POLL: Is your party Centrist?

[Coyote]

I'm told on another thread (CDZ - Could it be too late for a viable third party?) that the Democratic Party is Centrist. Of course, I've been told the same things by Republicans.

Let's find out!

And feel free to define "Centrist". The working definition for this thread will be "Centrist means that my party strikes a good balance of the priorities and wishes of the largest number of Americans."

If you don't feel your party is Centrist, then, perhaps you feel that it has strayed off too far to its end of the political spectrum and needs to rethink where it is.

Go!
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It remains to be seen if the Democrats are centrist - they've hit their Tea Party moment and it could pull the party much further left. Then will they follow the Republican model and purge the centrists from their party?

Centrist Democrats strike back at leftward lurch

When 3 people have as much wealth as half the country, something's gotta give.

I don't think pulling to an extreme is the answer. Are the Dems the Big Tent? Or not?

 

[Preacher]

I'm told on another thread (CDZ - Could it be too late for a viable third party?) that the Democratic Party is Centrist. Of course, I've been told the same things by Republicans.

Let's find out!

And feel free to define "Centrist". The working definition for this thread will be "Centrist means that my party strikes a good balance of the priorities and wishes of the largest number of Americans."

If you don't feel your party is Centrist, then, perhaps you feel that it has strayed off too far to its end of the political spectrum and needs to rethink where it is.

Go!
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Hell no! Anyone that says EITHER party is centrist is full of shit. NO party is centrist. Centrists agree to stand for NOTHING other than which way the wind is blowing to determine their views.

 

[Jets]

I’m a Blue Dog Democrat. I would say they are close to centrist.

 

[Preacher]

I’m a Blue Dog Democrat. I would say they are close to centrist.

But blue dog democrats aren't a party. Hell I have heard one of the blue dog democrats Manchin is gonna resign and run for Governor.

 

[initforme]

Centrists actually think first before overreacting whereas the two major party Kool aid drinkers react.....I'm a proud centrist.

 

[sartre play]

There is no party working for the majority, all have gone bonkers, only work for there brand, money & lies.

 

[ptbw forever]

I'm told on another thread (CDZ - Could it be too late for a viable third party?) that the Democratic Party is Centrist. Of course, I've been told the same things by Republicans.

Let's find out!

And feel free to define "Centrist". The working definition for this thread will be "Centrist means that my party strikes a good balance of the priorities and wishes of the largest number of Americans."

If you don't feel your party is Centrist, then, perhaps you feel that it has strayed off too far to its end of the political spectrum and needs to rethink where it is.

Go!
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As described here...

Political scientists, using DW-Nominate scores, have concluded that the Republicans now in Congress are much further to the right of congressional Republicans in the 1970s and 1980s. And even anecdotally, figures like former House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and the late Arizona Sen. John McCain — considered solid conservatives in the George H.W. Bush era — found themselves cast as insufficiently right-wing by the party’s base in recent years.

Dude even the fucking New York Times admits that Democrats are far left.

 

[ptbw forever]

I'm told on another thread (CDZ - Could it be too late for a viable third party?) that the Democratic Party is Centrist. Of course, I've been told the same things by Republicans.

Let's find out!

And feel free to define "Centrist". The working definition for this thread will be "Centrist means that my party strikes a good balance of the priorities and wishes of the largest number of Americans."

If you don't feel your party is Centrist, then, perhaps you feel that it has strayed off too far to its end of the political spectrum and needs to rethink where it is.

Go!
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As described here...

Political scientists, using DW-Nominate scores, have concluded that the Republicans now in Congress are much further to the right of congressional Republicans in the 1970s and 1980s. And even anecdotally, figures like former House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and the late Arizona Sen. John McCain — considered solid conservatives in the George H.W. Bush era — found themselves cast as insufficiently right-wing by the party’s base in recent years.

Okay, so the Democrats are Centrist, they have not moved Left?
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They moved right.

There is not a single source on the planet that agrees with you.

 

[dudmuck]

I'm told on another thread (CDZ - Could it be too late for a viable third party?) that the Democratic Party is Centrist. Of course, I've been told the same things by Republicans.

Let's find out!

