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To: Sam who wrote (366941)	3/21/2018 10:10:07 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541945

"As the right moves further right, the left moves left in reaction." America Fishtails Message 31532646

To: Sam who wrote (366941)	3/22/2018 12:08:04 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 541945

Chris Mathews last night in his final comments also pointed out how the move to the right is fundamentally different than the move to the left, as I have also been saying for a long time. E.g. only 4% of Republicans are liberal, but a much larger number of Democrats are conservative and 37% moderate. The Democratic party is fundamentally different than the Republican party because they are formed by different forces. The Republican parties ideology is the result of adherence to primitive right wing dogma, much like religion, and why the it has so many evangelicals and people who believe the Horatio Alger formula for the poor, not modern social science and humanity. While the Democratic party is formed by several different forces. The liberal foundation is formed by science and logic and much of the rest of the party is a result of its priority on civil rights and humanity e.g. minorities and women, which I would argue is a natural outgrowth of science and logic.