BoatShoes wrote:

QuakerOats wrote: Does the fact that we are even having to have these discussions give pause to any of the left-leaning posters?

Or, have we slipped so far left on the political spectrum that its no big deal if the president is a socialist (or worse)?

Wow.

No, it makes me look on with astonishment as people on the right continue to move further and further away from the mainstream as they lambaste policies as "government takeovers" by socialist/marxists that were recently supported by mainstream conservative politicians 15 years ago.

No I think it more accurately portrays the fact that mainstream America right now is listing hard to port. Now you are seeing more and more people leaning to the right to get the ship centered again.
Which is nothing new.

QuakerOats wrote: Does the fact that we are even having to have these discussions give pause to any of the left-leaning posters?

Or, have we slipped so far left on the political spectrum that its no big deal if the president is a socialist (or worse)?

Wow.

Nope. Socialists aren't evil people.

cbus4life wrote:

QuakerOats wrote: Does the fact that we are even having to have these discussions give pause to any of the left-leaning posters?

Or, have we slipped so far left on the political spectrum that its no big deal if the president is a socialist (or worse)?

Wow.

Nope. Socialists aren't evil people.

It is not about whether they are evil (although many would argue that the results of their policies create disastrous economic effects which could be construed as evil insofar as they enslave people to a great degree and limit them from achieving individual liberty); rather it is about whether socialists should be taking over our government.

I think not.

^^It is also that socialist policies and ideas are at odds with the letter and spirit of our Constitution.