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

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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.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

I'm British.

IMO, it kind of has but with heavy caveats.

There is an economic populist wing: social democrats led by AOC and Bernie Sanders but they have very few elected representatives. The party has definitely moved to the left on social issues.

However, the centrist neoliberal wing remains insitutionally dominant and you saw that in the election.