It's just that the premise of this thread is dimwitted and uneducated as fuck. The data is out there
I don't think you understand the premise. You seem to think it's some kind of false equivalency, as if I'm saying that every opinion is equally right.
Opinions are obviously subjective and relative. My entire argument is that if you lean to the left, you're more likely to defend the views of people on the "extreme" left and demonize the views of the entire right based on the actions of the "extreme" right. The same goes the other way around.
My point is proven by everyone who is mistaking this for a false-equivalency argument - as if to say both ideologies are valid - by
doing exactly what I'm saying they'd do: suggesting that the actions of the most extreme people on their side are
defensible because
- look how far to the right the entire spectrum has shifted, the left is actually more centrist than left (as if simply being centrist somehow makes an political view more correct)
- things are "different" "this time", there's "more at stake"
- they're not the "same" because their candidate is X
Predictable (and understandable) rationalization, and I hear it
every single time from the people on the losing side of a presidential election.
And all this squirming and posturing just to avoid admitting the one simple fact that I started this thread to say: protestors are assholes.
More specifically, people who immediately protest a systematically valid and uncontested presidential election are assholes.