"Did you know that according to the right-wing talking heads today 'This is still a center right country'?"
"At least it may educate some of the smarter people out there."
Please. You can't seem to accept the fact that there are many people in this country who do not share in your ideologies and values. Anybody who has different ideologies seem to be disregarded by your type (please, correct me if I am wrong, not trying to assume here, just calling it how I see it) as stupid unenlightened sheep who only hold these views because they are always listening to the "talking heads", or alternatively they are just ignorant uneducated hicks who don't really know any better or because they are indoctrinated in various forms of intolerance, religion being the biggest form.
I don't think, "they voted for him!" is a very valid argument that the American people are anywhere near as far left as Obama is. I think it is pretty clear a lot of the people who voted for Obama have no idea who the hell he is or what he really stands for. This girl right here is living proof of that, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI&feature=related. Okay, so maybe she is just one silly little girl, and most people are not quite that ignorant. But I don't think so. I am sure they are not THAT naive, but I am still not sure they quite get what he stands for (other than the obvious of course, just about every one realizes beyond a shadow of a doubt that he stands for hope and change). The guy spent the last several months saying very little. Anybody who doesn't stop to take a look at his track doesn't really know what this guy is about. I personally know several people who voted for him, but really don't have a clue. I mean, you still have people who say things like, "I know he is pretty far to the left, but I really think he will govern from the somewhere closer to the center. Even if you look at the exit polls, there are a lot of people who consider themselves conservatives who voted for him. Colin Powell endorsed the guy, up until now Powell would have been considered someone on the far right. The bottom line is, whether you want to admit it or not, many people did not vote for Obama because of his policies or his track record. They voted for him based on this great icon of a harbinger of change that he has been marketed as over the last several months. They voted for him because he was not George W. Bush. They voted for him because he was not a Republican.
I am not saying the country is still a center right country, I have no idea where this country is as a whole. But I do know that there are still enough people who do not think like you, all sheepery and talking head indoctrination aside. Their life experience and personal values lead them to be that way, not voices emitting from their TVs or radios belonging to people they don't even know, telling them what to think, these so called right-wing propagandists. You delude yourself into thinking that the only way someone can come to think differently than you is if they are being feed lies and lead astray by some malevolent external force. There is quite a nasty cultural war going on in America, just because many people from one side of it elected someone from the other side as president, doesn't mean the war is over and their core values will be dropped in favor of the other sides. There is still a wide gap in ideologies in this country, and this election does absolutely nothing to prove it is getting any smaller, or that many have finally reached enlightenment and shifted to the left. Try not to delude yourself. If you do you are just as naive as Miss OMG!!1 all my worries have reached their end! from the youtube video I linked to.