Folks need to actually read the piece

This is entirely due to the realignment in the South. Moderate Southern Democrats have all been replaced by conservative Republicans. That's all this is.

Anonymous wrote:It’s frustrating that the forum moderator here erases any posts calling out the double standard with this study. I’d like to see a corresponding study on the left, on their obsession with ideological purity, litmus tests, and moral absolutism. I’d really love to just be able to write this post without the mod erasing it again. All I said was that the left has the same fervor as the right, just for other things, like their policies toward crime and education, but I guess my post was too much for this thread. It didn’t comport with the liberal narrative and was this deleted. Can’t risk jeopardizing those ad clicks from forum advertising I guess.

What are you talking about. This research studied the right and the left. The only posts I saw that were deleted just called it fake news.

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Anonymous wrote:The shift in both parties is largely the result of the 1994 and 2010 elections in which moderate Democrats in right-leaning districts were replaced by paranoid idiot Republicans. Then when the Democrats took back seats in 2006 and 2018 they beat more moderate suburban Republicans, not the lunatics.

And those people in the moderate suburbs have now seen exactly what “moderate” democrats are - and will be tossing them out in November.

I bet you’re claiming to be a “staunch Democrat” on other threads tonight, aren’t you.

The fact of the GOP’s extremism are evident to all, as is the risk that they pose to the US.

For example, here are two cases of right wing extremist movements that are currently posing a threat to the country’s safety (along with many other right wing domestic terrorists such as what we saw on 1/6). These people are totally welcome and at home in the GOP:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/incel-threat-secret-service-report/?dc_data=1131694_samsung-carnival-us&utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=taboola_news&utm_campaign=ECCBSiCBSNews&ui=e305b5ff-f116-401e-ae93-5bc95e33ef3f-tuct925560b

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-preparing-war-an-expert-civil-wars-discusses-where-political-extremists-are-taking-this-country/

I don't discount what the GOP did and did not do on Jan 6th. I also think the 'there's a civil war coming!' people are nuts. Isn't Covid enough for you? If not that - you're welcome to focus your militant dreams on what's happening in Ukraine.

As far as normal domestic policy goes, you'll be very surprised as how more moderate people become when they can't buy milk in the aisles.

What do you imagine that Republicans would do about inflation? They are incapable of anything but obstruction in Congress. They have no coherent policy agenda. They can’t discuss the economy or inflation or anything else without a half dozen lies, distortions, and absurd conspiracies. We have inflation because we are in an economic boom after a severe disruption that reshuffled the global economy. Jobs and profits are way up. Poverty is down. It’s much better than 2020 even with inflation.

To start they’d reopen the pipelines to lower gas prices, introduce a gas tax holiday nationally and encourage businesses who need the gas to deliver goods and services. Passing along savings to consumers.

Practical ideas that work and before you say ‘that wouldn’t happen’ can I point you to this?

I knew you would say pipelines! Pipelines do not create new oil & gas. They are a distribution method for oil & gas we are already getting. Starting or restarting pipeline projects would have no effect on supply or price.

Bottlenecking increases price - no one told you that?

Anonymous wrote:It’s frustrating that the forum moderator here erases any posts calling out the double standard with this study. I’d like to see a corresponding study on the left, on their obsession with ideological purity, litmus tests, and moral absolutism. I’d really love to just be able to write this post without the mod erasing it again. All I said was that the left has the same fervor as the right, just for other things, like their policies toward crime and education, but I guess my post was too much for this thread. It didn’t comport with the liberal narrative and was this deleted. Can’t risk jeopardizing those ad clicks from forum advertising I guess.

This study looks at votes in Congress, a tangible measurement that isn't skewed by messaging or social media propaganda.

The authors don't care about "ideological purity, litmus tests, and moral absolutism" - that's just words and words are cheap. Republicans clearly have their own ideological purity and litmus test - just ask Liz Cheney!

The authors only care about Congressional votes because votes are akin to real, tangible power. Congressional votes have the ability to change our lives, while words on Twitter have a lot less impact.

