You clearly don't understand the Overton window. If you did, you wouldn't say both sides do it, because that's nearly impossible to do when your goal is preservation. You can't use the status quo as one side of the Overton window. The right would have to be pushing for something outside the realm of the norm. For example, if the right were to use the Overton window, when the left says, ban on guns, the right would say, lets mandate gun ownership. That's how that would work. The closest thing I can think of in that regard is Trump's wall. It took a democrat to bring the Overton window to the right.

Now that we've established that you don't know what you're talking about, do you really believe those politicians are setting the priorities based on their own ideals or the ideals of their financial backers? I'll give you a hint: It's the latter. Outside of Manchin, give me one person who isn't walking in lockstep with the democratic party. How is that even possible? It's because their base, who are a bunch of non-thinking ideologues (hey there), wants to feel like they are making a positive change, and their financial backers have a superman complex and believe they can save the world (while making themselves rich).

I will make a concession that I don't really think we are fighting Marxism, and those that advocate it are a bit misinformed. But you, sir, are not doing yourself any favors by listening to the words coming out of their mouths and treating it like facts. They are a bunch of liars who make policy to benefit themselves, and you're a sucker for giving them an inch of credibility. Also, I find it telling who you chose as the truth tellers. Lol.

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