Quote (Horford @ Sep 19 2018 07:22pm)
Well i'm glad you now suddenly find my sources credible as you are citing them :rolleyes: the language in that quote you posted says Liberalism is contuining to gain on, or "catch up" with conservatism. Did you ignore the first graph in that gallup link? In the past quarter century, americans' liberal viewpoints are up by 9 points, while conservative viewpoints are down 1 point...
I never one time said your sources weren't credible. I said that if all you have is a single survey study to discuss, and not a larger overarching study, that i'll pass. I said that because its not a fruitful conversation nor was it really very on topic of Kavanaugh.
However, you were the person who brought up the original point of "more liberals" in an attempt to say the USSC should reflect them, demographically. I asked what reason you had to think this, because I don't believe that more of the country is liberal than conservative. you seem to be right that liberals are gaining, something that only slightly surprises me given technology's effect on the political spectrum and polarization, not to mention the current president. but you're wrong about the overall demographics, you're wrong that the USSC should be demographically set, you're wrong that it should have more liberals for "reasons", and even if you were right that it should be demographic it would still be 5-4 conservative.
I suppose now that you've brought a couple sources we could talk about how more people are liberal, maybe how more young people are liberal. but once I mention that more people are political today due to polarization, and more young people fall into the liberal category, is there anything more to say?
This post was edited by thesnipa on Sep 19 2018 07:31pm