Please give me some examples of good policies passed by the DNC. All I can think of are the right-of-center policies that have been forced upon us all, like Obamacare. There may be a few good ones, but they are few and far between, in my opinion. Why hasn’t one democrat highlighted how far back the W Bush administration retarted stem cell therapies, which, once Obama’s executive order reversed W’s policies, have helped millions of Americans with their health? It’s like, even when they actually do something right, they pivot to unwinnable talking points.
Where did I describe a world where Republicans cared about guardrails? I’m confused by this paragraph. They don’t like them and will tear them down if they can. In instances where they have been successful in tearing them down, it is because Democrats have stood by and let them, in some cases actually helped them. Democrats, after the W Bush administration, should have made a point out of creating guardrails that are hard to destroy. Imagine if Obama’s “we tortured some folks” speech had ended in warrants for the arrests of the officials who wrote the memos and those who followed them? Those people, at the very least, would not be available to join the Trump administration. Imagine if Obama’s solution to indefinite detention was ending the GWoT instead of using signature drone strikes to kill instead of capture targets? There is no path for Trump to operate his “narco terror” illegal boat strikes. However you believe about Republicans, they could not have done it without the Democrats.
Republican policies poll very low, but since most voters vote by color, those unpopular policies get passed. Progressive policies poll very highly, even among Republicans, but are stifled by the DNC. Instead of trying to win over the unwinnable, Dems should target the eligible voter who stays home, instead of trying to suppress those votes because they might go third party, as AOC did.
Popular or not, gay marriage is next to be overturned, just like abortion, and the republicans who have gay friends and family will support the reversal. A democrat who is a sharp contrast to the republican agenda will be able to frame these issues the way pollsters do. Let’s talk about DACA and how immigration is the only reason why the country grows. Let’s stop addressing bad faith arguments like the one you mentioned about aborting a 9-month-old fetus as a form of birth control, which doesn’t happen. Even your general examples of the things Democrats do that you like are highly flawed. Biden’s enviornemtal polices were GOP circa 2000, where they pretend to have to balance the needs of an energy company with the need of all humans to live in a climate that isn’t actively trying to kill human life. A vast majority of climate scientists agree we are past the point of compromising on this shit, and the blue team is pretending like it isn’t urgent.
Had Obama governed as he campaigned, ICE would not have existed for Trump to use for his “the pain is the point” style of immigration policy. Had Biden governed as he campaigned, Trump would have been prosecuted immediately upon Biden taking office, and the MAGA movement would have shrunk. The continued support from people who know better but refuse to vote as if they have more than two choices means we are going to be stuck in the ratchet effect, which is the best analogy I can think of for US policy since at least JFK.
As for your “evil” world leaders comment, that smacks of American propaganda. Show me an evil world leader, and I will show you someone who has stood up to an American business agenda that would have made their country worse off, or a leader from a country that we committed gross crimes against humanity.
Please give me some examples of good policies passed by the DNC. All I can think of are the right-of-center policies that have been forced upon us all, like Obamacare. There may be a few good ones, but they are few and far between, in my opinion. Why hasn’t one democrat highlighted how far back the W Bush administration retarted stem cell therapies, which, once Obama’s executive order reversed W’s policies, have helped millions of Americans with their health? It’s like, even when they actually do something right, they pivot to unwinnable talking points.
Where did I describe a world where Republicans cared about guardrails? I’m confused by this paragraph. They don’t like them and will tear them down if they can. In instances where they have been successful in tearing them down, it is because Democrats have stood by and let them, in some cases actually helped them. Democrats, after the W Bush administration, should have made a point out of creating guardrails that are hard to destroy. Imagine if Obama’s “we tortured some folks” speech had ended in warrants for the arrests of the officials who wrote the memos and those who followed them? Those people, at the very least, would not be available to join the Trump administration. Imagine if Obama’s solution to indefinite detention was ending the GWoT instead of using signature drone strikes to kill instead of capture targets? There is no path for Trump to operate his “narco terror” illegal boat strikes. However you believe about Republicans, they could not have done it without the Democrats.
Republican policies poll very low, but since most voters vote by color, those unpopular policies get passed. Progressive policies poll very highly, even among Republicans, but are stifled by the DNC. Instead of trying to win over the unwinnable, Dems should target the eligible voter who stays home, instead of trying to suppress those votes because they might go third party, as AOC did. Popular or not, gay marriage is next to be overturned, just like abortion, and the republicans who have gay friends and family will support the reversal. A democrat who is a sharp contrast to the republican agenda will be able to frame these issues the way pollsters do. Let’s talk about DACA and how immigration is the only reason why the country grows. Let’s stop addressing bad faith arguments like the one you mentioned about aborting a 9-month-old fetus as a form of birth control, which doesn’t happen. Even your general examples of the things Democrats do that you like are highly flawed. Biden’s enviornemtal polices were GOP circa 2000, where they pretend to have to balance the needs of an energy company with the need of all humans to live in a climate that isn’t actively trying to kill human life. A vast majority of climate scientists agree we are past the point of compromising on this shit, and the blue team is pretending like it isn’t urgent.
Had Obama governed as he campaigned, ICE would not have existed for Trump to use for his “the pain is the point” style of immigration policy. Had Biden governed as he campaigned, Trump would have been prosecuted immediately upon Biden taking office, and the MAGA movement would have shrunk. The continued support from people who know better but refuse to vote as if they have more than two choices means we are going to be stuck in the ratchet effect, which is the best analogy I can think of for US policy since at least JFK.
As for your “evil” world leaders comment, that smacks of American propaganda. Show me an evil world leader, and I will show you someone who has stood up to an American business agenda that would have made their country worse off, or a leader from a country that we committed gross crimes against humanity.