The oblate spheroid finally has an audience:
HopeHoops (38,085 posts)
1. The more they head to the right, the better it is for us.
au contraire, the more the Democrats head to the left, the better it is for us.
nadinbrzezinski (107,826 posts)
2. Yeah and talking to this gentleman
He's a republican because dad was one...and the tea party and radicalism, has made this pretty apolitical man have a political wake up call... They keep going right, this gentleman, and many like him...will leave the GOP.
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Text provided in case one thinks it's a jumping frog.
madinmaryland (49,432 posts)
3. Yeah. Voting rules can be really ****ed up, which gives you a choice between a nut job and a less of a nut job.
That is the result of 30 years of the reaganite assault on democracy.
nadinbrzezinski (107,826 posts)
4. This is prop 14 in action
Has zero to do with Reagan. This was passed by Californians, and I suspect it will not work as expected. It's an effort to curb radicals on both sides.
And regardless, I would not call a moderate repub a nut job, an endangered species yes, but not a nut job.
For the record, there are races where two democrats made it to the ballot from the primaries. One case locally where an occupier made it to the ballot.
And more:
tama (5,657 posts)
6. It ain't stretching
The more they head to the right, the more center moves to the right, and the more the left moves to the right.
The party politics is a falangue.
And those who refuse to be part of that game stop voting, some start occupy movements, ecocommunities etc. but most just drop out, stop following party politics and keep on living.
Telly Savalas (9,784 posts)
8. No it's not
1. When they win (and 2010 provides evidence that they can still win even while pushing hard in the wingnut direction) the policies they implement are even worse.
2. The void they leave in the not-so-far right gets filled by Democrats who's big tent starts posting more stakes in conservative terrain. It's difficult to argue that this hasn't happened over the last 40 years.
3. It's undemocratic. So long as one of the two major parties is completely out of touch, it means that any sane voter only has one potential candidate to vote for in each contest. The absence of a legitimate choice undermines democracy.
The GOP may have short-term defeats when they overstep their bounds, but it's their willingness to push the envelope ideologically that has led to the disasterous trend to the Right we've seen over the last 35 years.
freshwest (17,272 posts)
5. My only difference with your assessment is that the same actors who were involved with...
The Business Coup are still running the GOP as they always have. We are rehashing the Thirties right now and can't escape it. The outcome will depend on whether the public can withstand the fascist coup that the GOP represents.
We've been battered with Cold War propaganda to make sure we never looked at anything other than 'all-Murikan' Christianity and Capitalism, then years of right wing religion, and complete media domination by these same people.
Wipe all the talking points, brand names and lipstick off the GOpig and there it is underneath, as it always was. I feel no reason to give these guys a free pass or give this pig a kiss. JMHO.
nadinbrzezinski (107,827 posts)
7. And in the meantime
They are leaving many of their own behind.
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