People's Convention 2020

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sundin13 said:

sc94597 said:

"Vote lesser of two evils" has been the major strategy for the last fifty years. The result has been that politics in the United States has been shifting rightward due to the ratchet effect. The DNC's convention literally was just Bush Republicans (circa 2005) returning into politics as Democrats. 

Is it accurate to say that the United States has been shifting rightward? Just curious, but do you have evidence of that?

On political-economy and if we are talking about elected politicians I think it is pretty uncontroversial that neo-liberalism has dominated both parties and shifted the overton window to the right. 

Both Clintons, Obama, Gore and Biden were all further right than Johnson, Carter, Mondale, Kennedy and McGovern on political-economy. Reagan, both Bushes, and Trump were all further right than Nixon, Ford, and Eisenhower on political-economy. 

The population itself hasn't shifted right-ward, but in an undemocratic plutocracy (which is what exists in the U.S) that doesn't matter. 

Last edited by sc94597 - on 22 August 2020