Must Read! The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America Is a Myth

[Sparkly]

The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America Is a Myth

Conventional wisdom says that the American public is fundamentally conservative - hostile to government, in favor of unregulated markets, at peace with inequality, wanting a foreign policy based on the projection of military power, and traditional in its social values.

But as this report demonstrates, that picture is fundamentally false. Media perceptions and past Republican electoral successes notwithstanding, Americans are progressive across a wide range of controversial issues, and they're growing more progressive all the time.

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In short, a look across the scope of American public opinion reveals a public that holds progressive positions and supports progressive solutions on economic issues, on social issues, on security issues - indeed, on nearly all the key issues confronting the country. For years, the conventional wisdom has maintained just the opposite, but the facts are impossible to ignore.

Summary at Media Matters:
http://mediamatters.org/progmaj/?f=h_top

The Report:
http://mediamatters.org/progmaj/report

[Buzz Clik]

1. Facts may have a liberal bias, but they don't play well to the American public.

The Conservative America may be a myth, but lots of folks are buying into it. Not unlike the Creation Museum.

[seemslikeadream]

2. Folks love fairytales

always a happy ending, so easy to sleep at night after a good bedtime story.

[thethinker]

3. Quiet please.

Our centrist democrats, that are trying to move the party to the right, don't want to hear any facts.

[Sparkly]

4. I dunno -- seems like so-called centrists on DU would agree with these positions

but I'm let them speak for themselves. :shrug: