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What was the idea of the "left" in the past? In the 50s the left would never have considered gay marriage as an issue they could remotely even talk about in congress.
Womens righta Civil rights Gay rights
So they have moved further left than the left was in the 50s as far as human rights...not further right.
Unless the drawing is only talking about the very very recent. Like it was drawn by a 20yr old maybe?
The culture has moved left, the Democratic Party has moved right in both absolute terms and much more so relative to the culture. Remember when Reagan was a horrible right wing nightmare here to destroy the US economy?
Remember how Clinton's economic policy was to the right of Reagan and the DNC has been running rightwards ever since?
Remember when Biden broke the railway strike?
Maybe before dismissing something as being "by a 20 year old" (especially an image that's been floating around the Internet for most of twenty years), you should take a minute to actually understand what it's saying.
The median elected Democrat today is to the right of the median elected Republican of 1986 on every issue except for the designated culture war issues they use to differentiate themselves to the politically illiterate.
I guess we can't count ACA either. Which issues are the modern democrat to the right of compared to 1980s republican?
Republicans in 1986 were calling for massive deregulation, strong shrinking of the fed givernment,strict ban of abortion, return of school prayer, escalation of war on drugs, massive peacetime military buildup, funding anti communist insurgency around the world.
Which issues were republicans on the left of compared to today's dem?
Just giving away that you don't think non-white people exist
Yes, non-white people had it so much better in the 50s?
Edit: btw I literally said "civil rights"