Is the country still moving to the right, or have we finally made a turn to the left ?

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4. I think the momentum

I think the momentum is still very much to the right. Obama has taken a stand on a few social issues such as gay marriage, women's rights in the workplace and other problems that don't really impact or address the aggressive corporatist foreign policies and corporate friendly domestic posture of his administration.

The outcome of this new gun debate will be interesting. Will it bring in greater law and order measures across the states? Will it serve to further polarize an already propaganda sick public? The gun control debate could bring us more to the right with greater police powers and a new surveillance state "normal" to protect us from the bad people. It all depends on who gets to frame the debate. The right-wing has been pretty good at that at least since the eighties. The Left not so much.