Ping
I don't know, maybe we have ourselves to blame for not working harder on the grassroots level to feed the right candidates into the system????
Then again, maybe many people vote for a candidate who seemingly represents their values when they are in lower-level political offices, but then they abandon these same values once they begin to play politics on the national level.
I think it is partially because for many, many years we have depended on the walter cronkites and dan rathers for our information. A combination of laziness (on our parts) and potent propaganda on the MSM's part.
I think you could throw in the fact that the vast majority of us went to government schools and liberal universities. In fact, it is surprising and hopeful that we aren't totally brainwashed.
I dunno. What do you think?
Why so many lefties?
Because the left can choose candidates from both parties. There is something for them in the GOP -- abortion, gun banning, and frivolous spending.
The hard core lefties can get all that and more with the Democrats.
The Republicans do battle within the GOP and the inevitable 'coalition' will always be the so called moderates of the party and the conservatives -- painted as extremists by the moderates get cast aside.
The conservative wing of the GOP needs to take control of the party and take just one side of an issue -- life, guns, taxes, small government, border control, etc. The longer we take both sides of every issue, we will continue to split the party and end up with the center/leftists.
Where do we get voters to make up for those leaving to join the Dems, you ask? From the millions of disaffected voters who cannot stomach voting for candidates -- or a party -- that violates their deeply held values.