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In reply to the discussion: I am so utterly sick of this Third Way shit. [View all]raindaddy
(1,370 posts)Americans will say they're conservative, especially when we're in shaky times. But when you ask them about specifics they're a lot more liberal than the media wants you to believe.
Americans are fed up with Middle East wars, yet they continue. They like Medicare and Social Security and want to maintain them, they're slated for an overhaul. Most Americans want to bring back our domestic manufacturing base/millions of jobs that were shipped overseas, via these same conservative trade policies. They want to legalize marijuana. They want to raise taxes on the wealthy. They also want jobs!!
There are a hell of a lot pluses here for the President and the Dem party. Traditional Dem values!!! If they can't shift the public dialogue in their direction in a middle-class depression, they either are more interested in maintaining their $eat in congress or they're leaning more to the right than the Dem voters recognize.