Subject: To go a bit further into what hS had to say... (Politics)
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Posted on: 2014-08-19 02:13:00 UTC

Currently the United States has a very strong conservative party- the Republican party- and a 'I'm not with those other guys' party- the Democrat party.

So the result is really a extremely strong and focused party on the conservative side, and then a party that's made up of everyone else who doesn't actually want to call themselves a thirty party even though it results in an extreme dilution of the party they're part of, and everything slides further to the right in general.

Our 'liberal' party, the Democrat party, is actually very moderate and far more conservative in comparison to cultural progress than it had been, say, twenty years or so ago- and the same- but much more so- with our current Republican party.

(Plenty of politicians who considered themselves firmly in the Republican party have either shifted over to the Democrat party in the meantime or have been accused of being 'Republicans In Name Only, as a result of this. There's not much of a difference between a moderate 'Republican' and a moderate 'Democrat' in actuality; our two parties are fairly similar when actual moderates are involved.)

You can actually make a stunning comparison of similarities in terms of actions and policies between Presidents Nixon and Obama- despite the fact that Nixon was very much a Republican and Obama is a Democrat. Has to do with this shift.

It's all very interesting, and it doesn't help that since 2008 the differences have been painted as far more disparate than they are, which has been shoving us to the right.

But yeah, we really don't have much of a radical left these days as far as mainstream politics goes.


TL;DR: American politics is complicated.

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