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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 07:51 PM
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39. No, america has not moved to the right
the parties, both parties, have.

If you ask Americans, do you want Medicare for all? AN overwhelming majority of Americans will support it. If you ask them if they want socialist style medical care, even if this is the same thing... then the approval rate drops. Why do you think is that? Red baiting and propaganda perhaps?

Americans are far more liberal than we give them credit for. Look we have had more than ONE defeat of the Dems by "running to the center."

Doing the same thing... knowing the result is the definition of insanity.

Oh and the range of "accepted political discourse" between the two parties not only has moved so far right that Buchanan is a centrist, but it has also narrowed... making your potential voting pool extremely cynical, with the real effect that we have had massive voter suppression.
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