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Pew: Dems 60% more liberal than they were in 1994. GOP only 8% more conservative
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Date: August 20th, 2018 2:28 PM Author: Sickened boyish boltzmann Reminder whenever libs try to tell you that conservatives are the ones getting more "extreme," not libs.
http://www.people-press.org/interactives/political-polarization-1994-2017/
https://www.facebook.com/UnbiasedAmerica/videos/277274813100925/ PEW: DEMS ARE 60% MORE LIBERAL THAN THEY WERE IN 1994; REPUBLICANS ARE 8% MORE CONSERVATIVE by Kevin Ryan
A common criticism from both parties has been that the other has become radicalized. Listen to just about any campaign speech and you’ll hear the time-tested demagoguery about how the opposition party is no longer moderate, but instead espouses views from the extreme. So I decided to see whether that’s actually the case.
The Pew Research Center does a poll asking Americans about their beliefs on a variety of issues. When plotted on a graph and then animated to show how ideologies have shifted over time, an eye-opening picture emerges. Since 1994, Republicans are only about 8% more conservative in their beliefs. Democrats, meanwhile, are fully 60% more liberal, with the median Democrat now closer to the far left than the center.
It wasn’t always this way. In 1994, the median Democrat was a centrist, holding views that were 50% traditionally liberal, and 50% traditionally conservative. The median Republican was only about 10% more conservative than the median Democrat.
Since that time, Republicans shifted left, and were the centrist party in 2004, before drifting back to the right. Today they are just slightly more conservative than in 1994.
Democrats, meanwhile, continue to move left, with the biggest surge coming between 2011 and 2017.
Today the two parties are more polarized than at any time in at least a generation. The rise of the internet echo chamber has allowed each side to hear only what it wants to hear, without dissenting views to challenge their beliefs. It’s a trend that doesn’t look to let up any time soon. |
Date: August 20th, 2018 2:29 PM Author: up-to-no-good elastic band parlor Republicans are actually less conservative (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4056230&forum_id=2#36649272) |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 2:30 PM Author: Sick Twinkling Piazza Keepsake Machete Taking Gay marriage off the table kinda took a lot of wind out of their sails.
Now they just have guns and messicans to bitch about. |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 2:31 PM Author: Sickened boyish boltzmann so, 8%? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4056230&forum_id=2#36649287) |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 2:32 PM Author: Smoky bossy headpube Obvious to anyone who isn't a complete hack (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4056230&forum_id=2#36649292) |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 2:36 PM Author: thriller dingle berry Libs in 1994: "stop with the slippery slope stuff, we just want equal rights for..."
Libs in 2018: "... preferred pronouns are zhe/zhim/zher." |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:08 PM Author: haunting stock car trailer park (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4056230&forum_id=2#36649514) |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 2:40 PM Author: aphrodisiac brunch uh, the GOP is *OBJECTIVELY* less conservative and more LIBERAL than it has ever been. Trump's 'we need a border and we need to deport illegals' rhetoric was something BILL CLINTON was saying in 1994. today, saying this will put you on the GOP shit list. |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 2:43 PM Author: up-to-no-good elastic band parlor Cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4056230&forum_id=2#36649386) |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 2:46 PM Author: Nighttime Bespoke University The illegal immigrant talk is the same rhetoric Chuck Schumer was just using during the Obama Administration.
The Dems' greater movement on the idealogical spectrum is due to demographics. |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 2:48 PM Author: aphrodisiac brunch Pat Buchanan gave the 'culture war' speech to rousing applause at the 1992 GOP convention, denouncing the left's embrace of 'homosexual rights,' etc. he would be run off the stage as a 'nazi' by his own party today if he tried to give that same speech. |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:03 PM Author: Green office I don't think there are a lot of people left who would try to defend the kind of statute that was in question in Bowers. You can argue about states' rights all you want but the underlying statute, I think, would seem very antiquated to most people and even most conservatives. Does this mean that liberals are more liberal than ever and conservatives are more centrist? I'm not really sure what this study is measuring. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4056230&forum_id=2#36649471) |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:04 PM Author: up-to-no-good elastic band parlor Both sides have moved left (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4056230&forum_id=2#36649480) |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:07 PM Author: heady adulterous crotch personal credit line (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4056230&forum_id=2#36649509) |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:24 PM Author: Autistic Marketing Idea “Demographics” haven’t shifted that much in 8 years. It has much more to do with the social media mob driving the agenda. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4056230&forum_id=2#36649645) |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:28 PM Author: Exhilarant round eye cuckoldry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4056230&forum_id=2#36649674) |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:32 PM Author: Nighttime Bespoke University That's true. But demographics have changed a good bit in the 24 years since 1994, and more minorities in the Dem party feed the virtue signaling (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4056230&forum_id=2#36649693) |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:19 PM Author: Violent Purple Filthpig Plaza because "conservative" and "liberal" have lost all meaning (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4056230&forum_id=2#36649597) |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:30 PM Author: up-to-no-good elastic band parlor This is true. Now it just breaks down to pro-white and anti-white (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4056230&forum_id=2#36649683) |