(Gallup) More Americans See Democratic Party as "Too Liberal"

Gallup ^ | 6/30/09 | Jeffrey M. Jones

[Theodore R.]

Well, well, as Geraldine Ferraro once said, “I don’t believe polls,” and I don’t think the American people, the majority now socialist, really think that of their dear ol’ Democrat Party. Otherwise, they would not keep voting for it ad nauseum.

[Theodore R.]

They don’t mind being slaves if the party in power “cares” about them. Of course, the American people reject the nice things his slaves said about Jefferson Davis.

[LS]

I don't find it so remarkable. Read the book "Generations" by Strauss and Howe. The more I see what's going on now, the more it fits their model perfectly. According to them, there is a "constellation" sort of like a baseball diamond that affects people and shapes their world view, including parents and grandparents' generations. The youth see them and a certain natural rebellion sets in; they want to correct what they see as "where the older guys went wrong." In doing so, they almost never absorb what the older guys did right, and so you get a pendulum whereby the youts tend to go the opposite direction.

It's certainly not a perfect theory, but I think they nail most of American history.

[LS]

I agree, and I keep cautioning people on this idiotic Rasmussen "strongly agree/strongly disagree" poll that everyone posts. The REAL polls have O at 55% up to 60%.

Americans have known for years that Dems are leftists, but vote for them anyway.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I haven’t read the book, but empirically you can see that what they propose seems to be true. Generations are certainly colored by the momentous events that occurred in that generation - oppression by England, slavery, Civil War, WWI, Depression , WWII, women entering the workforce, the pill, Vietnam, low-cost consumer goods, rise of mass media, 24 hour cable TV, Internet, texting, mobile video.

I hope there’s a force that’s going to tug the pendulum back toward the center, but I sure don’t see it now, especially because the radical leftists have completely taken over the educational establishment K-12, Academy, and now targeting universal pre-school.

[okie01]

People here have NO IDEA how much ‘free’ health care is going to cost!

Can you confirm whether it is true that the British NHS won't authorize dialysis for anybody over 55? As somebody who is a dialysis patient and is over 55, this is a matter of some importance to me...

"Free" health care is not only going to cost more money than "expensive" health care, it is going to cost more lives, as well.

[originalbuckeye]

I cannot. My husband's relatives who had diabetes passed away a long time ago. An uncle from the diabetes in his 40’s and an aunt who had diabetes and breast cancer. I have no way of knowing about diabetes care in the NHS now. Sorry. I do remember hearing Pelosi (I think it was on the Stephanopoulis Sunday show a few months ago) say that Americans over 55 are using entirely too much of our health care resources. That quote is nowhere to be found on the Internet at this point. The Dem Internet wizards are very quick to remove any damaging evidence.

[okie01]

I do remember hearing Pelosi (I think it was on the Stephanopoulis Sunday show a few months ago) say that Americans over 55 are using entirely too much of our health care resources.

Thanks for your response. The "age 55" specification is key. Because it is my understanding that the NHS does not approve dialysis for patients over 55. And it is also my understanding that dialysis patients might account for 2/3 of all Medicare expenditures.

All of which is further complicated by an act of Congress from the seventies which authorized dialysis treatment for any and all who needed it -- irrespective of their ability to pay.

I suspect that people like me are squarely in Miss Nancy's sights...