The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(01-28-2020, 11:54 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-28-2020, 01:38 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Yes, the American right is indeed "pretty much content with sticking to doing things and succeeding it's own way these days." It loves the neo-liberal, trickle-down economics status quo in which they get big tax breaks and are allowed to screw over their customers and workers, and have their prejudices against immigrants and the poor stroked and their fanatical religious "values" lauded. It's all just fine for them. But the rising younger and more diverse people on the left are not satisfied with an economic system that holds them down for no reason. They don't need to be influenced to know they are being screwed, or to know that climate change and gun violence are real issues that need to be dealt with. They are not brainwashed by the false ideologies of the Christian Right, militarism and neo-liberalism. The Left can see the 40-year trend of America downward toward banana republic status on every measurement you can find. They know that adopting an authoritarian system of government led by an unfit, ego-maniacal demagogue is not what America needs.

Dude, right now the liberal side is the side clinging to neo liberal policies and placing road blocks in the way of pro American policies under the guise of racism and so forth.

There are several interpretations of "neo-liberal," but the dominant one is that it is your philosophy of "trickle-down economics" and "none of my tax money for lazy people on welfare" (i.e. the blacks, latinos in urban areas... yadda yadda). Neo-liberalism is Reaganomics and the status quo that you just admitted above that you like.

America is an idea: that the country exists for the benefit of its people, with a government of, by and for the people. You and your Party approve of and vote for an authoritarian dictator who considers himself above the law. You and your Party and your Dictator are ANTI-AMERICAN! Get that. Your president feels entitled to fully and completely obstruct ANY investigation made of him to hold him accountable. He has divided the country between those who respect the congress and the laws, and those who only respect the president.