[fallingfrog]

It is striking that the mainstream positions today would have been considered radical leftism at most points in the past.

If the same pattern holds, then radical leftist positions of today will be again the mainstream positions in the future.

The lag time has been considerable though. I think even into the 90’s the guardian would not have approved of the suffragette’s direct action methods.

In some ways though things have stagnated for almost a century; Bernie Sanders public health care plan is something that was being pushed for a century ago, and the forces of private capital have managed to hold back the tide for a hundred years.

So it might be that my prediction that the radical left of today is the mainstream of tomorrow is totally wrong, and things could actually regress.