3volver@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 9 months agoWhy is there no true Progressive party in America right now?message-squaremessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up1180arrow-down124
arrow-up1156arrow-down1message-squareWhy is there no true Progressive party in America right now?3volver@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square112fedilink
minus-squareCryophilia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·9 months agoThe GOP used to stand for all that before Obama
minus-squareCryophilia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agoThey started going off the rails long before, but they didn’t totally abandon those principles until the mid 2000s
minus-squarePostmortal_Pop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agoWhile most of their rhetoric was better aligned with this, the rot has been there since at least Regan. Their stance on abortion, big military, and economic policy all lean very far away from these concepts.
The GOP used to stand for all that before Obama
quite a ways before Obama
They started going off the rails long before, but they didn’t totally abandon those principles until the mid 2000s
While most of their rhetoric was better aligned with this, the rot has been there since at least Regan. Their stance on abortion, big military, and economic policy all lean very far away from these concepts.