How The United States Ended Up With Two Right-Wing Parties

We hear a lot about the Democrats being "the radical left." Most of us know this obviously isn t the case, but what many Americans don t realize is that the Democrats should not be considered left-wing at all. In this episode we re exploring the ratchet effect and the long rightward shift of the Democratic Party. How The United States Ended Up With Two Right Wing Parties – Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS music by Sam Kužel - https://samkuzel.com/ New video every Friday! Citations and Further Reading: Past videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULYWIDcUOY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW-ImCVDsWk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Run78z__8jw Ratchet Effect http://www.stanleydundee.com/michaeljsmith-ratchet-politics.html https://www.stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/stopme/chapter02.html Statistics https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/29/increasing-share-of-americans-favor-a-single-government-program-to-provide-health-care-coverage/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/22/most-americans-support-a-15-federal-minimum-wage/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/14/americans-support-marijuana-legalization/ https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/461106-majority-of-voters-support-free-college-eliminating-student-debt https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/07/28/upshot/infrastructure-breakdown.html https://www.securityreform.org/commentary/2021/4/20/congressional-progressives-must-reject-bidens-regressive-budget https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd6c748xw2pzm8.cloudfront.net%2Fprod%2F1b2435b0-a78c-11eb-aa50-9b69ffa3e0d5-standard.png?dpr=1&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&source=next&width=700 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/us/politics/trump-tax-plan-wealthy-middle-class-poor.html Biden https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/02/minimum-wage-joe-biden-neera-tanden https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/18/biden-governors-minimum-wage-469898 https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/02/joe-biden-amazon-workers-unionizing-labor https://theweek.com/talking-points/1001297/biden-alabama-coal-miners-strike https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/joe-biden-100-days-trump https://www.ft.com/content/fc5b78ce-f730-4e92-b31d-82cedae08f08 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/06/biden-says-corporate-tax-rate-should-be-between-25percent-and-28percent.html https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1015581092/biden-promised-to-end-new-drilling-on-federal-land-but-approvals-are-up Other https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/26/opinion/sunday/republican-platform-far-right.html https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/14/16640082/donna-brazile-warren-bernie-sanders-democratic-primary-rigged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36020717 Follow and Support Second Thought! Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought Patreon: https://patreon.com/secondthought BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapman Watch More Second Thought: Latest Uploads: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27 Spaaaaaace!: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6v What If...: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--Cvi Popular Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxN About Second Thought: Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome! Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com