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Don't worry..... Our next president will be a center right candidate and be declared both a rabid leftist and simultaneously the saviour of democracy. They'll only predator drone strike a few weddings, thus securing their Nobel peace prize. Everything will return to normal, with just a little shift of the Overton window to the right. But hey, at least it won't be Trump and full on fascism......
All sarcasm aside, the older I get the more headlines give me dejavu. I can remember article like this after the Gulf war where I felt like other countries were actually stepping away from America's lead, and then the Clinton's rose to power to make things better. Then Bush v2 and Afghanistan and then Obama promised to make it all better. Now we have trump and I'm beginning to wonder what kind of centerist compromise the Democrats are cooking up.
History may not repeat itself but it sure does rhyme, and seemingly the tune it does it to just gets worse every iteration.
Okay, but the reason we have centerist presidents is because that's as far left as the people running the government and the media were willing to go. The voters are a symptom of that. That's why they're going after schools, you can't have symptoms that are smart to what's going on. Read anything about inside Korea, and they really love their dear leader if they're young because it's like a religion.
Eh... That's debatable. The modern democratic party being center right is kinda a byproduct of Thirdway politics. Which was largely popularized by the party leaders itself, specifically by the Clinton's.
Bill Clinton rose to power by advocating for compromise as a way to get through the growing gridlock in Congress. This worked for his career, but it gave the Republican party a huge amount of influence over defining what that middle ground was. They would work with Democratic candidates with policy that served their purposes and completely ignore the ones that served anyone left of center.
This had the overall effect of not only controlling policy in congress, but actually being able to vicariously control the opposition. As time went on the only people who reached seniority in the DNC were those who would compromise with the rnc to create a "mutually" beneficial policy.
Pretty sure that we're saying the same thing.
My point of contention is largely that the issue isn't with the will of the voters, and that the direction of policy is largely directed from the top down.
Most American progressives are vastly more progressive than their representatives. It's just that the DNC's leadership is filled with thirdway democrats who refuse to support anyone left of center.
Edit: just reread you original comment. I misread it the first time round and thought you had said it was as far left as the people were willing to go. My bad.
It's all good. I do that a lot myself, lol. One thing trump has shown and been extremely transparent about, is that the billionaires don't give one shit about us and they run everything.