The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(08-30-2021, 10:18 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(08-29-2021, 01:55 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

Are you forgetting someone who fits those well?

Trump doesn't fit it very well.

1. Powerful and continuing nationalism goes to Trump and the American Right.
   
2. Disdain for human rights goes to Biden And the Democrats. Black Lives Matter and illegal immigrants matter but that's about it the days.
   
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause goes to Biden, You and the others and the Democrats. Read your own posts, enough said.
   
4. Supremacy of the military goes to Biden and the Democrats. They're the ones who have been busy weeding out the military.
   
5. Rampant sexism goes to Biden and the Democrats. How many sexual harassment charges did it take to force Cuomo to resign. You'd think sending thousands of COVID back to nursing homes resulting in thousands of deaths would be enough. How many blue chester's have bit the dust over the years?
   
6. Controlled mass media goes to Biden and the Democrats. Let's see, Face Book, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC & CBS, HBO, Showtime, PBS, NPR and pretty much all the major newspapers.
   
7. Obsession with national security goes to Biden and the Democrats, Biden and the Dem's have been pretty obsessed about national security, How much has changed since Jan 6th and how much power have the Democrats given themselves since Jan 6th? Oh, Then there's all the obsession and hysteria related to COVID that Biden, you and the others and the Dem's being associated with national security too.
   
8. Religion and Government intertwined goes to Biden and the Democrats. It's not an organized form of religion but it's a global religion of sorts that the far Left and some of you seem to subscribe to and belief in. Global warming, climate change, the global Marxist movement that the so called intellectuals and Woke Culture have been pushing lately
   
9. Corporate power protected goes to Biden and the Democrats. Someone is allowing corporations to have powers that are illegal or powers the US government. Like I said, when the violence begins, the violence isn't going to stop until the Democrats tuck their tales and skip town or fully capitulate, The Democrats have a history of skipping town when the chips are down.
   
10. Labor power suppressed goes to Biden and the Democrats. Look at the result of the COVID restrictions. How many small business owners and their workers have been impacted by them.
    
11. Disdain for intellectuals and the arts. I'd say it does not fit for either side at this point.
    
12. Obsession with crime and punishment goes to Biden and the Democrats. Jan 6th and Covid restrictions and mandates. As far as regular crime and punishment. The Biden Administration and the Democratic party doesn't seem to care about rising crime or stopping criminals these days.
    
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption goes to Biden and the Democrats. We're spending trillions on what? The Democrats want America to spend trillions on who and what?  Do you know that only 12% of Americans view the federal government favorably these days? Like I said, If you are reliant on government services, you're pretty much f-d when America lets go of Washington DC in favor of starting anew.
    
14. Fraudulent Elections goes to Biden and the Democrats. Local courts changing state election  laws is illegal.
    

My response in order (numbering mine for simplicity):

1. We agree on this one at least.
   
2. Whoa!  It was Trump who separated children from their parents and lost the paperwork to reunite them.  He also had no issue with MBS killing a journalist for being, you know, a journalist.  In fact, there are so many examples it's hard to list them.
   
3. Come on!  Trump is all about identifying and attacking his enemies -- something he's done his entire life.  He even goes after loyal friends if they aren't sufficiently loyal in his estimation.
   
4. Trump was the guy who wanted military ideation, and used troops as props.  They were "his generals" and "his troops" after all.
   
5. This is such a stretch you have to be kidding.  Democrats got rid of their predators -- even ones who probably didn't really desereve it.  Trump made a point of being a predator and got cheered-on by his party.
   
6. This is easy.  Fox, OANN, Brietbart and many other RW media never criticized Trump, no matter how thoroughly it was deserved.  The so-called MSM have had at Biden for his failures at Afghan withdrawal. since it started  QED.
   
7. This was Trump's forte: get us inside fortress America, build the miltary up even further and screw every other nation -- even staunch allies.  You do remember the wall, I assume.
   
8. Only the GOP and Evangelicals have truly united politics and religion in this country.  Period.
   
9. Trump killed all anti-trust activities, and tried to defund that part of the Justice Department.  He reduced corprate taxes to almopst nothing, and front loaded the cuts via a tax holiday on foreign earnings to make certain that they happened on his watch.
   
10. How you twisted this one is beyond me.  Biden isn't overly friendly to labor, but Trump was and still is outright antagonistic.
    
11. The entier GOP is built on anti-intellectualism.  You guys own this one 100%
    
12. Trump has alwasy been for harsh pnishment of the lowly and a free pass to the rich and powerful.  He lobbyied to have the Central Park Five executed even after they were found unequivocately innocent.
    
13. This isn't even funny.  The Trump adminstation handed out no-bid contracts like candy.
    
14. Trump is still pissed that he couldn't reverse an obvious loss.  He even took it to Congress in force on 1/6.
    

You don't even get a "nice try" on this one.