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You know people are actually Republicans, right? You think what they want is for big companies to loot the government? That sounds like you view Republicans as
by ALittleLight 4y ago
You know people are actually Republicans, right? You think what they want is for big companies to loot the government? That sounds like you view Republicans as the villains on Captain Planet.
The Republican position is probably more like "With less regulation more companies could flourish and compete in the same space and then market forces would drive costs down" and less about wanting to steal from people.
It's crazy to think ~half the country just wants to empower big business to rob them. Not least because big business tends to support Democrats.
- agalunar 4y agoI assumed by "Republicans" they meant Republican politicans and the wealthy entities that support them, rather than party members (the general populace).
- throwntoday 4y agoYou say that as though SF hasn't been run exclusively by democrats for 30+ years. Democrat politicians care as little for their constituents as republican.
- roflyear 4y agoAt least democrats do not want to take away women's and gay rights.
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- dustymcp 4y agoI doubt all republicns want that either, the problem is that 2 party system makes it all the same which is insane.
- roflyear 4y agoNot even the majority want same-sex marriage to be illegal, but only 55% of Republicans support same-sex marriage. That's a low number. 60% of republicans want abortion to be illegal.
- joshspankit 4y agoY’all are funny in there (US). Every time someone argues that “democratic politicians this” or “republican politicians that” the rest of the world looks at each other like “do they think that they actually have two different parties?” Even based on public policy (and ignoring how their private actions), US democrats are closer to “global centre” but still in many cases to the right of centre.
- Pigalowda 4y agoYou don’t speak for the rest of the world. And no, democrats are not to the right of center.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoWhere do you suppose center is?
- rayiner 4y agoOn what issue? Democrats are to the left of the developed world on most social issues. For example, in the EU, neither abortion nor same-sex marriage are recognized as inalienable rights, but rather are afforded as legislative prerogatives: https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2015-09-14/european-court-of-human-rights-decision-on-gay-marriage-in-italy/ https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2015-09-14/eur..., https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-right-to-abortion-and-the-european-convention-on-human-rights/ https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-right-to-abortion-and-the-... On economic issues, the Democrat mainstream is center to center right compared to Europe. But overlook that social democracies in Europe went through a long conservative retrenchment after the 1960s and 1970s. Look at the corporate tax rates in Sweden.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoOn absolute terms. Among the salient issues, what would a center platform entail? The reason I bring this up is because we can then compare your idea of center to examples world wide. I'm specifically challenging you to enumerate your position so that we can escape the, "Well it just is center," circles we would otherwise run in, or the relative terms we seem to be talking about now.
- Schroedingersat 4y ago> It's crazy to think ~half the country just wants to empower big business to rob them. You'r right. It's more like 90% of the representatives. The republicans are just more brazen about it.
- roflyear 4y agoRepublicans lately do not operate in good faith. At least the federally elected ones.
- kjkjadksj 4y agoWhy do people still believe that lie? That deregulation leads to a market environment that wont just be dominated by existing whales.