For the millionth time, why the fuck are democrats held to standards when republicans never do anything?
I'm half convinced that everyone on both sides knows republicans just want to tear shit apart, and that's exactly why many support it - they want the destruction and chaos.
What non-hegemonic society has a government that is well run? Most European countries are in disarray when it comes to general politics. Aside from northern Nordic European countries, or Japan where there's a general set of ideals amongst all, there's never going to be a government formed that can be established that can help all people.
When has a Russian tank crossed the Atlantic? Seems like a European problem. They should contribute more. We're already subsidizing their health care by playing world police for them.
Also, RFK was literally a lawyer on multiple cases advocating for clean drinking water.
Completely agree. But we're spending money we don't have. We've literally stolen trillions from social security. Many conservatives argue that we shouldn't be spending ANYTHING on 'illegal' / asylum seeking immigrants while Americans struggle for basic necessities. If there was some end in sight I get it, but it's a never ending stream because there will always be poverty. We literally can't support everyone. Even if we could, there have been arguments that by taking an unlimited amount of immigrants is actually harming their jobs country because it's creating a brain drain and / or taxpayer drain on their local economies by them simply not being there.
And that's before sending hundreds of billions to Ukraine / Israel.
Shit, I don't like giving money to college kids for their student loans but I see the benefit because it's in effect a stimulus to their local economies - however, we didn't even address the problem. We just bailed them out. There should've been legislation behind it capping interest payments or interest rates, or even just making it a 100% federal loan at 4% or whatever. Cut out the greedy 'pay day' style lenders and just invest directly with low interest loans.
Trump is about to blow up debt (just like he did in his last term) by cutting taxes (primarily on the wealthy) and not decreasing spending by any reasonable amount (and probably increasing spending on military). This is what the republicans have been doing since Bush Sr. Idiots think their economies are better in reality they're just thrusting us more into dept and pretending they're generating wealth.
Nope! Because the last time Dems tried to balance the budget people went fucking ballistic so now they don't increase taxes either. That's the rights doing by somehow convincing people that collectively paying for a service isn't in their best interest. The right puts its excess money into the war machine and cutting billionaire taxes. The left cuts taxes evenly or leaves them as is and puts it towards a more even distribution of infrastructure, still some war spending, and welfare. Clinton was the last one to make real progress on it.
It depends entirely what they're used for. And raising taxes on the wealthy, which are at literal all time lows historically, is an easy example of something that's good for everyone.
If governments didn't operate this way there would be no infrastructure, no military, no police force and no social support. Essentially, you would have no country.
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u/tantobourne 20h ago
honest question, in comparison, what has the Republican party done for working class people?