Is it OK if parties move to the Right?

[ck4829]

There are a lot of problems if you move to the Left, but moving to the Right is apparently OK.

Meet Joe Schwarz, a moderate Republican, and considered to be a RINO by the Socio-Cons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Schwarz

He lost in the Primary to Tim Walberg, a Reactionary RW'er.

There has been a lot going on about Lamont v. Lieberman.

But, where is the outrage over THIS?

[ikojo]

1. Bbbbuuuttt...Mr Walberg is a

CHRISTIAN!!!!!

:sarcasm:

[magellan]

2. The far (authoritarian) right is virgin territory

No one really knows what lies out there, unlike the far (authoritarian) left which includes the likes of Saddam and Stalin. Take a look at the analysis of recent historical figures at Political Compass. (Scroll down -- and I'd like to add, most DUers who that test and report back here fall somewhere in the bottom left square, while anyone approximating the Pope in the upper left probably considers themselves moderate.)

The worst thing so far on the far authoritarian right is Bush**, and he keeps pushing the envelope. If you can't hold up an example and say "You don't want to be like ____", they'll just keep thinking that moving further to the right is okay.

But Bush** will become the example to avoid in future, I guarantee it.

[xchrom]

6. i would disagree re: the far right and virgin territory.

when you think of the history of jim crow and school segregation -- voting rights for women and first nations people.

we are as well acquainted with the extreme tactics of the other regimes -- what is different is that you had extraordinary citizen compliance and agreement with what happened.

not unlike our version of patriotism{read nationalism} -- it's not state sponsered but spreads of it's own accord.
it's why the populace goes along so willingly with extreme laws like the patriot act.

[NewJeffCT]

3. And, I'm sure Chafee in Rhode Island will get a ton of coverage, too

Just like Schwarz...

:sarcasm:

[whistle]

4. In other words, the democrats become the republicans and the

...republicans become national socialists? That would be like voting for two street gangs both intent on stealing everything from the middle and lower classes, beating us up and enslaving us. No thanks

[Warpy]

5. THEIR party is not my problem. MY party IS

I hope they keep hauling ass to the far right. I hope they keep looking for the biggest lunatics they can find, and Walberg is certainly way out there. I hope they keep purging moderates in the quest for party and religious purity. That's what the right DOES.

However, we're not the party of the far right. Conservative party leaders have forgotten that for a long time, and that's why the party has been shut out of all 3 branches of government. It's high time they remembered what people in this party are all about, mended some fences, and offer us a clear alternative to right wing lunacy.

Moving to the right is OK only if you started there. It is not OK for us.

[KG]

7. don't matter to me if the repubs and dems move to the right

just don't expect me to vote for either of them.

btw - what are the problems associated with moving to the left?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Sure it is. As long as they don't expect me to vote for them.

“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.” - Thomas Jefferson