And feel free to define "Centrist". The working definition for this thread will be "Centrist means that my party strikes a good balance of the priorities and wishes of the largest number of Americans."

If you don't feel your party is Centrist, then, perhaps you feel that it has strayed off too far to its end of the political spectrum and needs to rethink where it is.

Go!
.

As described here...

Political scientists, using DW-Nominate scores, have concluded that the Republicans now in Congress are much further to the right of congressional Republicans in the 1970s and 1980s. And even anecdotally, figures like former House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and the late Arizona Sen. John McCain — considered solid conservatives in the George H.W. Bush era — found themselves cast as insufficiently right-wing by the party’s base in recent years.

Dude even the fucking New York Times admits that Democrats are far left.

The left has moved further leftward, but not nearly as much as the right went further rightward.
Its called asymmetric polarization.

 

[ptbw forever]

I'm told on another thread (CDZ - Could it be too late for a viable third party?) that the Democratic Party is Centrist. Of course, I've been told the same things by Republicans.

Let's find out!

And feel free to define "Centrist". The working definition for this thread will be "Centrist means that my party strikes a good balance of the priorities and wishes of the largest number of Americans."

If you don't feel your party is Centrist, then, perhaps you feel that it has strayed off too far to its end of the political spectrum and needs to rethink where it is.

Go!
.

As described here...

Political scientists, using DW-Nominate scores, have concluded that the Republicans now in Congress are much further to the right of congressional Republicans in the 1970s and 1980s. And even anecdotally, figures like former House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and the late Arizona Sen. John McCain — considered solid conservatives in the George H.W. Bush era — found themselves cast as insufficiently right-wing by the party’s base in recent years.

Dude even the fucking New York Times admits that Democrats are far left.

The left has moved further leftward, but not nearly as much as the right went further rightward.
Its called asymmetric polarization.

Not only is this wrong in every way, but your source doesn’t even have the guts to show 2012 to 2018 like every other source.

Hint:Republicans barely moved and Democrats moved a lot.

 

[JoeB131]

Let's find out!

And feel free to define "Centrist". The working definition for this thread will be "Centrist means that my party strikes a good balance of the priorities and wishes of the largest number of Americans."

No, that's kind of a stupid definition.

Centrist would mean, where the majority of Americans are right now.

For instance, 25 years ago, supporting gay marriage would have been a fringe position, but today, it's pretty mainstream.

Similarly, support for a woman's right to abortion is supported by the majority.

 

[Tehon]

I'm told on another thread (CDZ - Could it be too late for a viable third party?) that the Democratic Party is Centrist. Of course, I've been told the same things by Republicans.

Let's find out!

And feel free to define "Centrist". The working definition for this thread will be "Centrist means that my party strikes a good balance of the priorities and wishes of the largest number of Americans."

If you don't feel your party is Centrist, then, perhaps you feel that it has strayed off too far to its end of the political spectrum and needs to rethink where it is.

Go!
.

As described here...

Political scientists, using DW-Nominate scores, have concluded that the Republicans now in Congress are much further to the right of congressional Republicans in the 1970s and 1980s. And even anecdotally, figures like former House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and the late Arizona Sen. John McCain — considered solid conservatives in the George H.W. Bush era — found themselves cast as insufficiently right-wing by the party’s base in recent years.

Okay, so the Democrats are Centrist, they have not moved Left?
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They moved right.

There is not a single source on the planet that agrees with you.

That's not exactly true.

And we're talking about positions held under Bill Clinton, a "third way" leader who himself moved Democratic ideology dramatically to the right, the guy responsible for "ending welfare as we know it". Since then, Democrats have moved much further yet to the right, in the fruitless search for a compromise with a Republican Party that sees compromise itself as fundamentally evil. The obvious example is that the Democrats in 2010 literally passed the universal health-insurance reform that had been proposed by the GOP opposition in the Clinton administration, only to find today's GOP vilifying it as a form of Leninist socialist totalitarianism.
Reversing polarisation

 

[Norman]

The people here who think democrats have moved to the right after the last presidential debate - absolutely insane. I no longer wonder how they can't tell apart a male and a female, this is new level.

