• IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’ll take any odds you’re offering.

    They’ve spent the last 40 years veering further and further right, consolidating their base of bigots whilst alienating everyone else.

    Even if there was a will to pivot left (which there isn’t), an entire party doesn’t become everything it hates in 6 years.

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      10 months ago

      The Republican Party shifted from left to right in the 1960s. There isn’t growth on the right, there is encredible growth on the left. MAGA and Progressives already have a lot in common on policy ideas, a hate for government, that shift isn’t that hard to do.

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        10 months ago

        The Republican Party shifted from left to right in the 1960s.

        Uh.

        The last hurrah of leftism in the GOP was Teddy, and even he was mild compared to the radicals of the 1870s. The GOP has been the party of finance and big business since the 1880s, and of unregulated capitalism since the 1920s. That they recently became exceptionally racist as well (instead of merely typically racist) is little more than incidental to that.

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        10 months ago

        that shift isn’t that hard to do.

        Very much agree to disagree on that one. You’re asking all the idiots who were told to hate woke people that they’re now best buds with them. You’re assuming the progressives are going to come down with a case of collective amnesia and not tell these people to jump off a cliff.

        Come on.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        The Republican Party shifted from left to right in the 1960s. There isn’t growth on the right, there is encredible growth on the left.

        Then maybe Democrats should try appealing to the left instead of trying to appease the right.