A Democrat and Republican are standing on the beach

[edhopper]

The Republican starts walking to the right, he walks very far to the right. The Democrat stands where he was always standing.
A voter comes along and says to the Democrat. "Why don't you walk closer to the Republican so you can be more in the middle."

[wordstroken]

1. Nailed it!

[democrank]

2. Bullseye!

A perfect example of real-life politics

[brush]

3. Correct.

[Bettie]

4. That's where we are

and then a crowd of Republicans and Democrats forms....the Republicans move even farther than the first guy and most of the Dems follow, but don't go quite as far. The Democrats still hanging out where they stared are now "too far to the Left", even though they never moved.

[GopherGal]

5. Is it a voter or a reporter?

Possibly a voter who has get getting his news solely from Faux News for the last decade.

[Gimpyknee]

6. A reporter works better. And it doesn't mean just a Fox News one either.

[GopherGal]

15. Agree.

The indoctrination by Faux was my proposed explanation for why a voter might behave in such a way.

I almost phrased it as being a CNN or M$M reporter in memory of the M$M harranging Kamala to do a sit-down interview last summer.

[orchidlady]

19. the pundits

imho, they're the ones who should be targeted here.
reporters are most often behind the scenes beating the shoe leather to the pavement; to my eyes it's the pundits whose mugs are on the tv screen while the reporters rarely get the credit they deserve. moreover, it's the pundits who've been nagging dems for over two decades to do that "right shot" that has pushed the overton window into maga and Q territory.

[Layzeebeaver]

7. Then they all three died instantly because of the sea rise.

[nilram]

8. And then the Democrat does it.

Creating a tragedy out of comedy.

[Permanut]

9. Meanwhile, hundreds of people are watching..

from the parking area. One of those observers comments to another "Look, those two people on the beach are standing exactly the same distance from the water. They're both older white males, about the same height, walk at the same pace and are similarly dressed. They look exactly the same to me".

[OldBaldy1701E]

22. Hear Hear!

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[chouchou]

10. " Cause I don't want to think like a cockroach"

[SleeplessinSoCal]

11. Watched 1776 again on Friday

The Cool, Cool Considerate Men with the refrain "to the right, ever to the right, never to the left, forever to the right" hit me hard in 1971 when I first saw it. Today it just validates our politics, lockstep and all.

The congressional custodian asks at the end of it "How would you like to try to borrow a dollar from one of them?"

This was written around 1969.

Such great theater.

[mwooldri]

12. Now all I wanna see...

is a Democratic Socialist come up to the voter and say "listen here you little shit..." Cos that person would be me, wanting to beat some sense into that voter, ask them why they ain't been paying any attention.

[betsuni]

13. A voter comes along and says to the Democrat, "Why didn't you stop the Republican from walking so

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far to the right?"

Another voter comes up to the Democrat and berates them for walking with the Republican far to the right and doesn't listen when the Democrat says they haven't moved to the right, you can SEE I haven't, but the voter won't listen and spends the next two hours berating them for bad messaging and being centrist and neoliberals and not progressive and beholden to monsters and what they should do and that if they don't the voter will teach them a lesson and send a message by not voting and the Democrat walks into the ocean.

[LiberalLovinLug]

14. The Democrat listens to the right thinkers and accepts "the third way" as a solution

And follows the Republican a ways to the right and stops. Waiting for the Republican to walk back to them.

And waits.

And then watches the Republican, offended that he has to stand so close to the Democrat, move even further away to the right.

So the Democrat once again moves closer to the Republican.

And waits.

And the Republican, disgusted, moves so far away, out of their traditional right wing space, and enters the Fascism space.

The Democrat waits again, contemplating just how much further they can risk moving without losing their base of support. They decide to just be quiet, and wait longer. Surely one day the Republican will come back their way soon......right?

[edhopper]

16. So true

[Warpy]

17. And too many Democrats since Carter have fallen for it

and don't get me started on the gentlemen of the press.

This is not the country it was supposed to be.

[OldBaldy1701E]

18. "Because being 'in the middle' was a major factor in what led to this situation." (n/t)

[Jack Valentino]

20. It wasn't a "voter", it was a member of the 'main-stream media' !!!!

[rickyhall]

21. I'm walking where I've always walked and they call me radical.

[LiberalLovinLug]

24. The Logical Song by Supertramp is relevant today

"I said, watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical
A liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Oh, won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable
Respectable, oh, presentable, a vegetable
Oh, take, take, take it, yeah"

[Joinfortmill]

23. Good one!