who feel this way, if we want to decrease polarization.https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/1087410248531496961 …
Perhaps a correct version would be "We want to be independent of the government. Cars, guns, and home-schooling increase our independence. But because liberals don't want as much to be independent of the government, they only see the downsides of these three things."
Still more correct would be to say that liberals and conservatives want to be independent of the government in different ways. (E.g. being a slave to medical debt is not exactly independence.) But now the ideas are getting too long for a tweet.
I get your point, but “cars reduce dependence on the government” is just an utterly bizarre claim. The infrastructure required, plus geopolitical machinations to secure fuel?
Perhaps the difference in the types of independence prized by the right and the left is partly one of time scale.
Polarization increases with state power because more choices become binary - for or against government policy. Smaller government creates room for more individual liberty and choices.
Conservatives hated automobiles first when they contributed to the dissolution of the nuclear family. Liberals celebrate independence granting bikes. Homeschoolers are a minuscule percentage. So what we’re left with is a dressed up way of pointing out liberals don’t like guns.
Perennially surprised that advocates of gun control never accompany their propositions with concrete, reciprocal proposals for how government will be made less tyrannical.
There’s no need. It’s not relevant. The 2nd amendment has never, not once, been used to rein in governmental behavior. What has? The first amendment. Thus efforts by the current regime to delegitimize the press, while stroking 2nd amendment zealotry.
Automobiles depend on government built and maintained roads Just like... Trains and subways depend on government built and maintained tracks. Driving isn't an act of freedom. It's an activity you do when you live in suburban or rural areas because there isn't an alternative.
Most US roads were built during the great depression by a gov intervening to give people jobs. US car companies, makers of dodge & ford trucks, ultimate freedom symbols, benefited from a massive bailout under Obama. There's nothing independent about cars or the car industry.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
