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In reply to the discussion: What the MSM and Democrats won't ever state openly. [View all]dugog55
(296 posts)are moderate. The MSM and The GOP think people like AOC and Sanders are Far Left Socialists. Looking at it from world viewpoint, they are moderately left, the rest of the Dems are dead in the center, or even slightly right of where we were 50 years ago. The GOP however drove off the right side of the scale. They are so far right you can barely see them.
Before Reagan, I would say over half of all Representatives were in the center, Dems and Republicans. The others leaned slightly to the left or right. The Dems have pretty much stayed planted where they were, but Reagan, the Christian Right, and the influence of the NRA drove a majority to the deep, dark Conservative side. They were also pushed right because the Dems thought that women, blacks and LGBT people were Americans and should be treated as such. The GOP was none to fond of the Civil Rights Acts or accepting of POC.