Reply #82: I know when someone asks for proof of something, you either provide it our admit you don't have it [View All]

I do see how progressives, time and time again, argue this point from false cause: assuming that because two things happened, the first one caused the second one.

What you can never show, in your example, exactly HOW those things led to the "Republican revolution." You simply overlook the fact that Democrats lost House seats and the Senate control in 1980 and lost house seats in 1990 and gained them in '96 and '98. You overlook the ideological realignment of the parties in the 70s and 80s brought on by Nixon's southern strategy. You overlook the fact that '94 was the year the religious right made the most inroads into the south after working on it for at least a decade and that the south was were the bulk of the losses in '94 occurred. You overlook the ethical scandals of the Democratic-led Congress of the 70s, 80s, up to '94 and how the GOP exploited them before a hapless Democratic controlled congress that had been in power for decades. You overlook that the unpopular Clinton initiatives were actually old liberal ideas that the left had been trying to get traction on for decades.

You overlook these and a lot of other thing. Or maybe you don't overlook them. You just never knew them and the extreme nuances of electoral politics is simply to complicated for the black and white thinking of a typical "progressive."