Yknow there is a chance that we could see a realignment that breaks the social/economic left/right correlation. So it could be interesting times which might let you guys be ahead of a lot more places.
Well, I'm weird in being from northeast Texas so you'd expect redneck ignorance, but I was raised by a flower child turned 80's era goth in a really liberal section of the state, to the point it was a surprise to find out how conservative most of the state actually is. I've just been in Memphis for 13 years due to meeting a wonderful young lady online who happened to be here, but yeah... the political landscape here is pretty damn depressing. My representative at one point was Marsha Blackburn, the woman who took up the torch for an abortion ban after Trent "the incidents of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low" Franks was too busy trying to get the taste of shoe out of his mouth to handle it.
I mean, yeah, he didn't manage to pull an Akin, but that's pretty damn close, and Blackburn happily went along with it, so when I say "us" I just mean "this area I live in" rather than say, "this group of people I am a part of and agree with on any issues" or whatnot.
Haven't libertarians already broken the alingment? Socially liberal (kind of), fiscally conservative?
That's the big-L Libertarians as in the party, which is very ironic. The anarchist writers and such from the late 1800's often used the term libertarian because anarchist publications were outlawed.
Then you started getting people who were mad about the word liberal being used for new deal policies and started using libertarian instead and even flirted with trying to make anarchist-friendly capitalism briefly, which wound up being the closest I've ever come to agreeing with that piece of shit Ayn Rand, making me even angrier at them and their repeating of the whole "people fucking over the use of a word for their own movement" thing since what
we call "libertarian" over here is just the inbred offspring of the social conservatives and fiscal conservatives that figure if they jump up and down screaming "MUH FREEDOM" loud enough nobody will bother to point out what the word originally meant, just like "liberal" policies being the institution of a welfare system sounds absurd to anyone not from the states.
As for a full on break/realignment, it didn't work out well for Teddy did it?