| You say "Neither of these movements have any sense of self-awareness or American history" And then, without a shred of irony, suggest that a progressive, non-white, woman, will be president soon. The "pendulum swinging" theory that a lot of people are clinging to is nonsense. It presupposes that this hard right movement is a reaction to some previous left swing, and there will be a hard left swing. But there is no previous left swing. There's been consistent rightward movement in the US since the Civil Rights Act. The republican party suffered after Nixon admitted to doing some crime and the republican party has taken every effort to ensure that would never happen again, and they have wildly succeeded. Bush Jr suffered no punishment for explicitly waging illegal wars against sovereign nations. Trump received no punishment for blatant self-enrichment and the 170 republican house reps that voted to ignore the 2020 election did not face any punishment either. Reagan hasn't even had his legacy tarnished despite being pretty much solely responsible for the economic pain rural americans feel, ignoring the AIDS epidemic even after the committee he made told him how to improve the situation, destroyed our tax revenue, helped spur an every decade economic crisis, kneecapping any chance we had of preventing climate change from being a problem, and spent money we never had on boondoggles that never had a chance of success like SDI. The people who insist DEI are a real problem will never vote for AOC. They've all lapped up the right wing propaganda with absolutely no self reflection, and believe "The left has gone too far" by..... investing the the country's infrastructure and not spending 24/7 screaming about the terrors of trans people. The general public gets their opinion of democrats from right wing propaganda. People who historically would support democrats and explicitly support things democrats push for have chosen to get all their info from republicans. It's not democrats passing bills that legislate who is allowed to use which bathroom, but it is somehow democrats that have "gone too far". |