You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the right.

As to the question of where the danger is coming from, well, Colorado has red-flag laws, so for example if you threaten to blow up police officers with a home-made bomb like the shooter did, in 2021, they might take your firearms away. Unfortunately, Colorado Springs claims to be a '2d amendment sanctuary' and is refusing to enforce that law.

So, tell me, which side lobbies for '2d amendment sanctuary' laws? Seems like a blatant threat from the right - 'never mind those pesky laws, do what you want with your firearms.'

As to drag shows, etc. isn't it great there's freedom of speech in America, we wouldn't want to deny that now would we? And, if the shooter is nonbinary, having been raised by his meth-addicted violent ex-porn star Mormon father who instilled a 'violence solves things' ethos into his son, whose grandfather was mayor of Santee California when there was a school shooting but downplayed it, and later in life became a 2020 election denier, well, I'd say this shooter was raised with a strong right-wing bent. Nonbinary can be right-wing, too.

If you mean the site where the event took place, what more would you have them do than publish warnings and say it's R-rated and so on? Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing wasn't a setup by some right-wingitty types in Texas. And the perpetrator was the parents, full stop.

I support parents right to bring their children to such events. Their child, their choice. And (in the USA anyway, which is the subject of that NY post article), there's freedom of speech. Unlike what exists in Ireland, which as you recall had a blasphemy law on the books for many decades until recently.

Do you support them going to a Mass on Sunday in Ireland? There's groomers up there in dresses, many of them coworkers of convicted pedophiles.

Lecturing from a work of fantasy that has all sorts of nasties in it like rape and murder of infants and mass circumcisions and on and on.

And, as the subject of this thread reminds us, who is threatening the loss of civil liberties here, the likes of the NY post? A Murdoch flagship rag that makes its coin stirring up the MAGAts. Basically an online/print version of Faux news.

Would I take a kid to a drag show? No, probably not. But I wouldn't stop anyone else from taking their kid. For one, little kids won't understand it and its as such a waste of time and money.

But if they found out about and asked to go, after discussion with the kid to confirm, sure off we'd go.

Why do you think its child abuse (unlike, say, rape by the RCC?) Is there a statute against this, or just some phrase you're clutching at?

Most entertainers happen to be 18+ this is **** ridiculous

Is it child abuse?

Under what statute?

Compromise takes two though. One recent peril, rise of populism (Trump and the various others in European politics) are... from the 'right' and claim to be 'conservative.'

Brexit with its enormous damage to the UK came from... the 'right.'

Gun violence in the US as discussed recently in this thread, in a state that despite having 'red flag laws' took place in a city that refused to enforce those laws as its a '2d amendment sanctuary'... all 'right wing' sponsored and supported legislation.

But, let's continue the mental exercise. It's more than a blame game - people's lives are directly impacted by it. For example, the repeal of Roe, driven by the evangelical right and the RCC with its acolytes on the US Supreme Court, is killing women. What kind of compromise have those that advocated for this repeal offered? Incest exemptions? Nope. Rape exemptions? Nope. A national ban on abortion? Yes.

So, how do you get to compromise? I'm not sure it really is possible, you can't trust religious authorities to drive it, and if you continue to erode freedom of speech, (keep an eye on the SCOTUS, they've got a number of free speech cases on the docket coming up), you can't get to compromise and are back to just plain naked power like was shown in the path that got Neil Gorsuch on the SCOTUS.

But if you have examples of the 'right' sharing something that sounds like compromise, do tell. Maybe this is true in Ireland which is much more on the left than the US - to the regret of a number of posters on Boards, but trolls will be trolls. And Ireland benefits from a more modern electoral system, but there is still the pernicious and pervasive influence of the RCC in public life and discourse, and their spokespeople like Fr. Sean Sheehy demonstrate how much compromise the religious right have to offer.

Compromise takes two. Agreed.

The rest of your post is more of the same we've seen here before, the right are awful etc...

A more valuable mental exercise for both sides would be to look at what they do themselves that is so repellent to the other side.

Until that can be happen no compromise will ever be achieved.

Ironically you and your right wing counterparts always assume your own moral high grounds, you're all far too comfortable massaging your own egos to entertain comprise, and why would you when the other side are so terrible?

It's a waste of time trying to reason with people who hold entrenched views it would seem, the majority of people are in the middle ground but it's a relatively quiet place to inhabit, all the noise comes from the fringes sadly.