Comment by Eisenstein
Comment by Eisenstein 2 days ago
> many moderate left positions today would have been considered outlandishly radical in the 90s.
Such as?
Comment by Eisenstein 2 days ago
> many moderate left positions today would have been considered outlandishly radical in the 90s.
Such as?
The fact is that society changes over time and what was unacceptable during one time becomes acceptable in another. This does not indicate a shift to the left, it indicates humanity becoming less intolerant. Are you going to argue that allow black people and white people to marry and repealing miscegenation laws mean that the country shifted to the left?
Are you saying that the Overton window can never move right as long as we maintain more human rights and tolerance than we had decades before whatever the current time period is?
Gay marriage, for instance. In the 90s (and even the 2000s) it was pretty common even for people on the left to come down on the side of "I don't think we should allow gay marriage". Whereas now, it's so firmly within the Overton window that even most of the right thinks gay marriage is fine.