(September 15, 2020 at 1:56 pm)Grandizer Wrote: I see this current political reality (whether in the US or here in Australia or elsewhere in the Western world) as, basically, the right reacting with intense indignance against the radical changes brought about recently in terms of cultural attitudes towards such things as abortion, feminism, marriage, racial justice. So atm, they may be generally winning more seats or higher positions of political power, but I see the pendulum of power swinging back to the other side sometime soon, especially that the current younger generations seem to overwhelmingly lean left.
I think the model of the pendulum is too simplistic. The two sides are not roughly equal in fundamental scrupulousness pulling back and forth in a tug of war. It really is a contest where one side Does really think, naively, that being scrupulous and respecting the other side is a strength in itself, while the other side is utterly unscrupulous And respects nothing whatsoever, but happily affect scrupulously and respect to a degree passable to the average level of discernment in the electorate.
So the pull back from the current swing will be long, and will require a sea change in how the currently more respectable side view the other, and will eventually have to be carried out with ruthlessness currently unimagined.
