I've noticed that phenomena myself, although I didn't really notice it until the Reagan-Thatcher era. Before that, for the most part, I was politically uninterested. We'd just recently come out of the political turmoil of the 1960's, and that whole decade left a bad political taste in my mouth.
However, at the time of the 1980 elections, I felt a compulsion to work as hard as possible against the Carter regime in the US, having witnessed it's disastrous effects on America. I felt that if Carter got another term, then the US was finished - much the same way as the Americans who feel that another Biden term will finish us in this era. I don't see much difference between those two regimes.
Paying attention thereafter, I noticed the same pattern. If the political compass flipped in one of those countries, the other would soon follow.
In America, we also have an analogue to Thather's "wet-dry" characterization. Here, too, it is among the nominal "conservatives" with the "wet" wing being referred to here as "RINOs" or "Neocons" (same thing) as exemplified by the Bush dynasty, and the likes of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. The other polarity, the "Dry", is exemplified by Trump and cohorts, who I would argue are much closer to what I considered "conservative" when I was growing up than the "wet", Left-leaning RINO wing.
Here, the Republican party is also in a bit of turmoil over the polarization that engenders. The Neocon "RINOs" performed a hostile takeover of the Republican party in the 1990's and held sway through the Bush regime, but during the Obama years, the RINOs or Neocons lost their grip on the party and left a power vacuum to be filled by the conservative wing. That happened in the Tea Party" era.
Now the two factions are battling for supremacy, for control of the party, and the "wet" faction seems to be losing ground. They did nothing of merit during their entire tenure in the driver's seat, and the backlash from that ineffectiveness is swinging the rank and file membership back towards the other end of the spectrum, lending more support from them to the "dry" wing of the party.
Only time will tell who wins, but then there will be the next "flip" to look forward to...
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However, at the time of the 1980 elections, I felt a compulsion to work as hard as possible against the Carter regime in the US, having witnessed it's disastrous effects on America. I felt that if Carter got another term, then the US was finished - much the same way as the Americans who feel that another Biden term will finish us in this era. I don't see much difference between those two regimes.
Paying attention thereafter, I noticed the same pattern. If the political compass flipped in one of those countries, the other would soon follow.
In America, we also have an analogue to Thather's "wet-dry" characterization. Here, too, it is among the nominal "conservatives" with the "wet" wing being referred to here as "RINOs" or "Neocons" (same thing) as exemplified by the Bush dynasty, and the likes of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. The other polarity, the "Dry", is exemplified by Trump and cohorts, who I would argue are much closer to what I considered "conservative" when I was growing up than the "wet", Left-leaning RINO wing.
Here, the Republican party is also in a bit of turmoil over the polarization that engenders. The Neocon "RINOs" performed a hostile takeover of the Republican party in the 1990's and held sway through the Bush regime, but during the Obama years, the RINOs or Neocons lost their grip on the party and left a power vacuum to be filled by the conservative wing. That happened in the Tea Party" era.
Now the two factions are battling for supremacy, for control of the party, and the "wet" faction seems to be losing ground. They did nothing of merit during their entire tenure in the driver's seat, and the backlash from that ineffectiveness is swinging the rank and file membership back towards the other end of the spectrum, lending more support from them to the "dry" wing of the party.
Only time will tell who wins, but then there will be the next "flip" to look forward to...
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