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cross-posted from: https://50501.chat/post/54068

Time to break free of traditional political ideological labeling and divisions. Time to abandon old, divisive sociopolitical labels like "liberal" and "conservative".

A new political party based on a vastly, commonly held virtures lends itself to embrace over 66% of Americans, and it clearly embraces progressive principled thinking. In the most ideal American sense of unity, a political party should not be able to be defined or placed as "to the left" or "to the right" of where the Democratic or Republican parties currently are. Just let it exist organically based on present-day principled thinking. The American Progressive Majority.


Originally Posted By u/Atlanticbboy At 2025-03-23 04:38:18 AM | Source


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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My question is: what percentage support all of those? The curse of dimensionality applies here because of the large number of features.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Since most are >50% and many are >75%, the crossover is probably large enough that it won’t make a difference

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Intuitively it would seem like that, but that’s why the curse of dimensionality is a mathematical paradox: its results are not intuitive!

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yep. Even the gun control issue, which is the most conflicted on this thread, isn't a binary. What gun control? Background checks? Magazine restrictions? Firing mode restrictions? Barrel length restrictions? Round size/energy restrictions? Education, training, and/or storage requirements?

90% of people may agree that we need something, but they likely won't agree on what.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

"Even the gun control issue, which is the most conflicted on this thread"

I've long been convinced a lot more Democrats and Progressives could make it much further on other issues if they simply sat down on the 'Gun control' issue. To me it seems like a rallying cry of a wedge-issue that gets used to make sure they don't have to try and address all those other things listed. It also guarantees a spike in gun sales every time they make a public statement about the issue.