Anonymous wrote:It’s frustrating that the forum moderator here erases any posts calling out the double standard with this study. I’d like to see a corresponding study on the left, on their obsession with ideological purity, litmus tests, and moral absolutism. I’d really love to just be able to write this post without the mod erasing it again. All I said was that the left has the same fervor as the right, just for other things, like their policies toward crime and education, but I guess my post was too much for this thread. It didn’t comport with the liberal narrative and was this deleted. Can’t risk jeopardizing those ad clicks from forum advertising I guess.

I personally come here to read and try to understand other viewpoints than my own, and I think the forum is much more interesting to read when there is a civil back and forth debating both sides, but the owner has the right to shape the opinions as they see fit. Sometimes things get off track of the original post, so I can see editing in those situations, but that is often not the case. I only come here/post sporadically now.

It’s frustrating that the forum moderator here erases any posts calling out the double standard with this study. I’d like to see a corresponding study on the left, on their obsession with ideological purity, litmus tests, and moral absolutism. I’d really love to just be able to write this post without the mod erasing it again. All I said was that the left has the same fervor as the right, just for other things, like their policies toward crime and education, but I guess my post was too much for this thread. It didn’t comport with the liberal narrative and was this deleted. Can’t risk jeopardizing those ad clicks from forum advertising I guess.

Anonymous wrote:It tracks with the rise of Fox News.

I don't know why the left give Fox News so much credit. I know many very conservative types, and none of them like or watch Fox.

It tracks with the rise of Fox News.

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Anonymous wrote:The shift in both parties is largely the result of the 1994 and 2010 elections in which moderate Democrats in right-leaning districts were replaced by paranoid idiot Republicans. Then when the Democrats took back seats in 2006 and 2018 they beat more moderate suburban Republicans, not the lunatics.

And those people in the moderate suburbs have now seen exactly what “moderate” democrats are - and will be tossing them out in November.

I bet you’re claiming to be a “staunch Democrat” on other threads tonight, aren’t you.

The fact of the GOP’s extremism are evident to all, as is the risk that they pose to the US.

For example, here are two cases of right wing extremist movements that are currently posing a threat to the country’s safety (along with many other right wing domestic terrorists such as what we saw on 1/6). These people are totally welcome and at home in the GOP:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/incel-threat-secret-service-report/?dc_data=1131694_samsung-carnival-us&utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=taboola_news&utm_campaign=ECCBSiCBSNews&ui=e305b5ff-f116-401e-ae93-5bc95e33ef3f-tuct925560b

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-preparing-war-an-expert-civil-wars-discusses-where-political-extremists-are-taking-this-country/

I don't discount what the GOP did and did not do on Jan 6th. I also think the 'there's a civil war coming!' people are nuts. Isn't Covid enough for you? If not that - you're welcome to focus your militant dreams on what's happening in Ukraine.

As far as normal domestic policy goes, you'll be very surprised as how more moderate people become when they can't buy milk in the aisles.

What do you imagine that Republicans would do about inflation? They are incapable of anything but obstruction in Congress. They have no coherent policy agenda. They can’t discuss the economy or inflation or anything else without a half dozen lies, distortions, and absurd conspiracies. We have inflation because we are in an economic boom after a severe disruption that reshuffled the global economy. Jobs and profits are way up. Poverty is down. It’s much better than 2020 even with inflation.

To start they’d reopen the pipelines to lower gas prices, introduce a gas tax holiday nationally and encourage businesses who need the gas to deliver goods and services. Passing along savings to consumers.

Practical ideas that work and before you say ‘that wouldn’t happen’ can I point you to this?

I knew you would say pipelines! Pipelines do not create new oil & gas. They are a distribution method for oil & gas we are already getting. Starting or restarting pipeline projects would have no effect on supply or price.

