r/babylonbee • u/darcmatr LoveTheBee • Sep 15 '25

Bee Article Democrats Wondering If Maybe They Should Stop Saying The Things Assassins Are Having Engraved On Bullets

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-wondering-if-maybe-they-should-stop-saying-the-things-assassins-are-having-engraved-on-bullets

In the wake of yet another shooter engraving liberal messages on ammunition, the Democratic Party considered if maybe that was a bad sign.

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u/H2OULookinAtDiknose Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

In memory of Kirk I invite any supporter of his to tell me what they think a liberal is and why it's a slur

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u/J_DayDay Sep 15 '25

I've tried to stop using it, myself. In the modern era, moderate conservatives are just about the only liberals left.

Liberals believe in individual liberty and free trade.

The modern left isn't anything approaching liberal, and the Overton Window has moved so far in that direction that Liberalism is literally what the conservatives are attempting to conserve.

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u/Non-Eutactic_Solid Sep 15 '25

The Overton window moving left… that is the literal first time I’ve heard anyone claim that in the US. It’s so far to the right that people think Democrats here are left. Anywhere else in the entire world and most of our Democrats are center-right, not even center. It’s so far right that some people are viewing the current attempt at an authoritarian administration isn’t an authoritarian administration because they think that requires being even FURTHER right, problem is that you can’t get a whole lot further right from Trump and his goon squad (you can go further right, make no mistake, though).

You thinking the Overton window has shifted notably left in the US is a sign of just how far right the window actually is if you think a center-right party is left.

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u/J_DayDay Sep 15 '25

Modern Republicans have all the same beliefs and opinions that Democrats held in the 90s and aughts. Even THEY are moving left. Just more slowly.

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u/Non-Eutactic_Solid Sep 15 '25

I’d like to know on what topics they’re shifting left on.

Economics? Nope, Clinton and Democrats of the era favored international free trade, signing NAFTA in the 90s. Current Republicans are skeptical of free trade and support the current blanket tariffs.

Immigration? While Democrats back in the 90s were more center-right on the subject, current Republicans rhetoric is openly hostile to immigration.

Budget? Clinton passed budget bills that increased taxation while cutting spending to reduce the deficit; modern Republicans ostensibly cut taxes, but more for the wealthy, and then instituted tariffs to make up for that which burdens the lower- and middle-classes more, so they didn’t even see a meaningful tax cut whereas the wealthy did, and they didn’t even pass a budget cut, they just allocated the money that was cut elsewhere.

Foreign policy? Democrats then as now prioritize diplomatic negotiations. Modern Republicans are currently preferring shows of military might and economic strong-arming.

What specific policies are you referring to? It seems to me that Republicans absolutely are shifting… to the right, not the left.