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  I never understood this kind of rhetoric.
  If the GOP is a right wing domestic terrorist organization then how can centrist Dems be moderate Republicans?
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. >
  
  Really!? >
  
  Hmmm. Unproven, but certainly suspicious. I thought she was one of the better ones. >
  
  Thats the point of the article. There are no "better" ones >
  
  Certainly some are better than others, but you are saying none are “good”. >
  
  Nancy Mace is such a fraud. She’ll act completely different depending on what network she’s on, in terms if it’s a network like Fox News verses a network like abc,cbs, nbc, cnn, etc >
  
  Sad that my (former) district couldn’t vote for her replacement. Seems like Nancy has done a solid job of cementing herself in Charleston. Not to mention the absolute gerrymandering SC Repubs have done >
  
  Was excited to vote against her, but the sc house made her district safer when they saw a dem win it in 2018 and I was gerrymandered out. 40% vote for dem governor and yet 2/7 seats go to Dems. Republicans hate democracy. Full stop. >
  
  I always point to Justin Amash as a Republican case study. He made a factual statement about Trump, and was ostracized from the party. Few Republicans want to risk losing party support. >
  
  Same with Cheney and Kinzinger. >
  
  The Republican party is a domestic terrorist organization.  Treat it as such. >
  
  Domestic? Given their anti-climate policies they are international. Guess which two countries didn’t sign the recent global agreement about biodiversity: The Vatican and the US because of the Senate. >
  
  Domestic and foreign! >
  
  The Republican Party is full of fascists and traitors. >
  
  They've moved the Overton window so far to the right that they've normalized fascism. In that regard, it would be impossible for a "moderate" to even exist. And yet, people who still want to persist in maintaining a status quo will insist that there are "good ones" or "reasonable" ones just because some of them aren't shouting about Jewish Space Lasers or openly snuggling up with conspiracy driven white supremacists.
  If you have ten people dining at a table, and one of those people is openly a nazi, you have ten nazis at the table. >
  
  ~~House~~ >
  
  And there was once a time when the focus was on the issues and what they were there to do for the voters they represent rather than the focus being on their personal lives but today all we hear about are republicans personal lives and antics and nothing about their plans or what they’re getting done. 
  They need to remember who pays their salaries. >
  
  They do. The corporate lobbyists who fund their super pacs. >
  
  You have absolutely batt shit crazy, crazy and less crazy. >
  
  And it leans toward batt. >
  
  Yes there are, they just call themselves Democrats and have neo-liberal policies >
  
  Cowards....  klanish is the word.... The don't care about Democracy.... They are still fighting the lost cause.... civil war..... Make no mistake about it. >
  
  Then and now..
  The wealthy are manipulating the poor, in to blaming a group that’s even more poor than they are, to blame for why they are poor, so that the wealthy can get wealthier by exploiting the poor. >
  
  Yep, and the people who need to realize it the most, never will. Tale as old as time. >
  
  The lady in the picture is a misogynist. >
  
  That’s because “centrist dems” are the “moderate republicans”. The GOP is a right wing domestic terrorist organization. >
  
  I never understood this kind of rhetoric.
  If the GOP is a right wing domestic terrorist organization then how can centrist Dems be moderate Republicans? >
  
  GOP = far right wing. Centrist Dems = just right of center. Doesn’t get any clearer than that. >
  
  they're called centrist democrats >
  
  I never understood this kind of rhetoric.
  If the GOP is a right wing domestic terrorist organization then how can centrist Dems be moderate Republicans? >
  
  They're called center democrats