I was just called "radical left"

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

74. That Overton Window

The Overton Window has been dragged far to the right, in recent decades, and it still seems to be moving in that direction. ShrubCo came along, and I thought, "Well, they can't get any more right wing than this, surely." But then there's Palin and the Tea Party. "Wow," I thought, "What a bunch of kooks. They can't possibly go more to the right, this time." But, no. Now we have Trumpists, the Alt-Right, the Neo-reactionaries, the Dark Enlightenment, and just on and on. It's like that Simpsons parody of Schoolhouse Rock. The Amendment-to-be is ratified, and the floodgates are opened for all the kooks. A bomb-throwing anarchist caricature runs up and breaks the fourth wall, going "Whoop whoop!" to the camera. The other side keeps rebranding itself as more and more extreme, and our culture keeps accommodating them, and the Overton Window just keeps moving in their direction.

Which means that pretty much all of us here might readily be called radical leftists by any random person-on-the-street. We're all in this together. I sorta wish our side could stop, with the fighting among ourselves.

Why are some scared of it? We lose and keep losing, the other side keeps winning, no matter how lunatic they become. That's scary. We're left looking for solutions, trying to figure out where the problem lies. We know our ideas are good, so WTF? Why do we keep losing? How much more to the right can they drag that Window? There's some scary stuff, here. I suspect they're afraid we'll keep losing and losing, with horrifying results for society. It is scary.