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Anonymous wrote:The shift in both parties is largely the result of the 1994 and 2010 elections in which moderate Democrats in right-leaning districts were replaced by paranoid idiot Republicans. Then when the Democrats took back seats in 2006 and 2018 they beat more moderate suburban Republicans, not the lunatics.

And those people in the moderate suburbs have now seen exactly what “moderate” democrats are - and will be tossing them out in November.

I bet you’re claiming to be a “staunch Democrat” on other threads tonight, aren’t you.

The fact of the GOP’s extremism are evident to all, as is the risk that they pose to the US.

For example, here are two cases of right wing extremist movements that are currently posing a threat to the country’s safety (along with many other right wing domestic terrorists such as what we saw on 1/6). These people are totally welcome and at home in the GOP:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/incel-threat-secret-service-report/?dc_data=1131694_samsung-carnival-us&utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=taboola_news&utm_campaign=ECCBSiCBSNews&ui=e305b5ff-f116-401e-ae93-5bc95e33ef3f-tuct925560b

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-preparing-war-an-expert-civil-wars-discusses-where-political-extremists-are-taking-this-country/

I don't discount what the GOP did and did not do on Jan 6th. I also think the 'there's a civil war coming!' people are nuts. Isn't Covid enough for you? If not that - you're welcome to focus your militant dreams on what's happening in Ukraine.

As far as normal domestic policy goes, you'll be very surprised as how more moderate people become when they can't buy milk in the aisles.

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You do discount what the GOP did on the day they tried to overthrow the government. They’re still doing it and you’re still supporting it.

Thanks again for not even reading the links I posted; stay ignorant, Republican voter! I don’t want a civil war; experts are warning that Republicans want a civil war.

Republicans do NOTHING practical or common sense. For example: 93% of Republican senators voted against capping insulin prices. Matt Gaetz (a man alleged to have trafficked and raped children and you all are still protecting him) was a vote against. His answer for diabetes? Tell them to lose weight! That idiot doesn’t even know about type one diabetes. There’s your “common sense.”

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Anonymous wrote:The shift in both parties is largely the result of the 1994 and 2010 elections in which moderate Democrats in right-leaning districts were replaced by paranoid idiot Republicans. Then when the Democrats took back seats in 2006 and 2018 they beat more moderate suburban Republicans, not the lunatics.

And those people in the moderate suburbs have now seen exactly what “moderate” democrats are - and will be tossing them out in November.

I bet you’re claiming to be a “staunch Democrat” on other threads tonight, aren’t you.

The fact of the GOP’s extremism are evident to all, as is the risk that they pose to the US.

For example, here are two cases of right wing extremist movements that are currently posing a threat to the country’s safety (along with many other right wing domestic terrorists such as what we saw on 1/6). These people are totally welcome and at home in the GOP:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/incel-threat-secret-service-report/?dc_data=1131694_samsung-carnival-us&utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=taboola_news&utm_campaign=ECCBSiCBSNews&ui=e305b5ff-f116-401e-ae93-5bc95e33ef3f-tuct925560b

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-preparing-war-an-expert-civil-wars-discusses-where-political-extremists-are-taking-this-country/

I don't discount what the GOP did and did not do on Jan 6th. I also think the 'there's a civil war coming!' people are nuts. Isn't Covid enough for you? If not that - you're welcome to focus your militant dreams on what's happening in Ukraine.

As far as normal domestic policy goes, you'll be very surprised as how more moderate people become when they can't buy milk in the aisles.

What do you imagine that Republicans would do about inflation? They are incapable of anything but obstruction in Congress. They have no coherent policy agenda. They can’t discuss the economy or inflation or anything else without a half dozen lies, distortions, and absurd conspiracies. We have inflation because we are in an economic boom after a severe disruption that reshuffled the global economy. Jobs and profits are way up. Poverty is down. It’s much better than 2020 even with inflation.

To start they’d reopen the pipelines to lower gas prices, introduce a gas tax holiday nationally and encourage businesses who need the gas to deliver goods and services. Passing along savings to consumers.

