Why is The USA shifting leftward

[Rockefeller GOP]

Name a single issue, other than gay marriage and perhaps drugs, where we are to the left of where we were a generation ago.  There aren't any!

Public opinion is, but public policy isn't.

The abortion issue is the one that I am most familiar with, and public opinion is far more pro-life than 20 years ago.

It's still 50/50, actually.

It's 50-50 now, as opposed to like 2-1 pro-choice in the 1990s.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx

More people consider themselves pro-life, yes, but that's irrelevant when it doesn't correlate to an increase in the number of people saying it should be illegal in all circumstances.

The first graph is much more important.

Saying it should be illegal in all cases is as extreme and stupid as saying it should be available on demand right up until a week before delivery, though I'm guessing this site is way more sympathetic to the latter view.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Also, rural areas really aren't shifting leftward. Granted, the rural areas are also losing population.

The rural areas aren't shifting leftwards because they're losing most of their gay liberals as well as their women, any other questions?

We're in a period where rural areas are very open to conservatism ... That's not true everywhere in the US, it hasn't always been true and it won't always be true in the future.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Also, rural areas really aren't shifting leftward. Granted, the rural areas are also losing population.

The rural areas aren't shifting leftwards because they're losing most of their gay liberals as well as their women, any other questions?

We're in a period where rural areas are very open to conservatism ... That's not true everywhere in the US, it hasn't always been true and it won't always be true in the future.

Looooolz, what an answer. That was seriously the best you could give?

... What are you even talking about?  That response was OC-status.