This graph is not correct, because in national politics there IS no one on the left. Everything has moved right. Unfortunately, a lot of American citizens are still believers in liberalism, protecting the little guy against corporations, and helping Americans improve themselves and their country — but they have no one to represent them.
Dukakis IS a Dem, and perhaps Mrs. Bush forgets how well the Dems treated Bush the Elder regarding his compromise on taxes.
We’ll have to agree to disagree. Most conservatives view Obamacare as an assault on freedom. The problem on health care was cost, not overall access for the uninsured. The truly uninsured could have been addressed without converting 1/6th of the American economy to a statist vision of healthcare, a long-time Democratic dream.
Besides, healthcare was not biggest issue when Obam was elected, and still isn’t: it’s the economy. But he did promise to fundamentally transform America, didn’t he?
Obama was my home state’s Senator, and before that, one of our state legislators. He was a man of no accomplishments then, and he’s doing a worse job now.
The problem is the primary system is dominated by the most extreme members of both parties, so while the public is basically in the center, by November the choices are limited to the extremes. Worse, centrist candidates are either being pushed out by their own party, giving up in disgust (Snow in ME), or in trouble because people hate the rest of their party (Chafee in RI, Brown in MA).
If voting in primaries was mandatory, we’d get a better selection of candidates.
Kind of backwards. The right is less right than it used to be. The left has moved tremendously (what would JFK, LBJ, FDR, etc.. think about current left-wing favorite causes???)
Compromise, this is how I explained it to my sons. Let’s say that a bully comes up to you and says, “I want to break both your legs.” You reply, “I don’t want you to touch me at all.” So the bully says, “Let’s compromise, I’ll just break one leg.”
How can such a compromise be acceptable? So compromise can be a dirty word, depending on the context of the compromise being suggested. Far too often in politics this is the sort of compromise the left suggests. The far right at times is guilty of this as well.
NavyRetired97 over 12 years ago
All too often, when the Dems say compromise, their idea is that the GOP just needs to agree with them.
Motivemagus about 12 years ago
This graph is not correct, because in national politics there IS no one on the left. Everything has moved right. Unfortunately, a lot of American citizens are still believers in liberalism, protecting the little guy against corporations, and helping Americans improve themselves and their country — but they have no one to represent them.
NavyRetired97 about 12 years ago
Dukakis IS a Dem, and perhaps Mrs. Bush forgets how well the Dems treated Bush the Elder regarding his compromise on taxes.
We’ll have to agree to disagree. Most conservatives view Obamacare as an assault on freedom. The problem on health care was cost, not overall access for the uninsured. The truly uninsured could have been addressed without converting 1/6th of the American economy to a statist vision of healthcare, a long-time Democratic dream.
Besides, healthcare was not biggest issue when Obam was elected, and still isn’t: it’s the economy. But he did promise to fundamentally transform America, didn’t he?
Obama was my home state’s Senator, and before that, one of our state legislators. He was a man of no accomplishments then, and he’s doing a worse job now.
pdchapin about 12 years ago
The problem is the primary system is dominated by the most extreme members of both parties, so while the public is basically in the center, by November the choices are limited to the extremes. Worse, centrist candidates are either being pushed out by their own party, giving up in disgust (Snow in ME), or in trouble because people hate the rest of their party (Chafee in RI, Brown in MA).
If voting in primaries was mandatory, we’d get a better selection of candidates.
geometer2 about 12 years ago
Kind of backwards. The right is less right than it used to be. The left has moved tremendously (what would JFK, LBJ, FDR, etc.. think about current left-wing favorite causes???)
archimedeslives about 12 years ago
Compromise, this is how I explained it to my sons. Let’s say that a bully comes up to you and says, “I want to break both your legs.” You reply, “I don’t want you to touch me at all.” So the bully says, “Let’s compromise, I’ll just break one leg.”
How can such a compromise be acceptable? So compromise can be a dirty word, depending on the context of the compromise being suggested. Far too often in politics this is the sort of compromise the left suggests. The far right at times is guilty of this as well.