They may be left on social issues, but I guarantee you that the millionaires (and billionaires) running the company, as well as the very well-paid employees, would be very quick to defend status-quo capitalism.

"A college student protested a white nationalist speaking on a college campus - this is worse than 1984 !"

The right-wing has festered an intense disdain for the media for decades now. Trump picking fights with CNN, NY Times, etc. really motivates his base. It's part of his strategy. Attack the messenger.

But I was informed by Dinesh D'Souza that it was the left who were actually the fascists? Because, you know, KKK, 19th-century Democrats, Andrew Jackson, etc. etc. Are you saying that man lied to me??

Yeah, he'll probably now have to take some obscure job like White House communications director.

Can't wait to see what Trumpist sycophant CNN inevitably hires next to appear "neutral."

I'm referring mostly to American politics since 1980, where there has been shifts in support over social policies, but neoliberalism has reigned through Democrat and Republican administrations.

A rock star as the governor of Texas? Please, governing Texas is a job only genius intellectuals like George Bush or Rick Perry could possibly do.

" I see both of the dominant political parties shitting all over people in the name of empathy" - are you arguing that both political parties advocate policies with similar consequences to the less fortunate? Because, as an anarchist (so definitely not an advocate of the Democrat Party), I can still see that there's a…

The comparison to McCarthyism was highlighting GENUINE discrimination on the basis of ideology, in contrast to this faux outrage. How did you not get that?

Two words: confirmation bias.

"Society swings between conservative thought and liberal thought dominance as a matter of form. " The pendulum may swing in terms of cultural differences, sure, but the economic system which perpetuates human greed and selfishness persists through them both.

Intelligence and empathy do not always go hand in hand.

It's funny when right-wingers try to appropriate Orwell as one of their own when he was staunchly socialist and wrote fondly of the anarcho-communist societies of Catalonia during the Spanish Revolution (see also: Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Exactly. If Google decided to fire someone simply because they were conservative (and I'm sure at a large corporation like Google there are plenty of fiscal conservatives), that would obvious be ideological discrimination and I would be very much against that. But this situation is not that.

I'm actually referring to the so-called "intellectuals" of the right who champion an economic system which concentrates wealth into a small number of hands while the rest of us face the choice of toiling away at a lousy job or being impoverished.

The people who endlessly complain about "feelings" and "safe spaces" are often the most emotionally vulnerable babies who retreat to their echo-chambers when challenged by elementary logic and facts.

Exactly. Our society encourages self-interest and greed to the detriment of compassion, empathy, and solidarity. Voicing concern for the needy, the vulnerable, the disenfranchised and challenging the status quo makes you an outsider and open to ridicule and harassment online. The Trump phenomenon has only made this…

The right has done everything in their power to demonize equality. They now view inequality (such as vast income inequality) as a virtue. What has the world come to?

There's an argument to be made that blacklisting someone for their political views is an encroachment on free expression. That was essentially what the McCarthy era and the Red Scare were about. However, if you publish a manifesto with cherry-picked data to create a hostile work environment that violates the company's…