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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5458238" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-tweeted-my-cartoon-woke-progressive-left-wing-media-right-viral-twitter-politics-culture-liberal-center-11651504379[/URL]May 2, 2022&quot;I was out for a walk last Thursday when <a href="https://www.wsj.com/topics/person/elon-musk" target="_blank">Elon Musk</a> tweeted a political cartoon that I created in August 2021. It received hundreds of thousands of retweets and more than 1.5 million likes. The stick figure in the middle depicts me, a center-left liberal in 2008, and how the ground had shifted under my feet by 2012 and 2021.At the outset, I stand happily beside “my fellow liberal,” who is slightly to my left. In 2012 he sprints to the left, dragging out the left end of the political spectrum along and pulling the political “center” closer to me. By 2021 my fellow liberal is a “woke ‘progressive,’ ” so far to the left that I’m now right of center, even though I haven’t moved.&quot;[ATTACH=full]409086[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5458238, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-tweeted-my-cartoon-woke-progressive-left-wing-media-right-viral-twitter-politics-culture-liberal-center-11651504379[/URL] May 2, 2022 "I was out for a walk last Thursday when [URL='https://www.wsj.com/topics/person/elon-musk']Elon Musk[/URL] tweeted a political cartoon that I created in August 2021. It received hundreds of thousands of retweets and more than 1.5 million likes. The stick figure in the middle depicts me, a center-left liberal in 2008, and how the ground had shifted under my feet by 2012 and 2021. At the outset, I stand happily beside “my fellow liberal,” who is slightly to my left. In 2012 he sprints to the left, dragging out the left end of the political spectrum along and pulling the political “center” closer to me. By 2021 my fellow liberal is a “woke ‘progressive,’ ” so far to the left that I’m now right of center, even though I haven’t moved." [ATTACH type="full" alt="mfl.jpeg"]409086[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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