Conservatives now largest ideological group

[SwordoftheVistula]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/120857/Conservatives-Single-Largest-Ideological-Group.aspx

PRINCETON, NJ -- Thus far in 2009, 40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This represents a slight increase for conservatism in the U.S. since 2008, returning it to a level last seen in 2004. The 21% calling themselves liberal is in line with findings throughout this decade, but is up from the 1990s.

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[Lenny]

This means little to nothing.

Almost everyone on the U.S. political spectrum believes in Capitalist-Liberal-Democracy. The minor differences in belief that allegedly "separate" conservative from progressive from moderate are pretty much irrelevant on a broad-level analysis or when thinking on the scale of decades and centuries.

The stranglehold that Capitalist-Liberal-Democracy has had on the sociopolitical discourse in the USA post-1945 is staggering. It's farr more complete control than CLD has had on the discourse in the USA's satellites in Western-Europe.

How total is the control? Almost all Americans think all sociopolitical-Weltanschauungen other than CLD range from "doomed-to-miserable-failure crackpot-ism" to "unmitigated and literally-inhuman capital-e Evil", and certainly no sane person would embrace them. "They (believers in non-CLD weltanschauungen) must be at least a little bit mentally-ill".