AFP: America's Left, No Longer Left For Dead

[Hissyspit]

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/America_s_Left_no_longer_left_for_d_06192007.html

America's Left, no longer left for dead
Published: Tuesday June 19, 2007

For years in the United States, liberalism was the political persuasion that dared not speak its name, but now the Left is buzzing with hope and proclaiming the death of "the conservative era."

Republicans, from the 1980s onward, demonized even the term "liberal" as the left took a pounding. More recently, President George W. Bush's political guru Karl Rove was among those talking of a permanent conservative majority. But emboldened by helping Democrats capture Congress last year, public anger over Iraq and Bush's woes, progressives, as they prefer to be called, are in the mood to celebrate.

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Progressives believe Americans are gravitating toward their positions on healthcare, the war and economic and trade issues, debunking what they say is the myth that America is a conservative country.

"Karl Rove's fantasy of an enduring majority on the right has collapsed. (Americans) are moving towards progressives in large numbers," said Robert Borosage, co-director of Campaign for America's Future (CAF), which is backing a three-day conference of 3,000 liberal activists here.

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"The grand conservative project has failed," she said.

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[blogslut]

1. Reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated

:)

[Hissyspit]

2. I've always thought it was absurd.

I remember in 1999, in a discussion in class, a student said that it was clear that the U.S. was becoming more conservative-leaning. I (the instructor) said, "I understand that, but the question is 'Why?'"

I don't think the reasons were very reasonable. Complacency, a sense of entitlement, increasing ignorance of history. The great strides in positive progression in our history were all liberal ideas. (Of course, we always discussed the different types and philosophies of political approaches, the different interpretations of liberalism and that the linear right-left template is really oversimplfied.

[ellenfl]

3. we're becoming more conservative leaning because the msm says so? eom

[blogslut]

4. Is it conservative?

That's what they tell us. Me, I'm not so sure. I never have been. I come from a supposedly conservative part of the country and in my view, most folks are centrists. They just want the streets clean, the roads paved and the chance to make a decent wage.

[Kadie]

5. LOL. You posted just before I did. Here is the Yahoo link...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070619/pl_afp/usvote2008politics_070619134224

[Hissyspit]

6. Thanks. I was wondering where they found it. n/t