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Your figures are hilariously off, there. If you look at Republican social policies, they're even more off.

by Bud 6y ago

arcticbull 6y ago
The Republican platform is remarkably narrow and well defined. They are the party of 'free speech,' God, guns and eliminating abortions. The rest is ancillary to their voters. When you cast your opponents as God-hating, Christmas-fighting, Gun-stealing, baby-killing potheads, people don't really care about your economic policies, they're just voting to stop the anti-Christ. The Democratic tent on the other hand is stretched about as broad as it possibly can be, and they don't really commit to anything. If they cast themselves as too progressive they risk alienating their right flank and the 'centrist undecideds' (I mean my lord who can't make up their mind about this). If they cast themselves as too conservative, they risk alienating the Bernie bros (who IMO swung the election for Trump last time). So, they stand as a big blob. They espouse a kind of wink-wink-nudge-nudge progressivism: no clear support socialized medicine, a refusal to answer questions about court packing, and immigration doesn't even come up. Maybe more DACA? Where we just throw the problem under a rug again, instead of actually addressing it. I personally wish the Democrats were half as progressive as Republicans are trying to make them out to be, but they're not. Not even close. Half of what the Republicans accuse them of I'm like damn, that's solid center to center-left policy, I wish the Dems were on board with that!
- aweiland 6y ago
  As of this year Republicans officially have no enumerated platform.
  - arcticbull 6y ago
    Oh you haven't been watching nearly enough FOX if you think that :) Take that from someone who now has a Tucker Carlson shaped brain aneurism.
    - dvtrn 6y ago
      I believe what parent comment means is that the RNC has no national platform that they have adopted, advertised and articulated for their National Convention delegates to deliberate and vote on leading up to the election. Which is a correct and true statement, the RNC hasn’t published a party platform as they have in years prior. https://www.vox.com/2020/8/24/21399396/republican-convention-platform-2020-2016 https://www.vox.com/2020/8/24/21399396/republican-convention...
      - arcticbull 6y ago
        Ahh, I misunderstood, thanks for the clarification!

Your figures are hilariously off, there. If you look at Republican social policies, they're even more off.

by Bud 6y ago

Your figures are hilariously off, there. If you look at Republican social policies, they're even more off.

The Republican platform is remarkably narrow and well defined. They are the party of 'free speech,' God, guns and eliminating abortions. The rest is ancillary to their voters. When you cast your opponents as God-hating, Christmas-fighting, Gun-stealing, baby-killing potheads, people don't really care about your economic policies, they're just voting to stop the anti-Christ. The Democratic tent on the other hand is stretched about as broad as it possibly can be, and they don't really commit to anything. If they cast themselves as too progressive they risk alienating their right flank and the 'centrist undecideds' (I mean my lord who can't make up their mind about this). If they cast themselves as too conservative, they risk alienating the Bernie bros (who IMO swung the election for Trump last time). So, they stand as a big blob. They espouse a kind of wink-wink-nudge-nudge progressivism: no clear support socialized medicine, a refusal to answer questions about court packing, and immigration doesn't even come up. Maybe more DACA? Where we just throw the problem under a rug again, instead of actually addressing it. I personally wish the Democrats were half as progressive as Republicans are trying to make them out to be, but they're not. Not even close. Half of what the Republicans accuse them of I'm like damn, that's solid center to center-left policy, I wish the Dems were on board with that!

aweiland 6y ago
As of this year Republicans officially have no enumerated platform.
- arcticbull 6y ago
  Oh you haven't been watching nearly enough FOX if you think that :) Take that from someone who now has a Tucker Carlson shaped brain aneurism.
  - dvtrn 6y ago
    I believe what parent comment means is that the RNC has no national platform that they have adopted, advertised and articulated for their National Convention delegates to deliberate and vote on leading up to the election. Which is a correct and true statement, the RNC hasn’t published a party platform as they have in years prior. https://www.vox.com/2020/8/24/21399396/republican-convention-platform-2020-2016 https://www.vox.com/2020/8/24/21399396/republican-convention...
    - arcticbull 6y ago
      Ahh, I misunderstood, thanks for the clarification!