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Jerry Seinfeld Was Right About The ‘Extreme Left’ Ruining Comedy
Any self-proclaimed liberal who got mad needs a history lesson about sitcoms
We’re living through terrible sociopolitical times right now.
It has gotten to the point where people are so concerned with having their “liberal” or “conservative card” revoked by their like-minded peers that all we do is virtue signal.
We fall in line with the opinion of the day. Because if we see anything wrong with our side — and have the nerve to say it — the other side will seize on it. And our own side will abandon, if not cancel us.
Sticking to the party line has basically brought us to gridlock. We can’t make sense of anything. We lose the nuance in just about everything. And there’s no way in hell we can ever come to real long-term solutions on pressing, if not urgent issues, such as homelessness, inequality, the cost of housing and climate change.
As one not-completely-hypothetical example —
As a liberal (I guess that’s how I’d be classified on the basis of my largely far left-of-center beliefs), I sometimes hesitate to comment on the sad state of many of our nation’s cities. Because, if I do, this helps fuel the false conservative narrative that American cities are…
