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hoolstoptheheels

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I think some of these things are just “progress”.


I think recognition of gay rights, like recognition of other minority rights, is progress. I think Obamacare helped provide 10s of millions with access to health care in the richest country on earth. A left leaning country would have gone full single payor if not full on govt run, instead of essentially keeping it market oriented and employment-linked.

I take your point though. Maybe the better way to put it is that the republican party ran away from me. First with neoconservatism, next with Trumpism, which I think isn’t even conservative in a lot of ways.

Lastly, I don’t buy that larger deficits = “left”. It’s not a right or left concept. It = classic conservative, but there’s really no fiscal discipline period, and since Trumpism, the “right” isn’t classically conservative. It is as undisciplined as the left. The last balanced budget we had was…Clinton. And that was just the 90s economy. Neither party has bothered with formal budgeting in decades.
[Post edited by hoolstoptheheels at 12/12/2023 5:13PM]

(In response to this post by SysHoo)

Posted: 12/12/2023 at 4:55PM



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