re: #364 Killgore Trout

The articles I linked to lay out their criteria for qualifying “outrage” and their methodology for quantifying it.

And their quantification showed the conservatives are more outrageously outraged than liberals, so that part is good.

Their definition of ‘hard left’ is probably the most critical part, since an organized hard left in the US basically does not exist (IMO) at any real level of significance. This immediately make all comparisons between what the hard right and hard left in the US are doing extremely suspect.

As a simple illustration, if hard left ideas were in the air as much as hard right ideas, it wouldn’t be at all uncommon to read reports of sitting leftist congressional representatives advocating state seizure of the means of production.