#neverliberal #nevermarxist
Given the way politics gets reported these days, it's easy to conclude that the widening gap is the result of Republicans become more extreme in their views. That is, after all, a mantra among Democrats and the press. The GOP is the party of racist, sexist, xenophobic, right-wing extremists, we hear over and over again, while Democrats are but humble centrists.The Pew data, however, make it clear that the shift toward the extreme has happened among Democrats, not Republicans.This can be seen in dramatic fashion when you look at where the center of each party was in 1994, and where it is today. Pew used a 10-item scale of political values to determine ideological purity among those who claim affiliation with the two parties. The results show that while the Republican center moved only slightly to the right over the past 23 years, the center of Democratic part shifted far to the left.
What's really sad in all of this, is the GOP has never actually represented the Conservative Right, merely played lip service.So the question is, what was the measure used?Considering how far left the party drifted left after Reagan, or before that, after electing Nixon.This truly is encouraging, in that the divide exposes just how tiny a faction the far left Dim party has become.What I find interesting in the questions involved, is not a one was based in Constitutional awareness, or even remotely related, it was all based on "Feelings".T, check out page 5, regarding space. I have always suspected this, where libs are cowards, see safety in numbers and fear us independent types that prefer to be as far away from the deplorable' as possible.http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/10/05162647/10-05-2017-Political-landscape-release.pdf
“Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman’s right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state.”
What is amazing is how both parties have ignored where the American people are. I have been following politics since the mid 60's and it is telling where democrat and republican run from as there as philosophy. Those democrats elected are LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Obama. The one thing they had in common was they ran as "moderates", even LBJ and Obama. The GOP has had Nixon, Reagan, GHW Bush, George W Bush and Trump. They all ran as conservatives although some of these are not true conservatives. It is all very clear to me and a majority of the American people. However, the clowns inside the beltway refuse to acknowledge reality.