It's a wonderful world...or it is just liberal?
So, while writing my history paper on "Protest & Dissent in America", I came up with this idea on a generalization of American history.
The theory: "overall, Liberals have been mostly winning through out American History, atleast in the long term"
Ovearll, the political specturm has shifted (obviously this is hard to explicitly map out as issues and values change), but anyone who was a moderate in previous eras would possibly be considered an extremist right-wing nut today.
When it comes to major issues, it seems that liberals have continually won or are winning the major battles. Some of the battles they've won include slavery, segregation, seperation of church and state (at most we have state supported charities through Bush), abortion (though this one is the closest to possibly going the other way, liberals are ahead for now), social security/welfare/medicaid (though these might be doomed programs from the way they are built), death penalty.
Disclaimer: This might seem like liberal gloating, but its not. I'm conservative on, to menation a couple of issues, taxes, and am personally against late-term abortions unless rape/mother's life in danger (but I don't want to tell others what to do with their pregnancies as well).
Also, the libertarian section of the conservative wing has, to my limited understanding, been winners in terms of personal freedoms.
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