Can the polarization between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. be reversed?

[Pat Mustard]

I found myself on the other side when we elected Bush Lite twice. He wasn't particularly far to the right - just such a fucking dumb-ass.

Actually Shrub was very much hard right. That's how far the political discourse has swung to the right in rcent years, that people are now able to espouse social and economic policies that the likes of Thatcher and Reagan were afraid of implementing (because it was political suicide back then) and the likes of Heath and Nixon (remember outside of the racism and criminality Nixon was to the left of today's mainstream) wouldn't even dream of.

Jeremy Corbyn is in political theory terms a middle of the road Social-Democrat espousing economic and social policies which have been shown by history to be the best way to run a country. Yet he's portrayed in the media as further left than Trotsky. That's what allows the likes of Shrub and Dumbfuck and the rest of the conservatives to swing ever closer to the far right every year without outcry