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True Blue: Who Knew?
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06/14/07 09:35 AM ET
It doesn’t really matter that Democrats won back control of Congress; most Americans still prefer Republican ideals. Or, as Brit Hume pronounced on election night 2006, “from what we could see from all the polling and everything else, it remains a conservative country.” Oh, yeah?
That’s the conventional wisdom we hear from the mainstream media. And now we know it’s absolute bunk. A new study by Media Matters for America and the Campaign for America’s Future shows that on most issues, across the board, Americans are true-blue liberals ... and much more liberal than most members of Congress.
For example: Fifty-eight percent of Americans want more government action, not less. On stem cells, 61 percent favor more federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
And the list goes on: Sixty-seven percent say immigration is a good thing for this country today. Seventy-six percent say providing national healthcare is more important than maintaining the Bush tax cuts. And a sizeable majority approve of gays serving openly in the military.
So, let Democrats in Congress take note: They don’t have to be so timid. They don’t have to worry about being too liberal, not anymore. They can be bold, take a liberal position on almost every issue — and the American people will be behind them.
Americans may have been a conservative people once, but the times, they are a-changin’. Today, most Americans are proud liberals. You just never hear about it in the media.
That’s the conventional wisdom we hear from the mainstream media. And now we know it’s absolute bunk. A new study by Media Matters for America and the Campaign for America’s Future shows that on most issues, across the board, Americans are true-blue liberals ... and much more liberal than most members of Congress.
For example: Fifty-eight percent of Americans want more government action, not less. On stem cells, 61 percent favor more federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
And the list goes on: Sixty-seven percent say immigration is a good thing for this country today. Seventy-six percent say providing national healthcare is more important than maintaining the Bush tax cuts. And a sizeable majority approve of gays serving openly in the military.
So, let Democrats in Congress take note: They don’t have to be so timid. They don’t have to worry about being too liberal, not anymore. They can be bold, take a liberal position on almost every issue — and the American people will be behind them.
Americans may have been a conservative people once, but the times, they are a-changin’. Today, most Americans are proud liberals. You just never hear about it in the media.
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