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I accidentally voted no
So why are you telling everyone you're a fuckup? Is this a new type of humor?I accidentally voted no
So why are you telling everyone you're a fuckup? Is this a new type of humor?
Healthcare, Union Labor, Taxation, deregulation, Military solutions to foreign entanglements,What positions did they move right on?
So why are you telling everyone about it?Clicked the wrong answer on an internet poll.
What a fuck up I am.
So why are you telling everyone about it?
Let it go. We all make mistakes.
Dude, I am on my third night of insomnia. I apologize.Sarcasm.
I was mostly telling my friend, the threadstarter @ripskater
I'll switch it to allow changing your vote.I accidentally voted no
That always puzzled me. The right shouldn’t want a government that’s even involved in thatAs someone primarily concerned with economics, I'd say no. There are definitely elements of the party trying to push that issue left (Bernie & Co.) and elements that only really care about social issues (the "SJW" crowd), but the people in charge of the party are still centrists, and it'd be tough to point to policy that really defies that.
Sidenote, is gay marriage even a left wing thing? I know that's how it shook out, but realistically shouldn't the right have been in board with the freedom to marry who you want?
Gays could always marry. They could marry the opposite sex. Oregon had it's first homosexual (bi) govorner. Because of what the definition of marriage was man and woman could marry. Gay, bi, trans whatever, it just had to be a man and a woman.As someone primarily concerned with economics, I'd say no. There are definitely elements of the party trying to push that issue left (Bernie & Co.) and elements that only really care about social issues (the "SJW" crowd), but the people in charge of the party are still centrists, and it'd be tough to point to policy that really defies that.
Sidenote, is gay marriage even a left wing thing? I know that's how it shook out, but realistically shouldn't the right have been in board with the freedom to marry who you want?
Healthcare, Union Labor, Taxation, deregulation, Military solutions to foreign entanglements,
Healthcare: wanted UHC, got an old republican plan instead
Union Labor: Unionization continues to shrink, jobs shipped overseas, trade agreements facilitating those job losses and/or giving tyrannical control to corporations. Put another way, what the hell has the democratic party done to help labor unions?
Taxation: extending Bush Tax cuts, Obama's payroll tax reduction holiday boondoggle which further damaged the funding of the program. Also, Obama offered to cut SS further in a grand bargain with republicans
Deregulation: Clinton signed the Graham bill gutting Glass Steagall and opening the door to our economic crash of 2008,
Military bluster: the senatorial support for the illegal Iraq invasion was almost homogeneous but for Russ Feingold.
I'll switch it to allow changing your vote.
See if you can change it now.
Gays could always marry. They could marry the opposite sex. Oregon had it's first homosexual (bi) govorner. Because of what the definition of marriage was man and woman could marry. Gay, bi, trans whatever, it just had to be a man and a woman.
What happened was the definition of marriage got changed. The right and conservatives were against that.
Switched it, thanks Rip!
whew, good thing you were able to switch or else the poll would not be accurate.
I'm guessing Chomskys critique of the left flew right by you.
It is important to bear in mind that the Republicans have long abandoned the pretense of functioning as a normal parliamentary party. Rather, they have become a “radical insurgency” that scarcely seeks to participate in normal parliamentary politics
I mean, has there ever been an organization in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organized human life on Earth? Not that I’m aware of. Is the Republican organization—I hesitate to call it a party—committed to that? Overwhelmingly. There isn’t even any question about it.
I think so. Even the Clintons in the 90's were for strong borders, not Islam apologists and Islamophobia fighters and not pushing the LGBTQ agenda on children that we see today.
And I would say that they are the reason this country is so divided. The Democrat Party has gone so far left on many issues, there is no common ground on some of these.
Even back in the 90's many Democrats could agree that borders should be secure and don't have transgender storytime for children at the library.
Anyway, Yes or No, and explain your answer.