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How could you argue we have gone "hard left" exactly? What is an event or piece of legislation that has been passed?
by honkycat 5y ago
How could you argue we have gone "hard left" exactly?
What is an event or piece of legislation that has been passed?
- djrogers 5y agoSome would say that spending $6 trillion in < 2 years on largely progressive programs is a pretty hard left swing. Others say that since the latest $4 trillion hasn’t passed yet we’re not left enough. Ill leave the judgement to you, but it’s pretty obvious that things are not the same today as they were 3 years ago.
- KittenInABox 5y agoI mean why are we counting 2 years when the "left-leaning" party wasn't even in power 1 year ago?
- lucaspm98 5y agoEven those on the right were, at least temporarily, willing to accept unprecedented levels of government spending.
- cycrutchfield 5y agoThe right has not been truly fiscally conservative for decades. Maybe you are the anomalous one, as your party seems to have transitioned to cults of personality lacking any sort of coherent ideology.
- honkycat 5y agoPlease show receipts here. You mean the infrastructure bill? That is only 1 trillion? What do you think is going to happen if we stop maintaining our infrastructure?
- TeeMassive 5y agoThe problem with the infrastructure bill is that the price tag was hidden with programs that needed to be renewed periodically.
- mschuster91 5y agoIt will survive for another decade or so, but without funding for maintenance and repair, at the point where it gets actually too unsafe to use or collapses during regular use it will be either a Democrat president getting under fire from Republicans for "not doing enough about infrastructure" or a Republican president blaming past Democrats for being "unwilling to fund infrastructure" - and the latter would actually be correct this time, given how Manchin acted.
- diputsmonro 5y agoYeah, that might have something to do with a major global pandemic, the response to which we completely bothched in our country. Let's see, who was the party in charge then, hmm...
- lucaspm98 5y agoSocially and culturally it's undeniable, it's now completely unacceptable in my professional and social circles to publicly support one of our two political parties. Politically, outside of the obvious 2020 election, there has been unbridled and unprecedented government spending since at least the beginning of the pandemic. Whether it was justified is up for debate, we likely still haven't realized all of the effects, but it has been at levels typically only those further on the left would propose.
- cycrutchfield 5y agoWhich political party was in charge of the executive branch and presided over the unbridled and unprecedented government spending since the beginning of the pandemic?
- notreallyserio 5y agoWell, one of the parties has kind of gone off the rails with support for literal assaults on our democracy. You bet it's unacceptable.
- CountDrewku 5y agoI agree, it's the party who thinks our entire system is racist because it was built by the euro-centric male slave owning patriarchy. Thinking it needs to be torn down and made into a NWO by way of packing the supreme court, flooding in illegal immigrants to vote, letting riots happen, and pushing CRT and gender theory on elementary students is definitely an attack on democracy. Forgive me if I'm not really that concerned about Qanon shaman taking selfies in the capital building or the FBI creating fake white supremacist groups.
- scollet 5y agoHow much TV do you watch?
- CountDrewku 5y ago