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Conspiracies are a means to an ends for agendas, so at the voter level it only matters what the agenda is. In last iteration, it’s not clear that there is an a
by hindsightbias 6y ago
Conspiracies are a means to an ends for agendas, so at the voter level it only matters what the agenda is.
In last iteration, it’s not clear that there is an agenda on the right other than staying in power and tweaking the left. The left does appear to have a strategy and if we believe what the right says, they would agree there is.
Health care is a really hard problem with huge vested interests and what we got is not some weird outlier from those points. But one party did something and another just said NO.
- crooked-v 6y agoSee also the current COVID-19 situation, where the Democrat-controlled House passed a second stimulus bill, while the Republican-controlled Senate... did nothing. No yes-or-no votes, no counterproposals, just McConnell leaving everything tabled indefinitely.
- ghthor 6y agoAh yes, the stimulus bill that was just a rider for budget bailouts for poorly run democratic states and cities.
- crooked-v 6y agoIf you're going to pull the 'poorly run' card, consider that the actual data shows the entire American South getting significant 'bailouts' every year. https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-payments-portal/ https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-...