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> Instead, what we observe is that our political center has been moved further and further into the Republican Party, ever since the '70s. Perhaps in an econom
by zeveb 10y ago
> Instead, what we observe is that our political center has been moved further and further into the Republican Party, ever since the '70s.
Perhaps in an economic sense, but hardly in a cultural sense (other than guns, is there a single Republican cultural issue which has been winning against its Democratic inverse?).
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoYou're right: the cultural center has shifted glacially to the left over time, with erratic jumps back to the right when the Republicans actually hold supermajority power, followed by further gradual leftward drift when they lose it. Though in an economic sense, yeah, my original point stands. And actually, it's strengthened in a way: how can we talk about the median voter theorem pushing the parties to the center if they spent the whole most recent party system both moving strongly to the right on economic issues while moving erratically but consistently to the left on social issues? That would mean there isn't even one center!