when did liberals start thinking “move the overton window left” meant “bait people into vooting blue with false promises of half-baked vaguely left wing ideas”?
I’ve gotten to the point that I’ve stopped trying to understand liberals. I nearly always put “Rhetorical question:” at the beginning of a sentence if I ask something like “Why are liberals like this?”
@questauthority mentioning the Overton window is a pretty good bit even if it isn’t actually a bit and “question” is trucated.
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It just became a way of admitting to their being all talk, but that being good actually. Not even incremental material change, just incremental change in the “discourse”, which will (if you’re a good voter) lead to it.
when did liberals start thinking “move the overton window left” meant “bait people into vooting blue with false promises of half-baked vaguely left wing ideas”?
I’ve gotten to the point that I’ve stopped trying to understand liberals. I nearly always put “Rhetorical question:” at the beginning of a sentence if I ask something like “Why are liberals like this?”
@questauthority mentioning the Overton window is a pretty good bit even if it isn’t actually a bit and “question” is trucated.
Their account is visible to the public so it’s a bsky link. Bio…
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It just became a way of admitting to their being all talk, but that being good actually. Not even incremental material change, just incremental change in the “discourse”, which will (if you’re a good voter) lead to it.