Reply #3: I think that he is right.

[DemExpat]

I have seen this playing out in Dutch politics - after 20 years of leftist policies the pendulum has swung back to the middle-right.
Excesses of leftist administrations reached a saturation point where the people finally got fed up and brought an end to it.

Although there already is a clamoring towards the left....and a sense that people are not loyal to a party or political thought anymore - too complicated/complex to understand all of the increasing factors involved!

This historical pendulum effect can only happen in a fairly honest democratic system, though, and in the US (the whole world?) I have grave doubts.

DemEx

edit: perhaps the swing of the pendulum in the US is simply much l-o-n-g-e-r now :-).....this present rightwing swing resulting from the years of relative progressive policy from the 1960s........... :shrug: