A clean majority of non-Twitter Democrats are "Moderate," "Conservative," or "Very Conservative." Fifty-eight percent so identify, 49% choosing "moderate" and the rest one of the right-wing labels (which for some reason are depicted on the left side of the chart).
Of those who do have a Twitter account, 56% are either "Liberal" or "Very Liberal."
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...non-Twitter Democrats are "Moderate," "Conservative," or "Very Conservative." Fifty-eight percent so identify, 49% choosing "moderate"....
It's the case that Democrats off Twitter still are immersed in a press that is strongly Left and so are inundated with the press' fiction that our nation has moved left, so that what constitutes the middle in their tale actually is Left and not the center-right that we have been historically and still are.
One reason for the right being shown on the left of the graphs might be because today's Conservatives are, by and large, the liberal ones, while today's liberals are the monarchists of our nation. Nah. Pew wouldn't do that.
Eric Hines
Last stat I heard about Twitter was that ONLY 20% of the country had a Twitter account.
So 56% of 20% are "liberal" or "Commies-but-I-won't-say-that."
Twelve percent--which actually sounds about right.
I wonder if it's possible for most of us to stay moderate while also becoming engaged and vocal. Looks like it's the process of getting into the fight that sorts people out into different camps--or maybe they don't start caring enough to expound on their views publicly until this process has gone some way.
I have no clear idea what "Moderate" means to your average Democrat. Or your average Republican, for that matter.
I, of course, am "moderate" because I keep a good balance between the competing requirements of the public good. The resulting vision requires some radical revision of ways our governments do some things, since they are frequently far out of balance, but I'm still moderate.
In that sense I suspect most of us think we are.
Well, likely it means as many things as the number of people they asked. But they one thing that was the same for them all was that they were asked to place themselves left, right, or center. I get what you're saying, but all the same, they don't think of themselves as left -- or right, mostly. That's not where they want to be. They want to be in the middle, wherever that is.
Now if you asked any of us the same question, we'd have a different kind of answer. But I think it's telling that most of these folks are disengaged from the radical Twitter-type politics, and what they want is just to be part of the herd. They don't want anything radical. And what are they being offered this year?
"...and what they want is just to be part of the herd."
And they appear to be willing to stay with a party moving ever leftward to stay part of the herd, but they feel ok about this because the media and culture redefine the norms to be ever leftward.
Then there are the ones that just aren't aware of what's going on and think it's the same party as thirty years ago- there's a video of a lady in Iowa deciding to change her caucus position because she just found out Mayor Pete was gay and married, and as a Christian she can't abide that. ???
Yeah that’s right. The SOTU was intense for being a restatement of once ordinary American values.
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