NationStates Jolt Archive


A GIANT step towards the center

Ultraextreme Sanity
08-11-2006, 19:21
The United States after years of fundamentalist and right wing politics took a huge giant step back to wards the center last night.
Although the vast majority of Democrats elected were of the conservative type...in fact recruited to take away the gay marriage / guncontroll / pro life edge the republicans were always given..the same edge that gave us raving conservative lunatics like Rick Santorum...a guy who compared homosexuality with pooch buggering and took advantage of a dying womens dignity and her privacy in the name of " the right to life " .
Also consider all the mistakes this administration has made since the " war " part of the invasion of Iraq ended. Too numerous and enough to explode my head. Bush got re-elected despite the " no WMD " thing because he had a Liberal buffoon , ex radical leftist , lying about his new found ability to be a " tough military national security type" , despite his entire life spent to the contrary...with even his service in Vietnam open for argument . That and the fact the man flipped more than a pancake.
Americans are not ready to be left wing..if they ever will be. Although I hear in Vermont they elected a socialist . Wow...it took forever but we did it . You would think among the three hundred million of us there would be enough to elect one Socialist . Wonder how many Libertarians were elected ?
I don't know about the rest of you but I feel much better today than I did yesterday about the direction the country is headed in .
Back to the center and moderation and away from the radical left and radical right wing politics that have dominated the political scene in the US since 1994 .
Its a great leap forward for stem cell research and getting the ideologues out of our education system...no more talk of "I.D." being taught in schools I imagine .
The President got spanked by the public for his blunders , the public ...when given suitable candidates ..spanked the crap out him by going Democrat , now if that could somehow CURE the eminent domain fiasco and restore some order to the supreme court , that would be a blessing.
But the bottom line is this , we have a congress full of a majority of like minded people ...not so much liberal versus conservative as we had before , this should translate to bipartisan cooperation and moderate and fair lawmaking , and a much better congress than we had before .
The commitment to Iraq still stands . But with this election the current crop of Iraqi leaders were sent a message along with President Bush. The message being " GET YOUR CRAP TOGETHER OR WE ARE OUT OF HERE " . They have a choice unite and live or divide and die. we did our part we lead the horse to water ...now lets see if it drinks.
I took a look ( when I wasn't dancing around with a light shade on my head with the interns and other volunteers ). At the rest of the democratic candidates in other states , most Mirrored senator Casey..solid moderate to conservative Americans..who happen to be democrats . Not a wing nut among them for the most part. Hey even JOE LIEBERMAN got elected !
He deserved it , he being not only a good man but a moderate and a strong supporter of this country and its security , just like the huge majority of Democrats that were elected with him .
It will be interesting to see who the Dem's come up with as a candidate in 2008 and to see if they learned from this victory . The Republicans I hope learned a lesson . but human nature being what it is they will more than likely blame BUSH...hey everyone else does..
Wallonochia
08-11-2006, 19:28
Although I hear in Vermont they elected a socialist . Wow...it took forever but we did it . You would think among the three hundred million of us there would be enough to elect one Socialist .

Bernie Sanders was first elected to Federal office in 1991.
Gui de Lusignan
08-11-2006, 19:37
This election if anything else is a sign of things to come.. mainly being, if Democrats want to stay in the game, they actually have to move to the right. Its true this election brings us more to the center, but that center is shifting more right with every passing year.

Remember, Democrats didn't take this win. The Republicans handed it to them. And now that some if not much of the corrupt (and neo-cons) were removed, you will probably see more republican victories in 08 as the people continue to vote for conservatives.
Ultraextreme Sanity
08-11-2006, 19:46
I dont think Americans will stand for anything but a moderate to conservative government. Its just not in our make up. The problem was it took the Democrats forever to learn a liberal could only win in limited areas of the country and they lost power because of it. remember they had controll for 40 years by being CONSEVATIVES to moderate. They lost power when they went too far left. Now the Republicans learned what will happen if you go too far right.

You get CURB STOMPED ;)
Ollieland
08-11-2006, 19:54
It kind of mirrors what happened in my country, the UK, in the 1980s. There was a huge polarisation of the country as both main political parties turned to the extremes of politics (Thatcher and Foot / Kinnock). It was only in the early - mid 1990s we learned the lesson that the middle ground has to be followed to at least have an attempt at making everyone happy. Will America learn a lesson from this and todays election result? That remains to be seen.
Ultraextreme Sanity
08-11-2006, 20:03
It kind of mirrors what happened in my country, the UK, in the 1980s. There was a huge polarisation of the country as both main political parties turned to the extremes of politics (Thatcher and Foot / Kinnock). It was only in the early - mid 1990s we learned the lesson that the middle ground has to be followed to at least have an attempt at making everyone happy. Will America learn a lesson from this and todays election result? That remains to be seen.



Stop stepping on my optimism ;) :)

9 states passed measures to curb eminent domain as proposed by the supreme idiots and even South Dakato overwhelmingly defeated a bill that would have effectively banned all abortion.

Remember the movie where the guy opens up his window and yells " I am as MAD as hall and I am not going to take it anymore " ?


Thats this election in a nutshell.