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This went over my head entirely, can you explain what I assume is a fine meme
the Overton window is a concept that politicians only do what is "acceptable", if you push further and further in a direction, things that were considered unacceptable in one epoch are now considered acceptable in another.
In the meme the Overton window is drifting extremely right extremely quickly (illustrated by the car) - implying that things that were unacceptably too far right are now considered more acceptable
It’s probably also because I’ve misused the meme format, as the meme implies a choice from your POV. I was saying ‘me and my friends have broadly been having the same political discourse which is balanced (the straight road), while the Overton window appears to have taken a handbrake turn to the right, of late’. Apols if I’ve butchered a meme but I couldn’t think of a better image at the time. :)
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