I don’t have much of a problem either way as I don’t think I’ll be engaging in political discussion on this website past this post but it seems like any sort of non-left wing opinions or posts are immediately trashed on here. That’s fine. There’s clearly a more liberal audience here and that’s okay. I just don’t want Lemmy to become a echo chamber for any side and it seems to be that way when it comes to politics already.
Mostly making this post just to drum up discussion as I’m new here.
Haven’t seen a lot of examples of that for many decades.
How far have you looked? If you are siloed among left wing ideologies (brought about by social media algorithms), you might grow to think that all conservative thinkers are morons. Needless to say, there is some good content, but you have to look harder and be willing to look into the “other side” in good faith. Most look at the other side with a hyper negative view.
Jonathan Haidt’s book on this topic is a good read. Also check out his “the coddling of the American mind”
America isn’t the only place were conservatism’s mainstream is lurching towards the extreme, though the Americans do seem to be leading that charge.
In my country, I’m generally considered a centrist (where we do have more a than 2 political parties to choose from), and I certainly don’t live exclusively in a left-wing silo.
I see the right moving further (and faster) from me than the left is, though.
I think it’s a matter of perspective. While there are intelligent conservatives, in America they vote Democrat.
What people refer to as Republican conservatism in the US is not actual cohesive conservative economic ideology, but a bunch of irrational bigoted nationalism. In the US they refer to actual conservatism as centrism.