Blue Tile Spook
Master
I read an internet forum tonight entitled "Education Forum", constructed to allow the flow of ideas between educators** (Preschool teachers through college professors) around the world. They have sub-forums dedicated to political conspiracies and such, which is why I was interested.
On one sub-forum about the Kennedy clan literally dying out of power one person was lamenting that the Democratic Party has sold out their principles to keep the political power game afloat. A member wrote that D's and R's want only a certain "gap" between their ideologies, and in their opinion the R's have moved farther to the right-hand side of the scale and the D's have followed - or restated: The D's have become too conservative in keeping pace with the R's and have abandoned their true party ideals.
Not being a member, I couldn't reply to that idea. My feeling, for a good while now, is that both parties have slid left, not right - we are less conservative today than in previous decades.
I agree with the poster above that wrote that the R's will fail to learn from the mistakes that the D's have made and are making. Some of the R's that I have seen try to shoe-horn themselves in with the Tea Party events still express the same ol' tired lines and generally fall back on the same non-statement statements that were successful on people in the past that were too busy buckling down their lives to pay attention to what was going on politically around them.
**I found it ironic that the members of that forum have stated numerous times that individual politics have no place on the forum, nor should any member let politics drive their "academic" and "educational" discussions, and yet it not only seeps through the cracks but pours out of some members who write.
On one sub-forum about the Kennedy clan literally dying out of power one person was lamenting that the Democratic Party has sold out their principles to keep the political power game afloat. A member wrote that D's and R's want only a certain "gap" between their ideologies, and in their opinion the R's have moved farther to the right-hand side of the scale and the D's have followed - or restated: The D's have become too conservative in keeping pace with the R's and have abandoned their true party ideals.
Not being a member, I couldn't reply to that idea. My feeling, for a good while now, is that both parties have slid left, not right - we are less conservative today than in previous decades.
I agree with the poster above that wrote that the R's will fail to learn from the mistakes that the D's have made and are making. Some of the R's that I have seen try to shoe-horn themselves in with the Tea Party events still express the same ol' tired lines and generally fall back on the same non-statement statements that were successful on people in the past that were too busy buckling down their lives to pay attention to what was going on politically around them.
**I found it ironic that the members of that forum have stated numerous times that individual politics have no place on the forum, nor should any member let politics drive their "academic" and "educational" discussions, and yet it not only seeps through the cracks but pours out of some members who write.
