Democrats today are more likely to say they want their party to become moderate than they were four years ago, according to a Gallup poll published Thursday. The survey, conducted in the first week of President Trump’s second term, gauged partisan preferences on the ideological direction of respondents’ respective parties. Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, 45 percent say they want their party to become more moderate, while 29 percent say they want the party to become more liberal, and 22 percent say they want the party to stay the same.
Is “Moderate” code for more to the right now?
It doesn’t get much more moderate than democrats for Christ sake!Is “Moderate” code for more to the right now?
“Moderate” means “closer to the other party” in US politics.
And the other party in this case is… well…
Except Republicans have been psychopaths for decades, and there is absolutely nothing moderate about nearing them.
When it’s used as you describe it’s a misnomer. Which should be VERY clear now that Republicans have moved towards fascism.
Who the fuck can argue that nearing fascism is moderate?
Media that use the terms this way need to be called out and ridiculed for it.Republicans have been psychopaths for decades
Generalizing there a bit?
I straight don’t buy that these results accurately reflect the opinion of non boomer voters. If this is accurate then the country and the species are done for, we cannot continue on the path we’re currently on without radical change to the status quo whether thats what people want or not. This is make or break for the future and it looks like we’re all currently content to let it break even if it means the end.
There are millions of Americans who really want a non-crazy conservative to vote for. There are millions of people who just want to have a non-crazy person win an election, so their idea is that the only way the opposition to crazy Republicans to be able to win over some of those people on the right is by moving closer to them. They just want to stop losing to the crazies. There are millions who are OK with gay people but hate that the government spends too much money on everything.
America is a very conservative country, and even the Democrats are basically very conservative.
Those people who complained that the Democrats would have beat Trump if they had just moved more left have no idea how much the rest of the country doesn’t feel like them.
This is what I hear and it’s not a dig at you but the Democratic party: "Let’s try the things that didn’t work harder, rather than something that worked for Roosevelt to Nixon?!”
I have no idea what the solution is, but whatever the Democrats are doing right now isn’t working. I would LOVE for them to move further left AND win because of it. It would not only take the country in the right direction but would also feel less like the country is permanently fucked up. I would ACCEPT for them to move further right in order to win back control. I wouldn’t be happy, but at least we could get some sane people back in control.
This country has 100 million people who don’t care enough about anything to bother voting at all, 80 million of whom aren’t even registered to vote even though they are eligible. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to see what’s going on right now and not care about voting to fix it. There are 70 million people who are HAPPY about what Trump is doing. Our country is fucked if 170 million people are either happy or don’t care about what is happening.
70 MN who are happy? Is that why the sitting president felt the need to tweet that republicans showing up at their R reps town halls were paid troublemakers? These are bipartisan turnouts.
Even if they’re pissed off, they’re still happy they got to “own the libs”.
They will always vote for that over their own self interest.
Isn’t gallup one of those pollsters that still uses landline surveying? That’s got to skew the numbers.
Also people not being remotely politcally engaged doesn’t help much either.
“I vote democrat because the alternative are shitty and racist, but I am worried about this DEI, CRT, CBT, Trans stuff my weird uncle posted on Facebook”
democrats are doing cock and ball torture?
They would have won the White House if they endorsed it more.
