an incredibly simple solution to this is approval voting, where you can vote for as many candidates as you want to like in St Louis and Fargo. It tends to elect moderates, and would basically obliterate two-party domination.https://electionscience.org/press-releases/st-louis-voters-use-new-approval-voting-system-in-march-primary-election/ …
"These new Puritans of the left, though (or perhaps because) they are more secular than earlier progressives, are far more extreme."https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/03/27/religious-fervour-is-migrating-into-politics …
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People are out there looking for esoteric solutions when a really effective one is right under our noses.pic.twitter.com/lbdYLqrV31
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Sovereign Individual (1997) sort of predicted this.pic.twitter.com/iLc48AevZ0
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Moral absolutism seems to be very enticing regardless of whether there is a written doctrine or not
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But why did the cartoonist draw the right on the left and the left on the right?
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The speakers are facing toward us, so from their POV they're on the opposite sides.
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Christian Authoritarianism has at least a theoretical limit.
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No, not really. Those who successfully convince others that they speak for God have been able to justify literally anything. They can make the ends always justify the means, and nothing beats the ends of classical theism right?
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in the 60s the left included people like Malcolm X and Fred Hampton i just want a livable climate and for trans people to be allowed to exist guess that makes me “more extreme”
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