People's Convention 2020

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sc94597 said:

sundin13 said:

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."

At the time, the Republican Party was mostly on the left of the Democratic party. Really shows how much the party shifted to the right since Reagan...