But that's not true, is it? Nowhere in this forum have you ever criticized liberals, democrats, or progressives. You and jpl458 are obsessed with all things Trump, conservatives, and republican. You are both dyed-in-the-wool liberals pretending to be moderates.
Pat, Steve, Doc, and I often complain about RHINOs, repubs, and so-called conservatives as being feckless or worse. You never see that coming from the other side, you stick to the party line regardless of facts.
"Some Republicans are Democrats, but no Democrats are Republicans." -Dan Bongino
I haven't here. But I do regularly in other places. I think that extremist on both sides serve the same masters.
We live in a time that is at the end of cycle.
An example of this type of cycle was circa 1900. Where the power of the robber barons was at its peek. Hundreds of thousands of workers were employed by the company, lived in company housing, and got their grub from the company store.
Slavery by any other name.
That era ended with the break up of all those companies. They are determined to keep that from happening now. The way to keep that from happening is by disseminating contempt, and creating division. There are many factors, but right now the primary mechanism for the largest division is Conservative contempt. Not to mention conservative economic policies tend to transfer wealth upwards rather than outward.
One of the things I have learned about the science of propaganda is that the voice of the propaganda, attracts and repels, equally across political ideologies. The voice, not the message.
Conservative propaganda is better organized than Liberal. As I wrote this I decided to do a real research paper on this topic. Right now i have to get back to work.
On the subject of contempt:
No one in our life time has done that as successfully as Donald Trump. Trumps entire platform is based on contempt for Liberals.
There are millions more hard core right wingers than Liberal ones.
Liberal messaging tends to focus on Woke issues. This type of propaganda is almost guaranteed to push people to the right.
Conservatives are much more adept at convincing their constitutes that they are better for the economy, but if you are a student of economics its apparent that, historically speaking, is simply not the case.
Conservatives are better at propaganda which make them more dangerous at this particular moment.
So while we have spent the last 30 years in a perpetual contempt fest, we have done nothing to make any real progress of turning the tide of the extreme transfer of wealth to the very richest on earth. Conservative propaganda even has a branch that claims that the role of the government is to stay out of the business of transferring wealth, at least when it comes to transferring it to the poor or middle class. . When in fact, it is in the business of transferring wealth to the top.