11-21-2016, 03:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-21-2016, 03:46 PM by Eric the Green.)
(11-21-2016, 01:45 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(11-21-2016, 01:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Rmoney, Bush and Kasich have the wrong policies, and Rmoney was also, like Trump, all about money and a flip-flopper on policy. They could never have been nominated by Democrats. Republicans today, including those three, are so far to the right nowadays that Democrats cannot work well with them much less nominate them. Kasich was more moderate, perhaps, but is easily swayed by the Republican majority in congress to tow the reactionary line.
Bush and Kasich were and are open borders advocates; that disqualifies them as far as the Republican electorate is concerned. Immigration was the most important issue of this election and possibly of the remainder of the crisis period, at least until the crisis war; on this issue, Republicans are for less immigration and Democrats are for more immigration, as far as I can tell.
That's true (although Obama was the "deporter in chief" and Reagan supported "amnesty," so I dunno about that). And except for the idea that immigration is the most important issue. I guess it depends on what you mean by most important. As an issue that can appeal to fear and prejudice, well yes, it's the most important; the most emotionally powerful. As an issue that has any relation to fact or reality, no, it's not at all important. But Kasich and Bush having a modicum of sanity on that one issue, does not in the least make them acceptable to Democrats. The nub of the issue for both sides is Reaganomics, and ONLY Reaganomics. For which you have expressed your support.