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Originally Posted by Sumac
The funniest thing is that Left claim that it is Rights who moved further to the Right.
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Yeah, that's total bullsh*t too. If anything the Conservatives have gotten a LOT more liberal over the years.
When I was a kid, it wasn't uncommon to hear a Conservative say out loud that gay people should be locked up and/or beaten to death. Now, even if they don't love the idea, you're far more likely to hear them say something like, "Well, I don't get it... but I guess they're not hurting anybody."
As fewer and fewer people are still holding onto religion, you're naturally seeing conservative values become divorced from the draconian Biblical type of conservatism. When being a "Republican" and being a "Christian" had to be 1:1, you saw a lot more ugliness coming out of the conservatives because they were still parroting whatever they'd read in their thousands-of-years-old books of fairy tales.
As much of that has gone away, people are mostly conservative for reasons of economics and self-defense. Common Sense Stuff. It all comes down to wanting to keep the money you've worked for, and wanting to keep drugs and violence away from places where people are raising kids. That's modern-day "conservatism". Some people are still anti-abortion, but again, that's mostly a holdover from the strict religious types. Like with being gay, most conservatives look at abortion as a personal choice issue; "Do what you want but don't necessarily expect me to agree with it."
The Liberals, on the other hand, are getting farther and farther Left every day and are seemingly no longer living on the same planet as everyone else.
Basically, everyone has gotten more Liberal in recent years, but the Liberals have gotten VERY Liberal. I think it has something to do with narcissism, and needing to be "against the Right" as a perpetual state of being. Basically, "If people on the Right are getting more Liberal, we need to be REALLY Liberal! If conservatives are gonna start being okay with gay marriage, we need to start talking about trans stuff with 4-year olds!" And so on.