Thursday Toon Roundup 1: War for Peace

[MohRokTah]

79. Both parties are fluid.

Overall, both parties have been moved to the right since 1999. This was primarily due to the fact that a mass exodus of people on the left to the Green Party in 2000 lead to electoral defeat for the Democratic candidate in 2000. This resulted in a massive move to the right for both parties to fill the void left by that exodus.

The Democratic Party shifted somewhat to the left in the wake of the Iraq war, though the ground lost from 2000 has never been made up since. This was further exasperated by the far right's propensity to back George W. Bush's every move regardless during this time period, thus solidifying the power of the right in the Republican Party.

The Democratic party moved even more to the left and was on the brink of actually making up the lost ground when Barack Obama was elected. Then, the left abandoned Obama en masse beginning immediately after the election and continuing ever since. This has forced the party back to the right.

The left has a lot to learn about how national politics works. It would help if the left got involved more with local politics. The right has learned the lesson that by taking control locally, they can exert their will on the majority nationally via mechanisms for drawing districts and voting laws.

The left still ahsn't learned this lesson, and we pay for it with an overall right of center national politics when the country would be more left of center if the left ever got its shit together.