Data from a new Gallup survey suggests that close to half of Democrats want their party to move more toward the middle, while more than 40% of Republicans are happy with their party.

  • HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    Asking one person isn’t a good sample size. Read accounts from January 6th convicts who claim to be patriots and real Americans. Have you not heard of Patriot Prayer, which put on events that the Proud Boys attended? It seems like you’re engaging in an anecdotal fallacy where you think your limited experience is definitive.

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      8 days ago

      No obviously I am aware that some far right weirdos would refer to themselves that way, but it certainly isn’t common among the right leaning folk. I talk to many of them quite often. The only time I have ever heard them use “patriot” is when they were doing so mockingly.

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        8 days ago

        You’re moving the goal posts and using a no true Scotsman now. First it was nobody, now it’s some, but it’s not common.

        Your point isn’t even really relevant to the discussion. The point was that you’re using right wing terminology and framing and pretending it’s normal, which is what you admit right wingers do. “Far left agenda” isn’t a term that an educated or knowledgeable analyst would even remotely pretend is applicable to the content of the mainstream media.

        It seems like you identify as a centrist but you speak from a right wing perspective and don’t seem to know what left wing even means. The liberals you probably talk to for context are centrists, not leftists.