01-27-2017, 11:53 PM
(01-27-2017, 10:02 PM)taramarie Wrote:(01-27-2017, 09:57 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The John Birch Society, long considered extreme and ludicrous to conservatives, has stayed as far to the Right as possible without delving into calls for genocide (including enslavement or extermination) except perhaps against Communists. The Republican Party has gone so far to the Right that it and the Birch Society are now hard to distinguish.
I have heard that both left and right wing have become more extreme over the years. Not sure if that is true or not.
There is certainly less willingness to compromise. Yes, prejudice that was accepted as normal in FDR's time would generate outrage today. The civil rights and women's movements since the Awakening reflect vastly different expectations among the modern blue population. Aspects of red culture have been dragged in the direction of equality quite some distance. Given how stubborn and irrational cultures can act, it shouldn't be surprising that they are digging in and refusing to budge for a time. In this, I'm not speaking only of the red culture. The blue belief in equality is stubborn too.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.