Reply #175: My strategy is to move the middle to the left. [View All]

[zoeyfong]

My goal is to continuously move the center of politics leftward, and over the long term it is happening; you name it- ending slavery, ending property requirements for voting, allowing direct election of senators, granting women nearly equal rights, improving worker rights and safety, giving gay people more rights, getting prayer out of the schools, etc.- all these things happened because some busybodies wouldn't just shut up and let the status quo go unquestioned, and quite often those busybodies started up north and moved southward, not the other way around. Look i live in a very red state (overall) (SD), and i would freely apply everything i said (with a few minor distinctions) about the south to SD and other red mountain states. The fact that i live here is not going to prevent me from speaking the truth about it. I ask you, if northern liberals had not agitated for causes such as racial and gender equality, when do you think the south would have got around to doing it? I would love to see howard dean come out here and speak to dems and repubs alike, and i don't care what tom daschle thinks about it.