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Has the Democratic Party moved to the left over the last 30 years & if so, do you see this development in a favorable or unfavorable light?

Poll - Total Votes: 33

Yes, favorable

Yes, unfavorable

You can only vote on one answer.

Comments and arguments are welcome. Healthy debates thrive on input.
Debates open a venue to specify where changes on policy positions can be seen or why most things stayed the same.

Definitional: The left-right axis is complicated but to simplify it “left” in the context of this poll is supposed to refer to positions that support less restrictive and traditional cultural norms on social issues and more support for active government intervention to influence the economy and control the free market on fiscal issues. Regarding foreign policy, it would mean less hawkish and more dovish positions on international affairs.

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

This is not putting the whole situation in the correct light because it's totally one sided.

Yes, the democratic party has gone a bit to the left. Yet this is a total responce to the Republican party's far more radical swing to the right and into dictatorship.

Few wish to remember how Ross Perot affected the Republican party in 1992, thirty two years ago.

Yet that is exactly the origins of Trumpism.
Trump is no more a Republican than Ross Perot was a Republican!

That was why Democrats HAD to move to the left.

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CedricH · 22-25, M

@DeWayfarer To clarify. This poll is not meant to look at the parties development relative to each other but to where they stood 30 years. It‘s not meant to pre-judge anything either.

Still, you make a very interesting point on Ross Perot and Trump. Could you explain why the GOP adopting Perot‘s ideas forced the Democrats to move to the left?

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@CedricH then include the Republican party if you wish to be unbiased!

It's lopsided!

CedricH · 22-25, M

@DeWayfarer it isn’t meant to be about the Republican Party. It looks singularly at the Democratic Party. Besides, if I added the Republican Party and participants were to agree that they moved to the right, that by itself wouldn’t necessarily justify any leftward shift of the Democratic Party. This poll is merely meant to ascertain whether that shift has occurred at all and if so where. You can use the comment section to try and justify and explain it if you‘d like.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@CedricH your purpose is to put the democratic party in a bad light.

Because you only mentioned the democratic party!

There's no way around this!

CedricH · 22-25, M

@DeWayfarer No. That‘s not my purpose. It‘s an analytical question. Suppose I had left-leaning ideals (which is possible, how would you know) then I might actually approve of such a development if it, in fact, transpired. Which is the first option in my poll.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@CedricH I gave my analysis!

You're pushing Republicans!

CedricH · 22-25, M

@DeWayfarer Your analysis is appreciated. I don’t see how I‘m pushing Republicans, it‘s not a leading or loaded question and the poll doesn’t pre-judge anything and doesn’t indicate a preference for any particular alternative.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@CedricH put in Republicans in it then!

You won't!

CedricH · 22-25, M

@DeWayfarer Do you really not understand the point I‘ve repeatedly trying to make in our conversation? This poll is meant to simply look at how people think the Democratic Party developed programmatically over the last 30 years. Nothing more, nothing less.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@CedricH incomplete leading questions is nothing more than that!

Is H2O2 a more radical form of water? Yes!

So is H2O3!

CedricH · 22-25, M

@DeWayfarer okay, well. I disagree. There‘s nothing leading about it and it‘s not incomplete if it‘s supposed to analyze the development of one organization independent of the environment around it.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@CedricH without comparisons it's a leading question!

In a legal court of law leading questions are not permitted!

CedricH · 22-25, M

@DeWayfarer No. It would be leading if the question itself was encouraging a certain outcome. It doesn’t.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@CedricH it is leading without comparisons from the opposite direction.

CedricH · 22-25, M

@DeWayfarer It is possible to look at each party‘s development independently from one another. The fact that this is about the Democratic Party doesn’t make it a leading question. You should read up on what a leading question actually is.

Gibbon · 70-79, M

@DeWayfarer AS a republican reading this you're way off base. The poster is specifically talking about the left and has not biased the question for or against them. Republicans do not need to be mentioned for this discussion.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@CedricH it's not looking at the whole picture!

And I said that!

CedricH · 22-25, M

@Gibbon Thank you.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Gibbon and now the gang up! 🤣

ron122 · 41-45, M

@DeWayfarer Wow you sure do whine a lot.

Gibbon · 70-79, M

@DeWayfarer How about grow up and get over it.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@ron122 this is about the OPs lopsidedness!

And now the lopsidedness is getting worse! 🤣

CedricH · 22-25, M

@DeWayfarer Just so we understand one another. I also think that it wouldn’t be leading if I only asked about the Republican Party‘s trajectory.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Gibbon yes! Let's Republicans grow up and not gang up on single commitmentors!

How childish to not let someone defend their own post!

Gibbon · 70-79, M

@DeWayfarer That's as your warped mind sees it. It's actually not what's going on here. I am actually interested in the responses and your interjection is just rude and irresponsible.

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