Practical ideas that work and before you say ‘that wouldn’t happen’ can I point you to this?

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Anonymous wrote:The shift in both parties is largely the result of the 1994 and 2010 elections in which moderate Democrats in right-leaning districts were replaced by paranoid idiot Republicans. Then when the Democrats took back seats in 2006 and 2018 they beat more moderate suburban Republicans, not the lunatics.

And those people in the moderate suburbs have now seen exactly what “moderate” democrats are - and will be tossing them out in November.

I bet you’re claiming to be a “staunch Democrat” on other threads tonight, aren’t you.

The fact of the GOP’s extremism are evident to all, as is the risk that they pose to the US.

For example, here are two cases of right wing extremist movements that are currently posing a threat to the country’s safety (along with many other right wing domestic terrorists such as what we saw on 1/6). These people are totally welcome and at home in the GOP:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/incel-threat-secret-service-report/?dc_data=1131694_samsung-carnival-us&utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=taboola_news&utm_campaign=ECCBSiCBSNews&ui=e305b5ff-f116-401e-ae93-5bc95e33ef3f-tuct925560b

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-preparing-war-an-expert-civil-wars-discusses-where-political-extremists-are-taking-this-country/

I don't discount what the GOP did and did not do on Jan 6th. I also think the 'there's a civil war coming!' people are nuts. Isn't Covid enough for you? If not that - you're welcome to focus your militant dreams on what's happening in Ukraine.

As far as normal domestic policy goes, you'll be very surprised as how more moderate people become when they can't buy milk in the aisles.

What do you imagine that Republicans would do about inflation? They are incapable of anything but obstruction in Congress. They have no coherent policy agenda. They can’t discuss the economy or inflation or anything else without a half dozen lies, distortions, and absurd conspiracies. We have inflation because we are in an economic boom after a severe disruption that reshuffled the global economy. Jobs and profits are way up. Poverty is down. It’s much better than 2020 even with inflation.

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Anonymous wrote:The shift in both parties is largely the result of the 1994 and 2010 elections in which moderate Democrats in right-leaning districts were replaced by paranoid idiot Republicans. Then when the Democrats took back seats in 2006 and 2018 they beat more moderate suburban Republicans, not the lunatics.

And those people in the moderate suburbs have now seen exactly what “moderate” democrats are - and will be tossing them out in November.

I bet you’re claiming to be a “staunch Democrat” on other threads tonight, aren’t you.

The fact of the GOP’s extremism are evident to all, as is the risk that they pose to the US.

For example, here are two cases of right wing extremist movements that are currently posing a threat to the country’s safety (along with many other right wing domestic terrorists such as what we saw on 1/6). These people are totally welcome and at home in the GOP:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/incel-threat-secret-service-report/?dc_data=1131694_samsung-carnival-us&utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=taboola_news&utm_campaign=ECCBSiCBSNews&ui=e305b5ff-f116-401e-ae93-5bc95e33ef3f-tuct925560b

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-preparing-war-an-expert-civil-wars-discusses-where-political-extremists-are-taking-this-country/

I don't discount what the GOP did and did not do on Jan 6th. I also think the 'there's a civil war coming!' people are nuts. Isn't Covid enough for you? If not that - you're welcome to focus your militant dreams on what's happening in Ukraine.

As far as normal domestic policy goes, you'll be very surprised as how more moderate people become when they can't buy milk in the aisles.

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Anonymous wrote:No duh! It’s frightening!

Why would they frighten you? It’s a reaction to what they’re seeing the left do

No, not what the left is doing. It's what you're being told the left is doing and what you're being told to be afraid of. Like, suddenly trans athletes are the biggest problem on the planet. Imaginary BS about CRT being taught in schools.

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Anonymous wrote:No duh! It’s frightening!

Why would they frighten you? It’s a reaction to what they’re seeing the left do

It’s a reaction to what they “think The left is doing. There’s a lot of right wing propaganda sites that are very heavily watched and feeding half of our population lies