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.
Any data about the ideology of Americans is fundamentally bunk because
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Americans have incoherent and conflicting ideologies like "moderate" and "apolitical", and
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The entire acceptable political spectrum in the US is capitalism with racism on one side and capitalism with more racism on the other.
Whenever I've talked beyond surface level who describes themselves as "moderate", most of the time what they mean is that they're alienated by both the republican and democratic parties. But since their conception is that the entire political spectrum is only the 2 parties, they assume "I must be somewhere in the middle" even if their actual beliefs are much further left than the democrats.
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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"
Morning Consult surveys show the declining share of Americans identifying as liberal has grown the moderate middle
yep, no other possibility. if they're not liberals they must have become moderates!
"less liberal" really just means "more centrist" (and being more liberal lol)
