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Originally Posted by Tom Joad
What a load of complete unmitigated CRAPOLA.
The Republicans have been moving farther and farther to the right for my entire lifetime. They are now a wild eyed, foaming at the mouth, right wing extremist party, And the damned Democrats have been following them to the point that they are now a center right party. Today's Democrats are to the right of where Eisenhower was in the 50's. There is no left in America, and that is the problem.
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You are, as usual, far from correct. Mainstream Dems are correct that the political climate in the US has been moving to the left for some time now. Consider:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...5f6_story.html
The country is getting more diverse, and as the proportion of white voters shrinks, so, too, does the conservative base. As demographics shift, so do political preferences — in this case, toward the left. A close examination of U.S. attitudes in the past decade-plus reveals that the United States is steadily becoming more progressive.
Now, speaking as we are in this thread of polarization, even Obama observed a polarizing approach that Dems have taken to dealng with their political opposition in this "new progressive era":
In order to beat them, it is necessary for Democrats to get some backbone, give as good as they get, brook no compromise, drive out Democrats who are interested in "appeasing" the right wing, and enforce a more clearly progressive agenda. The country, finally knowing what we stand for and seeing a sharp contrast, will rally to our side and thereby usher in a new progressive era.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/0...ocratic-Party#
Does that sound like an approach for exploring common ground and compromise? For his part, Obama's response to it isn't suggesting that they compromise. Obama is simply suggesting that they be nicer about not compromising.