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sc94597 on 22 August 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? (Something more academic than anecdotal preferably)

To expand on my previous reply, Biden doesn't support universal healthcare (no his anemic public option which lobbyists are trying to get rid of doesn't cover everyone), meanwhile Gerald Ford (a Republican) supported a national health insurance bill. 

https://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Gerald_Ford_Health_Care.htm

"In his first address to Congress after succeeding Nixon, President Gerald Ford urged lawmakers to approve a national health insurance bill, but President Ford's short tenure was dominated by high inflation and other economic woes."

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