comment: >
  
  Really!?
context: The thing about republicans is there will always be a new extreme around the corner. In a few years they'll have another party face lift and all the current ones screaming about RINOs will be the new RINOs. We're basically stuck in the end of Mean Girls.
  It's super weird for guys like Crenshaw. He's had quite the fall. >
  
  You're 100% correct. They're just going to keep pushing their party further and further to the right, like they have been for the past 30 years. 
  And the Democratic Party is going to keep pushing itself further and further to the right as well, just like it has been doing for the past 30 years, to pretend to be "center" and "reasonable" and "moderate" to "show good faith" and "reach across the aisle" and "compromise in the interest of the greater good" etc.
  We need a real left in America. >
  
  That's the Overton Window in action.  The R's need to Whig-out, the Dems need to stay put and be the new Right Wing, and an actual Left Wing needs to spring up, borne of the progressives fleeing the Dems.  
  The Dems are right wing by most country's standards, and are only Left Wing by comparison to the Republicans.  
  But while I'm wishing for things that won't happen, I'd like to be fabulously wealthy and have a mansion. 
  ...who am I kidding?  I'd like to have enough money to retire early and the type of middle-class family home I was promised in the 90's. >
  
  Franz Von Papen was left of Hitler in Weimar Republic Germany, and attempted good faith political discussion with him >
  
  I'm not sure what point you are attempting to make here. >
  
  You can’t reason or conduct good faith political discourse with fascist extremists >
  
  I'm super confused here.  I suggested that the Republicans need to disappear entirely, the Progressives splinter off to become a Left Wing Party and the remains of the Dems take the title as the Right Wing Party.  
  I also stated that this was highly unlikely to actually happen.
  At no point did I suggest or even imply that someone was going to have a conversation with fascists.  So where is that coming from? >
  
  My perception was that the above comment had nothing to do with what you said specifically but was a general statement about the title of the article and the overall conversation- more specifically the comment about Dems moving to the right and being the “reasonable” party who attempts to negotiate. I was attempting to clarify what I understood to be their meaning. They probably just replied to the wrong person. >
  
  Okay, you were attempting to explain someone else's confusing and seemingly unrelated reply to my message.  I appreciate the attempt, but your own post needed clarity as well, as it was just as tangential as the one that responded to me, without that context.  
  No harm, no foul. >
  
  I thought that when you said you weren’t sure what point they were trying to make, that you actually didn’t understand the meaning of their comment, not that you were asking about the context. Your reply to them could have used some clarity as well. 
  As for me, I agree with some of what you said. However I don’t think that Dems are moving right along with Republicans. If anything it seems to me that the platform has moved left, albeit not nearly as far or as extreme as the right wing. Things like defunding the police, universal health care, legalizing marijuana, reducing gender, lgbtq, and racial inequity, free community college and student loan forgiveness, universal pre-k, the bold action that has already been taken on green energy/renewables and the massive climate bill, never even used to be a part of the conversation at the policy level. These are (watered down) progressive policies. 
  I think that this administration has shown that progressive politics are having an impact and that the moderate wing is capable of carrying out that agenda, albeit slower than true progressives would like. 
  I also think that recent elections have shown the majority of the country sits somewhere in the moderate zone where Biden’s administration is at. The far right kooks are a minority, the sensible progressives are larger but their candidates still aren’t capable of winning elections because they don’t turn out to vote, and the rest of the country consists of moderates from both wings + independents. These voters rejected Trumpism en masse in the midterms and elected moderate democrats. As much as I would love to see more progressive politicians elected, it isn’t going to happen unless the youth vote starts to actually turn out. >
  
  There are two group. Loud Radicals, and Quiet Radicals. One is batshit crazy and makes the news every fucking day, the other doesn’t but still votes 100% along with the first group. In my 20ish years as a voter, these past few weeks where they could not agree on a speaker is about the least organized I have ever seen House Republicans be. >
  
  All the moderate republicans are democrats >
  
  Nancy Mace once vandalized her own house and then went to the media crying that it was antifa. The giveaway was how she writes her i's.