there is an ideological center and two parties to either side of it
that this is all much further right than we both want has no meaning. there is a left, because it is the left-er choice
to make it further left, we show up, we sustain, we iterate
there is no other option, and bemoaning things are so far right has no effective or actionable point, and in fact leads to inaction and stasis
it is like this, because the left doesn't fucking vote
@benroyce
I’d like to take this opportunity to explain shifting the Overton Window and its relationship to getting out the vote. In this paper I will
@StarkRG
@suzannealdrich @benroyce @StarkRG
At this point, I believe that if we just nudge the Overton window slightly more to the right, it will snap around to extreme left.
Looking from an European PoV, the politics in the US has always been a choice between "far right" and “extreme right”.
@airwhale @suzannealdrich @StarkRG
you could say the same about saudi arabia
you might also say that saudi arabia, to move further left, needs to iterate and sustain and inch it's way gradually left
to simply observe the saudi left is further right than the right in europe has no *functional* meaning. it's just looking at the globe and making comparisons that have no impact
well, the same is true of the usa. and it moves further right because the left just can't fucking be bothered to vote
@benroyce @suzannealdrich @StarkRG
Yes, it all needs to be considered within its own context.
@airwhale @suzannealdrich @StarkRG
functionally
your words are valid and true, but more of a structural observation than a functional prescription
to move the usa further left we have to vote, sustain, iterate
it's grueling and a joyless chore, and the payoff is far away
and many people get turned off by that
