I just read an amazing post on quora.com to: "Do conservatives ever become liberal?"

[beachbum bob]

3. its possible but rare from observations on politics over the last 5 decades.

I have seen it happen a few times but most people are firmly entrench within their own dogma. America is not a center-right country but the right has been the most active for 3 decades and the left has gone soft and lazy...until this trump thing and why we see democratic wins in deep red districts since trump was elected.

We need to convince the great "center" that the "right" has failed and failed big on all levels. But remember we are up against the corporations and good deal of the wealthy in putting the message out. Newspapers no longer play the same role, same with TV/cable news. The elimination of the fairness doctrine began the path for "fake news" to take over with players like foxnews and rush limbaugh, etc.

a real grassroots uprising must happen at each election, we on the "left" must always coalesce around our candidates..this bullshit of not "supporting the lesser of 2 evils" has to end. We have to the big tent party...accepting the entire range of thoughts, opinions and policies.

we can have our debates but in the end, we must unify at each and every election and who knows, perhaps in 1-2 years we have a huge majority going for us in congress where real change could happen with a democratic president