The Great Shift in American Values
Good point here. The United States has shifted so far to the right that the values that were held almost universally when I was a boy are now considered left-wing.
Making sure people don’t starve is a good example, but so is environmentalism. In the 1960’s, virtually everyone favored government-led efforts aimed at reducing pollution and taking care of the world around us more generally. Now this is variously regarded as anti-capitalist, tax and spend, over-regulation, globalist–all wrapped around a weird and unholy reverence for that controversial thing called “science.”
Ewww. Can those people be trusted?