Election 2020

[Bob Butler 54]

(08-24-2020, 07:15 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(08-24-2020, 06:40 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(08-24-2020, 06:09 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: The pendulum in the USA swung right in 1980 and has never swung back. Your view on this is the polar opposite of the truth. Progress has been stalled for 40 years of Republican control.

True on the large scale, if you are talking Gilded Age, FDR through LBJ, Nixon through Trump.  Less true if you look at the smaller swings of the see saw within the unraveling.

Of course if you are counting the small unraveling swings we have swung beyond the right into Never Never Land.

The left swings provided by the first years of Clinton and first year of Obama were swings to the center, and for the rest of the 40 years we were swinging ever-rightward leading to where we are, never never land.

It is just that depending on where and when you developed your worldview, you will place the center in a different place. The left, center, right labels get a bit crazy if you try to include too large a difference.