Does reality have a left-wing bias?

My research and life experience have taught me that it does. So being 'bi-partisan' would make me dishonest.

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I think it's more that what we consider left-wing is really sort of centrist. Folks on the right keep moving further to the right, and they call anybody who doesn't a commie socialist lefty fascist.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@LordShadowfire According to opinion polls, most people (UK and America) are 'left' on economic issues, whatever their actual voting intention. There is something to be said for the media circus being an abstraction.

MartinII · 70-79, M

@LordShadowfire I think that’s missing the point. In general, everyone moves to what we think of as the left over time. “Progressive” legislation is rarely repealed. The Conservative Party in the UK, or many of its members and leaders, hold views which would have been regarded as left wing a few decades ago. But occasionally you get a reaction to this trend by conservatives who feel they are not listened to, and this can take unpleasant forms. Nazism and Trumpism are examples.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@MartinII I sincerely hope that you're right. This movement, to put it generously, threatens everything good about America.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@MartinII It depends on what you mean. The story of the 80s, 90s and 00s was that the right won the war on economics but the left won the war on culture.

MartinII · 70-79, M

@Burnley123 Yes, good point.