• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    it really feels like it’s at a boiling point though right now. World governments have all shifted more to the right on average than they have in the last 80 years.

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      2 months ago

      governments have all shifted more to the right on average

      it appears to be the case. though afaict none of it appears to be organic.

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      2 months ago

      Because the right offers people stability, authority, etc. People like that.

      They don’t like left because it’s too vague and complicated to understand their points of view.

      Trans people = bad is a lot easier for the average person to understand, than explaining to them what a transsexual person is and isn’t, and the various types of trans/queer identities. That shit requires a dictionary of trans terminology and hours of time to understand.