Well shoot, if we take fear and demonization away from the GOP what will they have left? Those seem to be the only arrows in their quiver anymore.
JSpencer
· 1 month ago
CO, this is totally connected to the present, just the latest chapter in the same long book, one you don't care to read... perhaps understandably.
Leonidas
· 1 month ago
In the battle over health care, the Republican Right, after months of saying no to every Obama initiative from stimulus to bailouts, has gone on the offensive to slice and dice Americans into warring factions–young-old, men-women, rich-poor, anywhere fear and hatred can be stirred up.
Yet 25% of democrats in the house voted against it. Opposition was bipartisan you know.
Of course the democrats by not addressing items that both parties could agree on first and getting that legislation out of the way has gone on the offensive to slice and dice Americans into warring factions–young-old, men-women, rich-poor, Blue dog - progressive, Prolife democrats-Pro choice democrats, etc., anywhere fear and hatred can be stirred up.
merkin
· 1 month ago
Why is this a surprise. They started the culture war to gain votes using fear to divide the voting population into armed camps. It was inevitable that they would in time become captive to the propaganda, believing it is true.
They did this because they needed people to vote against their own economic best interest, adopting economic policies designed to distribute all of the nation's annual real income gain to the wealthy. Then they decry any attempt at changing this as ”redistribution of income".
jchem
· 1 month ago
You mean to tell us it's all the Repubs fault for this bill not passing yet? Gee, and here I thought they were irrelevant these days given the crazies who run the party. I've said this on several threads, but I'll say it again. Every single Repub in both chambers can vote against this bill. If the Dems can't get the votes out of their own party, then they're really not serious about passing the bill. The Dem problem seems to be that they forgot how to govern.
casualobserver
· 1 month ago
The left has to divert attention to the past everyday since they have proven themselves totally inept at accomplishing anything in the here and now.
TheMagicalSkyFather
· 1 month ago
Let me explain this in the simplest terms possible. Regardless of the party in power doing something for the minority at the top of the pyramid scheme is easy. So easy in fact that it is often done without many people noticing. Doing something for the majority that in no way benefits the minority at the top is near impossible but rarely happens. You can mock the left all you but what is the last thing the right did to actually help the middle class in this country, not the poor just the middle? Personally I have to go back to Eisenhower with building the highway infrastructure but thats because in my opinion Reagan helped the poor and upper class by beginning the melting of the middle class.
PWT
· 1 month ago
Perhaps, the bill would have a better chance of passing if the democrats were able to allay some of the fears of the electorate that the republicans have been showcasing. In my view, that they don't, means that they can't. They've already lost the argument and will likely start referring to opponents of reform as fascists. The only unanswered question is whether it will die in committee or on the senate floor.
DLS
· 1 month ago
The losers are getting desperate as well as frustrated with the Dems' self-created failure this year due to their legislative and political overreaching -- is it any wonder they would blame anyone and everything else they could imagine or invent rather than face reality, and possibly admit defeat, failure, or error?
JSpencer
· 1 month ago
I guess I missed all the great work the GOP did to address the need for healthcare reform when they were in power. Must have happened when I blinked. Oh wait, that was Richard Nixon! Gee, time sure does fly...
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Yet 25% of democrats in the house voted against it. Opposition was bipartisan you know.
Of course the democrats by not addressing items that both parties could agree on first and getting that legislation out of the way has gone on the offensive to slice and dice Americans into warring factions–young-old, men-women, rich-poor, Blue dog - progressive, Prolife democrats-Pro choice democrats, etc., anywhere fear and hatred can be stirred up.
They did this because they needed people to vote against their own economic best interest, adopting economic policies designed to distribute all of the nation's annual real income gain to the wealthy. Then they decry any attempt at changing this as ”redistribution of income".