Series: Conservatives of Lemmy: What do you think has gone awry in modern society and how might it be constructively addressed? (lemmy.world)

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I'd like to start a series seeking viewpoints from across the political spectrum in general discussions about modern society and where everyone stands on what is not working, what is working, and where we see things going in the future.

Please answer in good-faith and if you don't consider yourself conservative or "to the right", please reserve top-level discussion for those folks so it reaches the "right" folks haha.

Please don't downvote respectful content that is merely contrary to your political sensibillities, lets have actual discourse and learn more about each other and our respective viewpoints.

Will be doing other sides soon but lets start with this and see where it takes us.

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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

I very much agree with you that people need to grow thicker skin and learn to listen. This entire ban thing is causing pillarization and polarization in society. Unless that tide turns, I see that ending in a civil war, all will lose.

However, that thicker skin goes for both sides. Whenever I'm in a more conservative area of the net, I quite quickly get banned for having the wrong opinions. I'm sure the left side started this easybanning but the right side has caught up there.

Also what is not helping is tht the conservative part of US politics has been taken over by actual extremists, in large part helped by polarizing "news" sources like Fox and oan and the such. These sources have shit to do with news and merely exist to rile their base and make people more resentful of "the left" or whatever that it supposed to be.

Now you have trump in there as well, he just had a nice public talk with a guy who wants to stone gays to death.... What am I even supposed to do with THAT?

How is anyone supposed to have a normal conversation anymore when everyone immediately jumps to extremes?

[-] nikaaa@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, jumping to extremes is indeed a problem for serious, honest discussions.

IMO there's just too much money that "news" sources make by being polarizing. They know it increases their view-counts. And to them, that's all that matters.

I think we need neutral, neutrally-financed news sources. Question is just, how do we organize that?

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