 

[Mac1958]

It remains to be seen if the Democrats are centrist - they've hit their Tea Party moment and it could pull the party much further left. Then will they follow the Republican model and purge the centrists from their party?
Centrist Democrats strike back at leftward lurch

I think they've passed their Tea Party moment. They're in full-on Trump mode now, only in the opposite direction.

It's not quite to the point of Biden playing Jeb, but that's clearly the trajectory.
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[Mac1958]

There is no party working for the majority, all have gone bonkers, only work for there brand, money & lies.

A poster on another thread made a good point, that the easiest way for this to change is that enough decent elected representatives from each party peel themselves away from the madness, loudly and publicly. If the people see this, if enough people in the machine say ENOUGH.

I'm not saying that will happen, but Amash is an example. Otherwise the lunatics will continue to pull us apart.
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[Kondor3]

Alternative choice: * I am neither, and neither party is Centrist, regardless of what they say.

 

[Theowl32]

I'm told on another thread (CDZ - Could it be too late for a viable third party?) that the Democratic Party is Centrist. Of course, I've been told the same things by Republicans.

Let's find out!

And feel free to define "Centrist". The working definition for this thread will be "Centrist means that my party strikes a good balance of the priorities and wishes of the largest number of Americans."

If you don't feel your party is Centrist, then, perhaps you feel that it has strayed off too far to its end of the political spectrum and needs to rethink where it is.

Go!
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Can't you just shut up? Please!

Can you please just shut up?

 

[Mac1958]

I'm told on another thread (CDZ - Could it be too late for a viable third party?) that the Democratic Party is Centrist. Of course, I've been told the same things by Republicans.

Let's find out!

And feel free to define "Centrist". The working definition for this thread will be "Centrist means that my party strikes a good balance of the priorities and wishes of the largest number of Americans."

If you don't feel your party is Centrist, then, perhaps you feel that it has strayed off too far to its end of the political spectrum and needs to rethink where it is.

Go!
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Can't you just shut up? Please!

Can you please just shut up?

I ALREADY HAVE

YOU'RE JUST HEARING VOICES IN YOUR HEAD
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[Jets]

There is no party working for the majority, all have gone bonkers, only work for there brand, money & lies.

A poster on another thread made a good point, that the easiest way for this to change is that enough decent elected representatives from each party peel themselves away from the madness, loudly and publicly. If the people see this, if enough people in the machine say ENOUGH.

I'm not saying that will happen, but Amash is an example. Otherwise the lunatics will continue to pull us apart.
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As long as elected officials such as Cortez and S King are looked at as the faces of their perspective parties, then tribalism will continue to be the norm for political discourse.

 

[Theowl32]

I'm told on another thread (CDZ - Could it be too late for a viable third party?) that the Democratic Party is Centrist. Of course, I've been told the same things by Republicans.

Let's find out!

And feel free to define "Centrist". The working definition for this thread will be "Centrist means that my party strikes a good balance of the priorities and wishes of the largest number of Americans."

If you don't feel your party is Centrist, then, perhaps you feel that it has strayed off too far to its end of the political spectrum and needs to rethink where it is.

Go!
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Can't you just shut up? Please!

Can you please just shut up?

I ALREADY HAVE

YOU'RE JUST HEARING VOICES IN YOUR HEAD
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You want to know why we are in the mess we are in? Do you really want to know?

I doubt you do, but I will give it a try. Of course, there is nothing that can be done except for a start over from scratch and even if we did, the globalists and their agenda is nearly impossible to overcome.

The problem is the false notion that...

1. We are a democracy

2. Voting is a right

We are not a democracy. Democracy can be labeled as mobacracy. The professional politicians have studied the power of group think and that is their bread and butter. As a result of voting being a right, politicians are more likely to be like candy store owners and promising large sweet feasts to the masses.

Where leaders are supposed to be more like doctors that give treatment. Often times that treatment is unpleasant but it is good. However with large swaths of ignorant or brainwashed groups, it is nearly impossible for politicans to sell unpleasant treatments regardless of how good it might be.

Watch and learn and see why we are where we are.



If you see why voting is not supposed to be a right, then you get it. If you think it is better for this country for this REPUBLIC that any idiot has the power to vote then you are a brainwashed tool.