The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.
The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.
Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
The political parties have lost their loyalties.
The right is so reactionary it goes nowhere.