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Back in the 1950's many (D's) & (R's) could agree on plenty of things, especially national defense and many social issues. I and others could genuinely consider and vote for some moderate or right leaning (D's) if they were a better candidate. However in today's politics with so many liberal/leftists in control of the party, I shudder to think of how I could vote for one today.
The leftist media will try to convince you that it is the (R's) who went hard right, but in reality it is the (D's) who went hard left.
As a result it makes (R's) who try to stem the liberal tide seem more right than they are. For example, look no further back than the 1990's and Bill Clinton's agenda and the DNC platform. By today's (D) standards, they were conservative. Bill himself likely wouldn't have gotten the (D) nomination, and certainly not Truman, JFK, or LBJ.
Sure the (D's) always had the fringe loons that wanted every sexual perversion known to man to be approved of, but they were a small minority.
Today I'd even hesitate on saying (D's) would be against child molesters, as despicable as they are. Even if they agreed they should be removed from society, they would likely want to rehabilitate them or give them much light sentence then they deserve.
As to anything we agree on, national pride, a strong defense, adherence to our constitutional republics form of governance, and others should all be things we agree on. We certainly use to, and pragmatic politicians of the past would work together on those and other things.
Yet today with an avowed socialist in Bernie (who is actually more like a communist), and then with Hillary trying to get to the left of him to get the nomination, I do not think there is much we can agree on. At least not until the adults in the (D) party regain control from the leftist kooks who are in charge today.
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