One of the oddest modern realities is that the entire political left, the hard-to-alt right, and the higher-ed sector would ALL object to the basic sentence: "People should be treated equally under the law."
@wil_da_beast630 If you could add up everyone who objected to this you’d have a majority. That’s why our society needs to protect all of us from the majority.
@wil_da_beast630 1) Isn't it important to create a trans-partisan coalition around preserving legal equality , free speech rights etc .. But in that case, if you say the 'entire left' objects to legal equality, you have already excluded a vast constituency.
@wil_da_beast630 2) I think we should distinguish, mere 'equality of opportunity' , which denies structural inequalities, and 'equality of outcome', which denies personal differences and is totalitarian, from ...
@wil_da_beast630 ... from 3) the concretisation of infrastructures of opportunity-creation, which make equality of opportunity real, by addressing structural inequalities through capacity building
@wil_da_beast630 I am quite conservative, so I absolutely agree with the statement. I see a lot of people disagreeing with your first category, and while it may not be true of rank and file people who consider themselves left, the vast majority of those who make the laws definitely object.
@wil_da_beast630 @benshapiro Horseshoe theory
@wil_da_beast630 @benshapiro This is nonsense.
@wil_da_beast630 @benshapiro I think this is because most things in our lives (due to tech revolution) we can get customized - "get it your way" - except politics - it's the only place where you can't always get it your way. Does not bode well for democracy. 50% always pissed off.
@wil_da_beast630 @benshapiro Everyone on the left believes that to be ideal. Just tell us when that starts happening...
@wil_da_beast630 @benshapiro But only the Republican's campaigned to stop that from BEING a law.