Elon’s Tweet
Re: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144
What is missing for context is that the Democrats are not the left. Yes, in the US, some of society is more leftist than a few years ago. OTOH, many people are also more right wing than a few years ago. Some even extreme.
The reality is that in European democracies, the Democrats would be a centrist or even conservative party. Left/progressive people are not really represented in the US. First past the post pushes people to extremes to be heard.
Hey, Eric :)
Not to reignite the discussion, but it seems @slatestarcodex [just posted about this](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/which-party-has-gotten-more-extreme). I like him a lot and usually trust his analyses, so I've saved that post for later. I think it may shed some light.
And while at it, I also saw now a couple interesting responses at the time to that original tweet, each defending opposite views: [Paul Graham](https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1519885054960357377)'s and [Kevin Kruse](https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1519743132132380672)'s. I'll come back to that when I have free time, too.
