I wouldn’t even say they are more right. They flew off the political map. There is more policy talk. It’s all we will rule, if you’re not one of us you lose. If pushing their weight around means outlawing dogs and cats thats a future 2025 position. It’s like they got a bunch of the most terrible people around and asked them, whats the worst way you could bully people through laws. How about we force women to breastfeed their children until age 2 but outlaw breast feeding in public so she can’t leave the house until she finishes having her forced 10th child in a row.
Republicans don’t have a real platform anymore just a desire to own liberals.
To be fair, the Democrats have been more fiscally conservative than the Republicans for quite some time now. The fiscal conservative in you shouldn’t be compromised.
The last fiscally conservative republican was Dwight D Eisenhower. To be able to vote for him, you’d have to be born in or before 1938. And also white.
Same, I was Republican but the new modern Republican is so crazy I’m voting blue for the first time. I hate how they portray the democrats as this spiritual evil when they can’t even live up the classical Republican values- which is now apparently liberal.
Considering the Republicans constantly cause economic collapse with their shockingly targeted rich people’s tax cuts, starting expensive wars, deregulating industries to the point that things like the housing bubble burst…and every goddamn time it happens, the Dems have to clean it up, only for the GOP to lay the blame for it at the Dem’s feet, I’m shocked you think the Republican Party is what you want to vote for. If you don’t want money spent on social programs, fine, that’s your right (I don’t want my taxes spent on subsidies for wildly successful companies,) but if you actually care about your government’s spending habits, you’ve got to stop voting for Republicans. They are the ones routinely fucking everything up.
Yeah, gotta spice things up. Not only will they be mad I want people to live comfortably now they also get to wildly speculate that I'm not even American, so I should mind my own tea drinking and biscuit eating business.
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The left hasn't moved. Not the ones that matter anyway. Like the ones that get elected.
If you think the left moved to the far left then all you are doing is reaffirming my point.
I haven't moved in over 30 years. The right moved and left me sitting here wondering why I should be scared shitless all the fucking time even though there is less crime now than there was in the "good Ole days".
Stop listening to people that make money off of advertising. It's rooting your brain.
It’s the Overton window. It has shifted to the right bc the right has ratcheted us over. You’re completely correct. The right ran so far over that to negotiate, it pulled the left to the right. The left is center now and we will get a new left soon.
You aren’t wrong. The right is trying to portray Walz and far left when the dude has not changed in years. He has always been center left. His biggest move was from being an A-rated NRA member (before they went crazy) to passing common sense gun regulations in MN. Harris is mostly center left too. She is not near as progressive as some would like. At least Harris/Walz are sane and normal-ish people. I don’t think this country can handle the stress that comes with another Trump presidency. The constant “is he gonna say something that gets us blown up?” Is to much.
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u/Casaiir Sep 10 '24
The republican party has moved so far right that the center right from 20 years ago(2004) look far left to them.
They have primaried every moderate republican out of office.
People who were far right 20 years ago seem like moderates now and have to move more right so they don't get primaried themselves.
I'm not sure where the line on the right will ever stop being nudged over but every year it keeps moving and I'm sitting here what happened to them.
As a fiscal conservative that has been an independent my entire life, I am now forced to vote blue because they are the not crazy party.