To paraphrase Chomsky, the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion poll questions and allow very lively debate within that spectrum. No doubt Yang is creaming his pants over these polling results.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The data paints a crisp picture of asymmetrical polarization, as Democratic voters drifted toward the middle and Republican voters shifted further to the right.

    So, even accepting their interpretation of the data, the Right has moved right to become Extra Right and the "Left" has also moved right to become Centrists. How exactly does this show asymmetrical polarization and not a (not so slow) slide into fascism?

    Oh of course never mind, "[because] wokeness, the police and left-wing activist trends that get more play on the left than are actually warranted"