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In reply to the discussion: Has the democratic party drifted to the right over the past 40 years? [View all]WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)59. I agree that it's mostly a mixed bag within 40 yrs. Overall...
in this time I think our party's stances tend to run fairly parallel with average Americans. Now ask the same question using 60 or 100 years and my answer would be that we've moved more left but I think the majority of Americans have as well in that time.
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Has the democratic party drifted to the right over the past 40 years? [View all]
redqueen
Dec 2019
OP
Reagan WAS a Democrat until 1962 and in fact he was a strong union advocate at one time:
George II
Dec 2019
#34
Certainly it is more socially liberal but in its heyday the party was economically liberal.
hedda_foil
Dec 2019
#42
Bernie is no FDR, and the country is a very different situation than it was during his
ehrnst
Jan 2020
#50
No. For most of the last 40 years, it held fairly steady. Recently, it's shifted left a bit.
Garrett78
Dec 2019
#10
Absolutely yes in the wake of the Reagan era, but the pendulum has made a swing
bullwinkle428
Dec 2019
#13
Yes, we've been picking up moderate Repubs who have been forced out of their party...
Wounded Bear
Dec 2019
#14
On social policy the Democratic Party has moved steadily left, economically it moved rightwards
andym
Dec 2019
#20
I'd say on environmental policy we have not, and that it was in fact that very thing
redqueen
Dec 2019
#22
Yes, indeed, we do have Ralph Nadar to "thank" for The Bush presidency, the Iraq War,
lapucelle
Jan 2020
#60
Democratic party did what it had to do to compete with filthy, disgusting cheaters
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2019
#27
Campaign finance, including dark money has affected our whole political landscape.
Dustlawyer
Dec 2019
#29