Ideological Extremes are Growing in the US, new survey finds

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Republicans and Democrats are pulling further apart, new Gallup research suggests, as the share of Americans who identify as moderate has declined over time.

Posted by boaz at 07:33 PM | 14 COMMENTS | permalink

Republicans and Democrats are pulling further apart, new Gallup research suggests, as the share of Americans who identify as moderate has declined over time.

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-- Semafor (@semafor.com) January 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM

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The country is growing more conservative.

And It's about time.

#1 | Posted by boaz at 2025-01-18 01:05 PM

The country is growing more conservative.

1 | Posted by boaz

Not if it's MAGA.

What you've got there has been defined for you. Accept it or not but don't dare call it conservative.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-18 02:51 PM

Not if it's MAGA.

What you've got there has been defined for you. Accept it or not but don't dare call it conservative.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-18 02:51 PM | Reply

Reagan wouldn't be welcomed into today's Trump's MAGA even though he was the first MAGA President. Today's MAGA is not old school Conservative. It's extreme right wing. Just sayin

#3 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-18 03:29 PM

#1 so you think the country should be gullible, stupid and fat?

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-18 05:28 PM

#1 so you think the country should be gullible, stupid and fat?
#4 | Posted by jpw

Just the way Trump likes it. Roll it in flour and go for the wet spot.

#5 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-18 06:07 PM

#5 | Posted by censored

I'd totally let Trump have his way with my wife.

-lfthndmoron

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-18 08:27 PM

"Today's MAGA is not old school Conservative. It's extreme right wing. Just sayin"

You're sayin, but I don't think "extreme right wing" is easily definable. The immigration policies within many of the EU countries is more "extreme" than what I perceive to be occurring in the US.

And when it comes to economic policy, I half-joke that the US is the last Marxist country. A lot of people on the left talk about higher income earners in Europe pay more. They do, but it's low-income earners who pay significantly more. I don't often see our lefty friends advocating for a 30% tax on lower income earners in the US, but that's what it is for someone living in Sweden. What's unique to the left in the US is the class-warfare mentality. The belief that high income earners have somehow wound up with money that should have gone to lower income earners. That's a belief that is built solely on emotion.

#7 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-01-19 03:49 AM

No surprise ol' Bozo has no idea what a "conservative" is.

#8 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-01-19 08:59 AM

The words "liberal" and "conservative" have both been loaded terms in the U.S. for a long time, incongruent with their literal meanings.

If you're for regulations or conservation, you get labeled a "liberal".

If you're for laissez-faire, you get labeled a "conservative".

None of this partisanship really makes any sense. People of all ideologies seem to love calling out the other side's hypocrisy while continuing to practice their own.

#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-19 09:09 AM

where the hell am I? This conversation is the most rational I've seen in years on here.

#10 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-01-19 09:54 AM

#1
Conservative? There is a teeny tiny chance Edmund Burke might permit someone with your expressed attitudes the privilege of emptying his bedpan. But, seriously, that's about as close to conservatism as MAGAts can hope to get.

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-20 06:46 AM

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
* Edmund Burke
Conservative

#12 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-20 07:20 AM

Bo-ass the fake "black" "vet" is a ------- retarded idiot.

#13 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-20 11:41 PM

---- off you Nazi bitch.

#14 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-20 11:42 PM

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