FootballFirst
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The pendulum is beginning the swing back to the right.
America's conservative backlash.
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abandonconflict
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The democrat party is pushing the country to the right.
FootballFirst
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Yep, no denying we'll swing back to the left in the next 20-30 years after the markets crash again and we get embroiled in some foreign conflict.
abandonconflict
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No, the democrats will promise a leftward swing, then push to the right like always. There is no left in the US.
GOD HERE
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It's been swinging farther right for the last 100 years, there is no left to swing to.
Dr Kynes
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theres nobody to the left of YOU in the US, but theres lotsa people to the left of me.
abandonconflict
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The only party that is to the left of center is the Green Party but their candidate was arrested enroute to her debate. There are a few greens holding mayoral and state lower house offices in the US though. The democrats are to your left but you're a radical right-wing teabagger.
abandonconflict
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Yeah I'm sure you love it.
Dr Kynes
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ahh the Greens... eco-marxism.
just the sort of organization a Non-Marxist such as yourself might support, what with all their Marxism...
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abandonconflict
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Oh look, kkkynes is calling someone marxist.
ChesusRice
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Gee for some reason though history says that usually happens when a Republican is in office.
Well shit Cheezy, list those times for us. But remember, before the civil right act, democrats were republicans or was it the other way around?
ChesusRice
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Well shit Cheezy, list those times for us. But remember, before the civil right act, democrats were republicans or was it the other way around?
herbert Hoover
george bush
UncleBuck
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When Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg studied the voters of Macomb County, a hotbed of so-called Reagan Democrats – the county gave two-thirds of its votes to John F. Kennedy in 1960, and the same proportion to Ronald Reagan in 1980 — he found that they no longer saw Democrats as working-class champions. “Blacks constitute the explanation for their vulnerability and for almost everything that has gone wrong in their lives,” and they saw government “as a black domain where whites cannot expect reasonable treatment,” Greenberg wrote.
So for a lot of Democrat-turned-Republican voters, “government” was all about black people, Reagan knew. You didn’t have to be racist to thrill to Reagan’s declaration that “government is not the solution; government is the problem,” though it didn’t hurt. Republican strategist Lee Atwater explained exactly how it worked in a now-infamous 1981 interview that was secret for 30 years. Atwater explained how the GOP dialed down its racial rhetoric for fear of alienating white moderates who might buy the GOP’s anti-government crusade, but be uncomfortable with outright racism.
This is Atwater talking to an academic interviewer in 1981, Year One of the Reagan revolution:
You start out in 1954 by saying, “N–ger, n–ger, n–ger.” By 1968 you can’t say “n–ger” — that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites … “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N–ger, n–ger.”
Nice to hear your opinion, but I've yet to meet a progressive that likes a conservative or a republican.
