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>> And Republicans secretly want big government, again big and small where it suits their and their donors’ interests The Democrats want to increase spending

>> And Republicans secretly want big government, again big and small where it suits their and their donors’ interests The Democrats want to increase spending (services) and the Republicans want to increase control. Rather than "left" and "right" I once drew a 2D graph and placed a bunch of political parties (ideologies) on it. I don't recall what the axis were unfortunately. All I remember is that anarchy was in the lower left and totalitarian state was the upper right. It turns out the parties don't pull us back and forth left-right, one pulls us UP and the other to (on my graph) the right. Since what they want is not actually opposite, this seems to be pulling us ever more toward the totalitarian state in the far upper right.

colechristensen 4y ago
>The Democrats want to increase spending (services) and the Republicans want to increase control. I don't think this really captures it at all. At this point the median Democratic and Republican seems to want low grade autocracy to enforce their vision of what is right on everybody. (I chose the word median carefully, not everyone believes this way, but it also isn't an extremest view, something like what somebody right in the middle of the party acts like)
anigbrowl 4y ago
Did you draw it, or just fill it out? https://www.politicalcompass.org/ https://www.politicalcompass.org/ The political compass is a bit of a meme, albeit a useful one.
stjohnswarts 4y ago
Democrats and Republicans all want to spend money, just on different things. Republicans do not want to pay for it and indeed lower government revenues to profit the 1%. Dems want to spend it on pork and social programs. This is the undeniable truth of American politics. Also republicans are becoming more fascistic and attempting to put agents in places (state government mostly) to overthrow the next Presidential election via throwing out Electors if they need to and the American public knows this but doesn't care.

colechristensen 4y ago

>The Democrats want to increase spending (services) and the Republicans want to increase control. I don't think this really captures it at all. At this point the median Democratic and Republican seems to want low grade autocracy to enforce their vision of what is right on everybody. (I chose the word median carefully, not everyone believes this way, but it also isn't an extremest view, something like what somebody right in the middle of the party acts like)

anigbrowl 4y ago

Did you draw it, or just fill it out? https://www.politicalcompass.org/ https://www.politicalcompass.org/ The political compass is a bit of a meme, albeit a useful one.

stjohnswarts 4y ago

Democrats and Republicans all want to spend money, just on different things. Republicans do not want to pay for it and indeed lower government revenues to profit the 1%. Dems want to spend it on pork and social programs. This is the undeniable truth of American politics. Also republicans are becoming more fascistic and attempting to put agents in places (state government mostly) to overthrow the next Presidential election via throwing out Electors if they need to and the American public knows this but doesn't care.