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OhhhJa posted...

BlackScythe0 posted...

So for my commentary it needs to be framed from a simple fact. The republican party has been moving to the right, and the base of the party is quite extreme at this point. Most of us can accept this yes?

Well you must also accept that most republicans do not realize they have been radicalized. They don't realize they have been shifting to the right, they also don't realize that the democratic party was shifting to the right until Bernie and Trump really fired up the democratic base and helped us see a small kinda left wing version of the tea party in the house.

Lol the opposite is closer to the truth. The left has become waaaaaaay more radicalized over the past decade than the right. The democrats now are absolutely nothing like what they were in say 2004 whereas Republicans are pretty much spewing the same christian rhetoric they always have been

Bull shit.

I even said democrats have taken a sudden shift slightly to the left after the recent entry of young left wing politicians into the house. But that is an issue of the last few years. Not an issue of the last decade. Democrats were trending right, and being center/center-right was a criticism of Hillary. You may not have agreed for issues I discussed in the post you partially quoted, but it was a common criticism.

Republicans were radicalized with the Tea Party. They were so radical that when it came time to repeal health care they couldn't agree because the Tea Party said to every single bill "this doesn't kill enough Americans!" you have Rand Paul trying to block 9/11 spending bills because he thinks the lives of American heroes needs to come by cutting spending from other forms of health care. Someone has to die to get his vote.

That is radical. That is extreme. That is not the sort of things republicans have always been doing. That isn't even going into Trump announcing his campaign with a racist lie and running almost exclusively on racism.