The Senate's overwhelming conservative bias

[Ardent15]

Am I the only one pissed at the disconnect between the liberal and moderate majority in America and the Senate's conservative bias?

Let's look at the Democratic Party:

Mostly centrists, some conservatives like Ben Nelson, Mark Pryor, Max Baucus, and Blanche Lincoln, and only a few real liberals (Feingold, Franken, Sanders, etc.)

The Republican Party;

Almost all knee-jerk hard-right conservative assholes. A few moderates like Snowe and Collins, but mostly dominated by conservatives.

Just do the math. A mostly crazy conservative Republican Party + a center-right Democratic Party=overwhelming conservative bias.

Yet the American people are NOT overwhelmingly conservative. More and more people are subscribing to the progressive point of view. But because of the corporate oligarchy's chokehold on Congress, the Democrats in Congress are center-right and the Republicans are crazy-right.

[rockymountaindem]

1. And with the low turnover in the Senate, we have to keep up our pressure for decades

in order to make a shift. Unfortunately with people on our side throwing up their hands in frustration every 2 years, that's difficult to achieve.

[kayla9170]

2. Yeap!!

That is why "We the People" will never be truly represented with this bunch of clowns!

[BlooInBloo]

3. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8683589&mesg_id=8683612

[timeforpeace]

4. Just our luck. We finally get absolute control and all our Senators turn out to be conservatives.

How fucking unlucky is that?

[AllentownJake]

5. You have to run statewide

The conservative will always have a conservative bias because the country is split 30% Conservative, 30% Independent/Moderate and 40% Democratic.

Some states are more liberal than others.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. the senate Dems are far more conservative than the general public

but the real problem is that the senate GOP is so ultra conservative, C-Street style, that every discussion is automatically moved way past the center, much less leftish.

I heard, again, the lie this mourning, that America is a center reich country. I forget the fool (david brooks?) who repeated it, but he got away with it again, without anyone denying its accuracy. It is not a center right country. More and more people are no longer going to church. More people identify with agnostics and atheists, and hate/fear the invasion of ultraconservative thought into our political system. More people openly ask WTF (and that's not a Wisconsin org) we are doing in Afghanistan. And, more people wonder what the hell is wrong with today's GOPers.

[FormerDittoHead]

7. You're forgetting the Liberal Republicans...

Uhhh. Oh wait. No, you're right.

:-)