Exactly. What the fuck has happened to the left? And we still turn around and out of the other side of our face pretend we’re the rational unbiased ones, and that’s why our policies are better? A pox on both houses, or rather their fringes given that the author has already done the work of demonstrating they are NOT emblematic of liberalism.
Your last point was also excellent. Obviously conservatives have different priorities, if not literally have a different morality in their heads (which recent neurological research has pointed to). But our civilization will inevitably collapse if we cannot accept that with civility, since the ratio of traditionalists to reformist, broadly speaking, has remained the same throughout history. I see people like this as being already half way down the slippery slope to “if you don’t have the same politics as me, you should die” that we saw quite often from both the fascists & so-called “revolutionaries” of the 20th century. And even then, it took much harsher lives then those of a 21st century first-worlder to twist them to that extent.
