More Democrats want a more moderate party, poll says.
More Democrats want a more moderate party, poll says.
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More Democrats want a more moderate party, poll says
Data from a new Gallup survey suggests that close to half of Democrats want their party to move more toward the middle, while more than 40% of Republicans are happy with their party.
Being more moderate would mean moving leftward.
...only on Lemmy lol.
In the real world America the left has gone so far left they have lost their own moderates and now they call those people righty centrists.
Every time I try to tell y'all that the average American finds your stances way too left you guys double down and insist that you actually need to go more left.
If you look at the issues people support, like universal health care, a living wage, meals for kids, yes, the average American does support moving left.
The problem is the media pushing the lies that a corporate centrist Democratic party is already too far left when that isn't the case.
That's actually not completely true. If you present the Bernie Sanders stuff to about 80% of American voters, without identifying the source, they go wild with approval, and they tell you that's the whole thing they've been saying this whole time.
There's a little bit of an issue that the average American is roughly on par with Nixon politics-compass-wise, but mostly the issue is that they've been so addled by poisonous corporate media that they don't know up from down, and they think the Republicans are the party of small government and honor, and the Democrats are the party of transgender-queer-ism and corporate corruption.
So you're right in terms of what political parties they support, but not in terms of what political stances they support. The one has just been divorced from the other by careful engineering. And then also, yes, some Nixon things like "immigrants are all dangerous rapists and the left is letting them do it" and other such things, they have absorbed.