Oh just stop
That’s stupid
I would like to just do a simple Google search for "Democrat party shifting to the left by year chart 2024" but no such chart exists. I did, however find this:
Both White and Nonwhite Democrats are Moving Left - Sabato's Crystal Ball
"Source: American National Election Studies Cumulative File
In 1972, supporters of the two parties were separated by an average of one unit on the 1-7 scale. The mean score for Democratic voters was 3.7, just slightly to the left of center, while the mean score for Republican voters was 4.7. By 2020, the distance between supporters of the two parties had increased to an average of 2.6 units. The mean score for Democratic voters was 2.8 while the mean score for Republican voters was 5.5. These were the most extreme average scores for supporters of both parties since the ANES started asking the ideological identification question.
Beyond the long-term trends in ideological identification, the data in Figure 1 indicate that the divide between supporters of the two parties has increased considerably since 2012 and that
most of this increase was due to a sharp leftward shift among Democratic voters. Between 2012 and 2020, the mean score for Democratic voters went from 3.3 to 2.9 while the mean score for Republican voters went from 5.4 to 5.5.
In order to understand the significance of this shift in ideological identification over the last 3 elections, I looked at trends in ideological congruence among Democratic and Republican voters on several policy issues in addition to ideological identification. The findings are displayed in Table 1. Ideological congruence is measured by the percentage of Democratic voters taking the liberal position and the percentage of Republican voters taking the conservative position on each issue."
Now ask yourself this question: Is a leftward shift toward
socialism a good thing, compared to a rightward shift toward nationalism, patriotism, and Americanism? America was never intended to be a socialist country. Socialism is the antithesis of everything this country was founded on, which is individual rights, limited government, self-reliance, and capitalism. The Democrat party seems to have forgotten those things.
