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Originally Posted by mikesouth
right now we are in a swing to the left for sure
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You are on some good drugs. The US is drifting further and further to the right. Many of Obama's policies are old school Republican stances. Jesus, "Obamacare" is a fucking ultraconservative HERITAGE FOUNDATION policy but the country has moved so far to the right people can be led into believing it's "socialism".
Yeah Obama will warrantlessly wiretap you, drone bomb US citizens, get in bed with WALLSTREET, work to cut entitlements, not support the slightest amount of progressive policy but hey after testing the waters he now supports gay marriage so he's a "socialist". By almost any economic measure America is less "socialist" than 50 years ago and more right wing.
On issues like gay marriage and weed, yeah it's moving towards what you might think of as "left" as they are "liberal" policies but remember those issues are also issues right wing libertarians don't give a shit about. That's a whole other political axis.