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In reply to the discussion: DU was for change, not progressivism... [View all]phleshdef
(11,936 posts)At least at the congressional level... yet Americans continue to support just enough centrists and right wingers, not wholly, but enough that we have a very powerful conservative wing of the overall government that can and does wield that power effectively.
The problem, as I described to another poster, is that although the electorate largely seems to favor liberal solutions when polled on individual issues, many of them also do not wholly reject conservative or centrist based solutions. That's where the big disconnect is happening when you look at polling results vs the people who get elected and the platforms they get elected on. We have a lot of wishy washy voters who are, honestly, too damn ignorant to understand the big differences between the 2 competing ideologies or they do understand and vote against their best interests anyway for one misguided reason or another... some because they are single issue votes. They might be against legal abortion and FOR all kinds of progressive economic ideas. But they vote for the anti-choice candidate. Others, its because mixing up their votes between parties for different offices or supporting someone who is running on a moderate/centrist platform makes them feel good, like they are being fair and nonpartisan and shit. That's what we are dealing with.