Taking crime and punishment as an example, when I was growing up I got the impression that the right had a really stringent no-tolerance view of criminals. They should be dealt with people being locked up for as long as possible, possibly even killed, and no pampering or rehabilitation, everything is too good for them, they are criminal scum, they made their own bed type stuff. Traditional good vs evil, rooted in black and white and perhaps even religious values.
The left on the other hand were more about idealism, rehabilitation, rebuilding, tolerance, kindness, nuance, certainly not the death penalty. I always assumed this is a result of maybe a higher IQ and a better education to know that people weren't necessary good or evil so much, but more largely victims of circumstance, of upbringing, fucked up brain chemistry, etc. Think Tim McManus from HBO's Oz. Think Scandinavian prison model.
Of course the liberal left is generally what I'm going to side on with most issues, and being outraged, outspoken, indignant are all important tools, and apart of that. We don't want to wallow in a Trumpian nightmare for too long.
But I dunno, when I read all these people saying 'fuck that fucker, fucking piece of shit garbage, fuck him, ostracize him immediately, let him know what a cunt he is'. It's a bit of crazy over-reaction is it not? You think John Stewart says that to his conservative friends? Because I'm going to be John Stewart's conservative friends have more right wing leanings than this fantano guy doing meme-soup videos.
It all just reminds me a bit of the simplistic black and white logic of the baying ninnies spouting for mob justice that I would have always associated with the right. Where is the love, warmth, humor or shades of grey? Why all the bile and hate over the smallest transgression? If that fantano music review guy is now judged to be a piece of shit? Fuck, maybe I'm a piece of shit, maybe you are, are we all pieces of shit if this is the measure now?