Quote (Black XistenZ @ Oct 9 2021 10:25pm)
I hope you realize that when looking at ideology and the actual issues (as opposed to things like tone and norms), then scientific studies consistently show Democrats to have moved more to the left in recent years than Republicans moved to the right. :rolleyes:
The overton window grew wider on both sides, but its center, as well as the median voter, moved to the left, not the right.
Anyway, the key development here is that the Trump presidency supercharged and finalized a long-standing trend which saw the parties trade two sets of voters. The "socially liberal economically conservative" type, of which Arnie is a prime example, moved sharply toward Democrats while the "socially conservative economically liberal" type moved sharply toward Republicans.
Socially sure, everybody moved that way, but not economically.
Economically Democrats went nowhere but to the right from the 80's until ~2015, and now they've only slightly moved to the left. The fact that Obamacare was authored by Republicans just a decade earlier and a real public option couldn't even make it through with a Democratic supermajority is testament to that.
Hell, it's considered far too "liberal" to even bring the rates from 2016 back, and the Biden infrastructure plan is laden with boosts to fossil fuels.
So you are wrong because you are cherry picking your data. Democrats still have a long way to go left until they're even close to where they were 30 years ago on economic issues.
This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Oct 9 2021 09:31pm