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If the last few years should have showed anything it's how little the elected officials typically care about balancing, let alone create excess, budget.
by f_devd 2y ago
If the last few years should have showed anything it's how little the elected officials typically care about balancing, let alone create excess, budget.
- spwa4 2y agoExactly. Even Trump, whose main policy promise was reducing spending, is currently 12% over budget (4% budget increase requested from congress + 8% that he's actually overspent so far)
- Yeul 2y agoWell there was that Tea Party movement. But the reality is that America is addicted to spending more money than comes in.
- h2zizzle 2y agoThe Tea Party was like Gamergate in that it was ostensibly about [overtaxation|ethics in gaming journalism], but was actually driven by [sexism against female games journalists|racism against President Obama], and swiftly co-opted by [the conservative establishment|the conservative establishment] as the right face of the post-OWS idpol wedge. (It would be foolish to think that the divided state of this country was a unilateral push.)
- Izkata 2y agoThat narrative was created by the journalists Gamergate was against, to deflect against their criticisms. It was never actually true.
- potato3732842 2y agoAnd the real Grade A irony is that the same is true for the tea party and he took the post-hoc media spin hook line and sinker. If you take a step back you'll see that while tea-party, occupy wall street, Maga 1, mostly peaceful 2020/BLM and Maga 2 all take aim at different points in the establishment they're all firmly rooted in the discontent that every day people have with the amount the powers that be are lightening their pockets for causes they don't agree with. The grassroots movements will keep coming (and they will probably become more extreme too, and the powers that be will keep trying to co-opt and redirect them) until something changes.
- h2zizzle 2y agoMy initial description was correct. Unfortunately, people like yourself subscribe to the outcome of years of commiseration that commenced with the aim of rationalizing what was clearly bigotry to even contemporary observers (I was one of those). It is correct that the grassroots movement that you mentioned had a core of righteous discontent. As mentioned, the right portions were co-opted quickly and refashioned into an arm of neoconservatism. The left was popularly (though not ideologically) discredited or otherwise neutered by reliance on reluctant liberal "allies". The proof is in the rightward march of American policy in the interim.
- h2zizzle 2y agoAnd THAT narrative was created by Gamergater grifters. IT was even less true than whatever you might find flawed in GP.
- thunderfork 2y ago[dead]
- dboreham 2y agoThat's mostly because what "comes in" has been deliberately reduced. US, apart from the ludicrous health system, doesn't seem to spend much more than other western countries.
- rtkwe 2y agoAnd it died the moment there was a Republican in the White House because the GoP doesn't actually care about budget balance, outside of a few individual members, it's just an electoral strategy against Democrats. They have no problem pushing through massive tax cuts with "budget neutral" tricks to get it through with the assumption that they'll simply be extended any ways (and those are just your tax cuts the business tax cuts are, of course, permanent).