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I'm impressed by this visualization of the conflicting beliefs between those on the left and right. It seems fair and useful.
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Residents of one neighborhood, tired of petty criminals loitering en masse at a particular intersection, have started loitering there themselves. They've provided pizza, games, and entertainment to encourage others to hang out on the corner, too. "Positive loitering," they call it. A café nearby offers free tea and coffee to positive loiterers. This is really great—I just love it.
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Chad Dotson is blogging again, though only about UVA sports. If you read Virginia political blogs and don't know who Chad Dotson is, then you make me sad. And, also, old.
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Interfere with social lives? Huh? It’s interesting, but not sure that it’s particularly fair or useful.
Yeah, since when do conservatives not interfere with social lives?
And only 43% of liberals support same-sex marriage? I think their statistics are a few years old.
Regarding “Information is Beautiful: Left vs Right,” I think there’s a whole lot more style than substance there (and it reminds me of my general distaste for the one dimensional political breakdown we so often use).
However, I was amused that the phrase “Survival of the fittest” showed up under the right’s “beliefs” heading.
I think it’s a fair point that both sides seem awfully interested in interfering with people’s social lives. That’s really what social conservatism is all about.
KC, I think that 43% figure might not be too far off, if you separate out those who support marriage from those who support civil unions.
Uh, what part of your social life does the left want to interfere in? Your ability to control your wife?
“I think it’s a fair point that both sides seem awfully interested in interfering with people’s social lives. That’s really what social conservatism is all about.”
But that’s not what this says. Under the left, it specifically says “Interfere with [society] [social lives]” and under the right, it says “Don’t interfere with [society] [social lives].” That is, it says the left is interested in interfering with people’s social lives and the right isn’t.
As for interfering with society, I think the right is traditionally quite interested in interfering with society, specifically to retard change (or to enact an imagined past), whereas the left interferes to support change.
This just seems like a repetition of a lot of vague notions and caricatures about what each side stands for presented in a graphically pleasing way. The “left” in this chart is not my liberalism, though there may be some superficial resemblance.
I suspect a disinterested third party (and certainly a conservative) would say that the left wants to establish new social norms, making people accept marriages between people of the same sex, teaching children in schools that they need to tolerate and even celebrate social norms that run counter to the values that their parents would choose to instill in them, undermining society’s very definition of what constitutes life, cheapening the very fabric of society.
You and I obviously see each of those issues in a different light than as I’ve just portrayed it, but I can understand that perspectives.
This illustration is far too elaborate. it can be more simply stated thus: Conservatism is the belief that hell is necessary.
I’ll buy that, too. :)
Seems 90% of both sides support unmarried sex. Bob McDonnell may be doomed.