It's amusing that most of the child commenters assume that you switched from left to right, while you were (intentionally) neutral about that.
How many Right-Wing beliefs could you hold 10 years ago that are remotely close to anything Left-wing today?
I cant think of anything
But there is definitely a trend of people who considered themselves center-left leaning 10-20 years ago feeling politically homeless as the left has pushed away from them and embraced some more radical ideas
What we are actually seeing is center-right people feeling homeless and joining the Democrats, or at least no longer seeing themselves as Republicans. Bill Clinton shifted the Democrats a good distance to the right and in the time since he left office, it’s been more a very, very gradual retreat back to more traditional positions of the left. Don’t mistake campaigning or messaging for actual party policy.
Embracing equity of outcome rather than equality of opportunity
All I know is that for a lot of people that I've spoken to they used to vote for leftist parties, and now they think those parties don't represent what they want anymore
The reason you never see anyone offer support for this is because of cancel culture, by the way. People are not going to state publicly which of their beliefs or opinions disagree with the current cultural shifts because large groups of people have proven they will target you, try to get you fired, try to get SWAT called to your house, and other such stuff
There is no upside to sharing potentially volatile political beliefs and some pretty serious potential downside
And yes, a lot of that behavior is coming from people with very vocal leftist attitudes
Ah! It could be we are talking about slightly different demographic groups here… Gen Z types are not happy with the Democrats because they don’t see them as progressive enough. That is a real problem, and I suspect what could happen over the next decade is a party split like what’s happening in the Republicans - something like has already happened in Germany between SPD and Greens. In Germany, progressives 40+ still mostly vote SPD; their kids vote green. I see the same thing happening with democrats- my generation will mostly remain with the Ds, the younger people are less partisan and don’t understand why parties exist and thus they are eager for something different.
Really? I've seen this my whole life from political rulers. They start campaigning for something outrageous that the people and their voters absolutely do not want. While at the same time saying that they don't really mean it and nothing is actually going to change. A few years later they have implemented the hated policy and say "Of course, we said we were going to do it from the beginning!".
Drives me nuts that people fall for it every time. When politicians say they're going to do something awful, they will! You might even see yourself or your children sent to war.
Support for war, less support for body autonomy/ informed consent, Pro censorship?