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Fascinating article on the differences between liberals and conservatives
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<blockquote data-quote="LarryBird" data-source="post: 4099406" data-attributes="member: 76548"><p>I don't know that there's very many people who feel like a presidential or congressional candidate truly represents them personally, and I don't think it's particularly reasonable to assume they should. The best you could really hope for, in my opinion, is that you agree with most of their platform, and you trust that they have some of your major interests in mind. Other than that, I don't know what you could really be expecting from a candidate who is campaigning to represent millions of different of people and their competing interests.</p><p></p><p>I really don't agree with your assessment that ALL candidates are getting more and more extreme. I think that it's actually the opposite for Democrats, and their candidates have moved toward the middle, in the hopes of gaining the centerists, while trying to appear liberal enough to appease the far left.</p><p></p><p>I do see that conservatives have become more extreme, but that's what their base has responded to, and that's what they need to do to win. Moderate republicans and those more towards the center are the ones who've lost the republican candidates they used to relate to, and have come to feel like they're voters without representation, at least that's what I'm seeing. They are too fiscally conservative to happily vote democrat, but not conservative enough on social issues that these new republican party candidates appeal to them either - they're the voters without a home team.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LarryBird, post: 4099406, member: 76548"] I don't know that there's very many people who feel like a presidential or congressional candidate truly represents them personally, and I don't think it's particularly reasonable to assume they should. The best you could really hope for, in my opinion, is that you agree with most of their platform, and you trust that they have some of your major interests in mind. Other than that, I don't know what you could really be expecting from a candidate who is campaigning to represent millions of different of people and their competing interests. I really don't agree with your assessment that ALL candidates are getting more and more extreme. I think that it's actually the opposite for Democrats, and their candidates have moved toward the middle, in the hopes of gaining the centerists, while trying to appear liberal enough to appease the far left. I do see that conservatives have become more extreme, but that's what their base has responded to, and that's what they need to do to win. Moderate republicans and those more towards the center are the ones who've lost the republican candidates they used to relate to, and have come to feel like they're voters without representation, at least that's what I'm seeing. They are too fiscally conservative to happily vote democrat, but not conservative enough on social issues that these new republican party candidates appeal to them either - they're the voters without a home team. [/QUOTE]
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