RE: I think I'm starting to recognize the real issue with American politics now
January 14, 2017 at 4:24 pm
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2017 at 4:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 14, 2017 at 3:36 pm)DarkerEnergy Wrote:-yeah....and their philosophy is making money off politics.(January 14, 2017 at 3:12 pm)Khemikal Wrote: A non-issue, a far as I'm concerned. The problem, the only problem, with democrat politics....is that it's not actually an alternative to republican politics. It's Republicanism-lite. The "liberal" democrats, themselves, in the same quadrant of the political spectrum as their "conservative" republican counterparts.
Damn straight.
Democrats don't actually stand for anything other than making money from politics. Republicans also want to profit off of politics, but they also have a philosophy they actually believe in.
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Quote:Policy wise the DNC is just a version of the GOP that isn't radical or retarded.I wouldn't go that far, lol.
Quote:They support most wars initially, support the war on terror, support the war on drugs, support laws against sex work, and until recently they were throwing LGBT's under the bus. Then they allowed the GOP to loot Social Security and Medicare to support tax cuts for the 1%, and they caved on the public option easy as pie. At least for conservatives their party actually stands it's ground, and means what it says; or if they don't, they get thrown out on their ass next election. I think if there's one thing we can learn from conservatives it's how to do politics.They don't stand their ground, or say what they mean -or- get thrown out. The way they "do politics" is indistinguishable from the way politics is done in the general. You say whatever the rubes want to hear, and dance with the one that brung ya.
Quote:It's long past time to clean house.The house -itself- is what's filthy, that it's full of scumbags is to be expected. You could replace every single person there with someone else and the situation won't improve. That's why the odd semi-decent legislator fails to effect any change.
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