Overall, red side wants things to stay the same or go back, and blue side wants things to change. If the gap between them is widening, it's because blue side is trying to change things too rapidly. Red side seems to want to go back to 1950 at the earliest; it doesn't seem to me like they're increasingly backing up into 1800s or earlier. But the blue side is increasingly pushing for things that many are not ready to even consider: children transitioning into other genders, reparation-like policies, socially enforced changes to fundamentals of language. Many reds are still getting used to the last changes, like gay marriage. Society is just not set up to handle constant massive change to traditional mores. You can have one or two things change in a decade and people will adapt, but the current velocity is not sustainable.
FYI trans children are not new and minors have been transitioning in the US for the last 50 years. It's only more recently that it has been turned into a vile political issue by the right.
As a transgender person who was once a child but was not aware of the possibility of transitioning back then, I would have loved the opportunity to do so.
Nice try, but unfortunately I'm one of those people who reads books about topics they disagree with. I've read that book already, and it's disingenuous bordering on a lie to imply that what was happening decades ago to children as cited in that book is at all close to modern full transitions, nor were the motivations the same.
Put your finger on the median democrat line, leave it where it starts in 1994 and remember where republicans are in 1994 and 2017.
There is no question the democrats moved left, republicans followed and then moved right back to where they were. The democrats than moved further and further left.
>You can have one or two things change in a decade and people will adapt, but the current velocity is not sustainable.
You are describing the culture wars that are over. What we reached now isn't so much this. Social factors aren't even a huge consideration. It's about UBI. It's about wealth redistribution. It's about people who ignored advice, got a liberal arts degree putting $50,000 in debt and can only pay the interest payments from their mcjob.
I figure there was a period in time when this political division would turn into a civil war... but it won't.
Imagine the democrats clean sweep the midterms in november.
Imagine the republicans clean sweep the midterms in november.
What do you think happens in either of those cases?
