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Well you choose to engage in the system then....if you don't want to pay property or income taxes and if that is such a affront to you can simply not work or own property.
It's more like 40/20/40, maybe 45/10/45 - just look at how close elections always are - and based on your posts you're in no way part of the "us" in the middle 10 or 20.
Why? Because I don't worship the ground Trump walks on?
I think the more important question is, when did the Republican Party get so far right?
This was under Reagan in the 1980's. In particular, much more libertarian influence came into the GOP.
I think the Dems have actually been fairly far left since the time of Wilson. Wilson put people in jail for distributing political pamphlets. It doesn't get more left--collective control of speech--than that.
"... Today our entire Corporate Media is shrilly proclaiming—on the basis of absolutely no public evidence—that Christian Russia is on the verge of subverting and seizing control of the American government via the election of Donald Trump. It is therefore highly ironic that in the past all of these same media organs had viciously attacked and ridiculed those who presented the strong evidence that Communist Russia actually did come close to subverting and seizing control of the American government during the 1930s and 1940s, never fully acknowledging their grievous error. The massive documentation behind this undeniable historical fact has been provided across numerous scholarly books, but much of it is helpfully summarized in this monograph by Dr. Stephen Sniegoski, which is therefore worth republishing. —Ed..."
We are witnessing the final failure of the fall of communism, thank God!
I don't think the Democrats have gone that far to the left. It's that the Republicans went really far, far right. Many of them are obsessed with extremist religions that they are trying to force on everyone else. American was never supposed to be a theocracy/separation of church and state.
Most people are in the middle somewhere--we'll let the dreamers stay but make the illegals go and not let any more in, we want universal health insurance, we don't want wars, we want jobs, we don't want to sell out to big greedy corporations, etc.
Seriously though where have the blue dog dems gone? Their caucus is on life support in the house. The Democrats have basically become the party of criminals, illegals, & anti-americanism. I would vote for a JFK democrat in a heartbeat but can not support this Democrat party.
This was under Reagan in the 1980's. In particular, much more libertarian influence came into the GOP.
I think the Dems have actually been fairly far left since the time of Wilson. Wilson put people in jail for distributing political pamphlets. It doesn't get more left--collective control of speech--than that.
The last real conservative to get the Dem nomination for POTUS was in 1924, though: John W. Davis (albeit Davis had served in the Wilson Administration)
The author of this piece only errs in considering Davis' opposition to Prohibition as not being a conservative position, not recognizing that supporting federalism and personal freedom, and opposing Big Government, *was* in keeping with the traditions of conservatism, and that the divide over Prohibition was not a left-right divide even in an era in which left/right divisions did not match our own.
The last time the Dem candidate was to the right of the Repub candidate was 1904, when Alton Parker, an elderly judge who was chosen to keep William Jennings Bryan or William Randolph Hearst from getting the nomination, ran against Teddy Roosevelt.
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