At what age did you grow out of fringe politics? 21 here.
>>134842450
lunatic fringe...
>pic related
Just shortly before I realized that trying to be as average as possible every respect, in what appears to be some kind of strange right-wing-hipster trend, isn't going to make me content. I'm allowed to have ideas that some may consider extreme, and it doesn't have to injure my relationships with other people so long as I recognize the right of other people to disagree.
Hopefully /pol/ residents can realize this before asserting that voting third party should warrant being institutionalized/executed. That being said, I'm still waiting for my fiscal liberal/social conservative party to get into a good swing.
>>134842450
Centrism is the idea that the average of two wrongs is a right.
>>134842450
Zogbot status-quo apologist detected.
>tfw no bitcoins to fund a political assassination
>>134843472
Centrism is the radical idea that we should implement policies that make sense instead of partisanship.
Dumb brainlets
Be me
>Born '88 grew up during prosperous 90's
>Saw everything do a 180 on 9/11 at the start of my teens
>Developed liberal views during Bush Era and strong anti war
>Age 20 voted Obama in '08
>2011 discovered Obamas drone program and his shilling of TPP, started flirting with libertarianism
>2012 voted Ron Paul but was okay with Obama
>2015 I have a career and get taxed hard and can't afford to keep my wife on my insurance plan thanks to Obamacare
>Secretly jumped onto the Trump train
>Became a new fag on pol
>Went from being liberal to libertarian right and now flirting with ethno nationalism.
>>134842450
17
What woke me up was that some of my underlying assumptions were without question wrong. Populists and extremists on both the left and right rely on you believing that things are bad and getting worse when the exact opposite is currently true. Things are good and getting better.
>>134844270
Inequality is almost getting at a level where it will seriously start affecting social cohesion and most of the world is plagued with huge debts that the current economic system can't sustain.
Things are getting better for the poorest (living on less than 1$ a day) and the richest(mostly those living off capital gains), the upper-middle and below are getting fucked.
>>134844223
>23
Gas all the kikes
It's the next natural step
>>134844270
>Inequality is almost getting at a level where it will seriously start affecting social cohesion
The evidence of this being? I prefer less inequality but I don't think we're nearly at that point.
>most of the world is plagued with huge debts that the current economic system can't sustain
Well obviously it can otherwise lenders would be loading off the countries debt they own.
>the upper-middle and below are getting fucked
Upper and middle have done far better than the poor what are you talking about? Technology and trade has created tremendous opportunity for those with qualifications.
>>134845495
>Well obviously it can otherwise lenders would be loading off the countries debt they own.
Not govt. debt, private.
>Upper and middle have done far better than the poor what are you talking about?>>134844743
>(living on less than 1$ a day)
The middle has been stagnant since the 80-90s, with some rare exceptions in the top 5%-10%.
Social mobility is also way worse than during the post WWII-1980 period.
http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/assets/2015/07/fsm-irs-report_artfinal.pdf