Charles M. Blow's Article
I think that liberals and progressives need to appeal to the political anger of mainstream, moderate people, both white people and people of color, I don't think that liberal and progressive politicians and commentators should necessarily strive to sound as histrionic as conservatives usually sound.
For example, in his column titled --Suicide Conservatives'" in the New York Times online, dated
In a word, right-wing conservatives sound paranoid.
Ah, but couldn't left-wing liberals and progressives work up their own distinctive left-wing paranoid style -- to match the right-wing paranoid style? Yes, this is a possibility.
But most American voters are not right-wing conservatives or left-wing liberals and progressives. On the contrary, most American voters tend to be moderates, not right-wingers or left-wingers.
Ah, but hasn't there been a rightward drift among American voters in recent decades, so that even seemingly moderates tend to be right-center, rather than left-center? Yes, this has happened over the last half century or so. In other words, in the 1960s and 1970s, many mainstream, moderate white people were willing to go along with the liberal views at that time regarding black civil rights and women's roles in society. But certain liberals from the 1960s and 1970s have become locked into the liberal views of the 1960s and 1970s. But most moderate, mainstream white people have shifted away from those left-center views and shifted toward more right-center views.
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