Can anything be done to turn this country back to the left?

[DevotedDemocrat]

What can be done to stop the 30+ year slow, gradual shift to the far right that American politics has undergone since at least the Reagan years, if not going back to the Nixon years? Can anything be done to curb the nation back toward the left, or at least the center?

[DevotedDemocrat]

Regardless of who or what I am, can it not be said that politics in this country has slowly drifted to the right since sometime around the mid 1970s? With Clinton greatly helping the GOP achieve it's ends during the 1990s and Obama compromising on so much? And could it not be said that the GOP is the furthest to the right that it's been since the Goldwater nomination in 1964?

I would say that the Ronald Reagan of 1980 would look like a moderate in today's GOP. And what makes it worse is that unlike 1964, the far right actually is influencing politics, not being sidelined and pilloried.

Look at how for example the elimination or at least drastic reduction in the funding of Food Stamps is on the table. In 1993 I think any major legislator calling for an end to Food Stamps would find himself losing in the next election.

Instead of mocking a voice seeking some way to effect true Liberal change, let's work together.

I feel Obama had the greatest opportunity to effect real liberal change in this country of any President since FDR. He had an economic crisis which was and could be successfully laid at the feet of the opposition; If he had done it correctly he could've brought as great and revolutionary change to this country as the New Deal and effectively castrated the far right, made right wing economics the scapegoat for the economic crisis. He gave us a little, but not as much as he could've.

 

[DevotedDemocrat]

It seems in the last few months this board has gone from a left leaning board to having tons of right wingers, to the point that it's denied that this country is even slightly further to the right than it was say in 1973. That I would say this country has drifted rightward since the '70s is almost deemed heresy.