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In reply to the discussion: Rachel had it Right, now DU is getting it wrong. [View all]Phillyindy
(406 posts)One can not just ignore that the modern day conservative movement has moved into the nuthouse, or for that matter the country as a whole has shifted so far to the right that 30 years ago Obama would be a moderate Republican. Is there really "compromise" that supply side economics has damn near destroyed the country? That Programs like social security haVe NOT added a penny to our debt? That deregulating Wall Street was and is pure suicide? That if Viagra is covered by insurance, then birth control damn well should be as well? I could go on, but you get the point.
Republicans like to say you can't negotiate with terrorists, well I'm sorry to say the current Republican Party are economic and social terrorists in the same manner - ideologs who would gladly waych the country burn before admit they were wrong. I agree that we need a left and a right, and that there is a time when classic conservative policies are needed....but we are no where near that time right now. This is not the time for conprinise. We need to drag this country back fron right wing hell first, to some form of sanity before we can even begin to talk compromise.