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I'm mixed on the idea that the pendulum swings one way politically then swings to another way. I'd like to stir a bit of debate by putting forth the idea that it does not actually exist in reality. The conservatives always take yesterday's positions. As time passes conservatives ape past leftists and conservatives of a bit farther in the past are regarded as putrid monsters. That sounds like a steady shift leftward to me. Sure Nixon follows Johnson, Reagan follows Carter and Trump follows Obama, but that looks to me like a temporary pause.

I'm mixed on the idea that the pendulum swings one way politically then swings to another way. I'd like to stir a bit of debate by putting forth the idea that it does not actually exist in reality. The conservatives always take yesterday's positions. As time passes conservatives ape past leftists and conservatives of a bit farther in the past are regarded as putrid monsters. That sounds like a steady shift leftward to me. Sure Nixon follows Johnson, Reagan follows Carter and Trump follows Obama, but that looks to me like a temporary pause.

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There has been a steady shift to the left, but that's because conservatives have no end-game. Conservatives want things to stay the way they are, but this simply won't work for everybody. Liberals want to go full communist, but history has proven that a rapid push towards communism just creates a fascist state. Neither group knows what the fuck they're doing so we have a slow shifting towards leftism.