Republicans have shifted so far to the right they are off the charts

Agree?

I do... To wit

A Trump-loving insurrectionist and a convicted stalker are among 36 QAnon supporters running for Congress in 2022

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-36-qanon-supporters-running-congress-in-the-2022-midterms-2021-6

• At least 36 QAnon-supporting candidates intend to run for Congress in 2022, Media Matters said.
• Some of the candidates are diehard QAnon fans, while others signal their support subtly.
• Experts told Insider that this shows how QAnon has evolved into a major political force.

yes, we have some hard lefties in the dem camb, but they are not running the show, like those on the Right are, all with the blessings of Donald Trump, the likely 2024 nominee.

 

Maybe you've never heard of AOC?

 

The only time anyone hears about this QAnon junk is from lefties.
Who runs it?
Where is it?
Where is the website?
Who funds it?

Bet you can't answer a single question.

 

Chuck Schumer just called for violence against supreme Court justices are you okay with that?

 

Did you read my post? I said the hard left do not control the party. Influence, perhaps, but, control? nope. That's not true on the right, and that is the point.

 

when you make a claim someone said something, provide a quote (don't forget context, if important) and a link to that quote, okay?

Why? Because, for one thing it's debate courtesy and the other thing is you can't expect your debate opponents to take your word for it.

 

As far as I can tell the GOP is pretty much exactly where it was in the early 2000s policy wise.

 

There is a video on another thread that I commented on half hour or so ago I will link you to it.

 

I'm going back to the 50s, I'm 70 years of age.

they started going to the far right, starting pretty much with Reagan, at least in the neoliberal direction, but, for polarization and polemics, the ball really got going with Gingrich ( when he was speaker ) onward. that's when they really started playing hardball take no prisoners politics. No more getting along across the isle.

 

So does this convicted stalker have a felony record? Who is this person and can you run for Congress with such a record?

And by the way I use the mention function and the thread where Chuck Schumer threatens the supreme Court justices. You should be able to see it in your alerts

 

The rudder of the ship of state has been moved "full left". To get back on the best course for the USA the rudder must be moved to "full right".

 

That is your proof? We have 435 in the house and about 33 or so in the senate seats up for election. There are a number of people running for each seat and those 36 represent the republican party? You must have been listening to Rachel.

 

I have. Personally, I don't see a problem with some members of either party holding views on the outer bounds of the political spectrum. The problem arises when one party, the Repubs, begins to elect members of a lunatic fringe group like QAnon. Or people who endorse Trump's delusion that he won the election.

 

For Democrats getting along across the aisle means Republicans agreeing to play the role of Washington Generals for the Democrats Harlem Globetrotters, perennial losers there just for the show. The Democrats are outraged and hate the fact that Republicans have now learned how to fight back.

 

What a ridiculous premise. Both parties have agendas. Theoretically, Dems have an advantage in enacting their's because it is popular with the majority of Americans. What Repubs have learned to do is rule from a minority status, thwarting the will of the people.

 

If indeed the Right in America has become 'FAR-Right', then it is fully counterbalanced by the Left having become 'FAR-Left'.

The Republican Party is not quite as 'numb, dumb, and witless' as it was twenty years ago during "W" Bush, but we need intelligent, new Republican leaders to rise to top power-positions if there's to be any possibility of ever truly 'making America great again'. That will be an especially difficult challenge now that all Conservatives are coming under intense bombardment by radical, 'woke' Democrats because of the recently-leaked Supreme Court memo written by that idiot, Justice Alito....

. "Aw hell, I forgot all about elections coming up in six months...(doh!)"

 

If we had the GOP of 20 years ago, not the POT we have today, numb, dumb, witless cranks like MTG, Gosar, Trump, Gaetz, Boebert, Jordan, Cruz, etc., would be harmlessly railing about conspiratorial nonsense from a stool at the end of a bar, not the seat of power in the US.

 

Wrong. Both the House and Senate have switched party majorities since Republicans won the House in 1994. Prior to that Democrats had controlled Congress for 40 years straight. Democrats despised Gingrich for that every bit as much as they now despise Trump. Since then Republicans have actually learned how to fight. And today, we see signs of conservative ideas gradually replacing liberalism in the country, and actually, around the world. Oh, how progressives hate that.

 

Laughable. Unless by fighting you mean the post Fairness Doctrine era, coinciding with Repub's ascension, when the creation of right wing media allowed for the flooding of the public airwaves with hate filled lies and propaganda.

 

OMG, conservatives have a voice. That shouldn't be allowed.

 

You never fail to misconstrue everything. It's not a matter of having a voice. It's a matter of having media outlets that espouse the kinds of extremist views, largely based on bigotry and or misinformation, that have been adopted by the base of the party. A party that's embraced an amoral, pathological lying, corrupt, incompetent, opportunist who tried to overthrow the elected government of the US.

 

There are those who think both parties have shifted off the political spectrum, one to the right and the other to the left. Both major parties have exiled most of their moderates where only ideologues remain. This is the reason independents have risen from 30% in 2006 up to 40% today and rising as both major parties continue to shrink. If you’re not an ideologue, if you don’t pass a ton of litmus tests, you’re not welcomed in either party.

Of course, if you’re still a member of either party, an ideologue, you think your political philosophy is mainstream. You’re blinded by the tree in front of you, totally unable to see there is a forest beyond that tree. Ideologues are causing the destruction of this nation and each major party now views the other as this nation’s number one enemy. More of an enemy than Russia, Iran, North Korea, China, terrorist, just because their political beliefs doesn’t match theirs.

Your post is solid proof of this, the Republicans in their responses on this site is enough proof from them that they are the same as you and other Democrats in their hard core ideological, ideologue beliefs.

 

Exactly what do you mean by "running the show"? One could point to examples of Biden giving in to the far left on the Democratic side of the aisle -- the likes of AOC (who publicly stated she could push Joe to her agenda) being examples, but what examples do you have whereby the far right (extremists) have pushed Trump to implement their agenda (which I'm not sure what that really is).

 

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