08-02-2023, 05:14 PM
No doubt the down-to-the-wire debt ceiling negotiations and increased political polarization are all Biden's fault.
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Every time I see this kind of both-sides-ism, I have to wonder WTH they're talking about on the left. Gay marriage? Decided by the courts ~10 years ago, and supported by solid majorities. Abortion? Limited - yes, limited - access to abortion settled by the courts 50 years ago, until the current conservative SCOTUS upset that applecart.
Voting rights? Progressively eroded by the right and the aforementioned conservative SCOTUS. Umm- "welfare"? Ditto. Obamacare hasn't taken over healthcare as predicted (but still covers a lot of people that the healthcare companies wouldn't touch before)... and no "death panels" yet. Is infrastructure a liberal boondoggle? Has containing Vlad become a liberal item? Immigration? Down precipitously since the courts allowed Trump's Title 42 to go away, despite the opposition from Repubs.
Financially, it was Trump that blasted the latest hole in revenues, and increased spending during the pandemic was a thoroughly bipartisan thing with Trump and the GOP starting it off.
I mean, what is it? Spending in general? Biden has cut the deficit in half or more since Trump's last year, and done so without tanking the economy (quite the opposite in fact!) despite the longest-predicted recession-that-has-yet-to-appear in recent memory.
Seriously, what? How has the left gone "further left"?
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Clearly, if you look at polarization with both parties ... the Democrats have gone further left and Republicans further right, so the middle is kind of falling apart basically," Francis said.
Every time I see this kind of both-sides-ism, I have to wonder WTH they're talking about on the left. Gay marriage? Decided by the courts ~10 years ago, and supported by solid majorities. Abortion? Limited - yes, limited - access to abortion settled by the courts 50 years ago, until the current conservative SCOTUS upset that applecart.
Voting rights? Progressively eroded by the right and the aforementioned conservative SCOTUS. Umm- "welfare"? Ditto. Obamacare hasn't taken over healthcare as predicted (but still covers a lot of people that the healthcare companies wouldn't touch before)... and no "death panels" yet. Is infrastructure a liberal boondoggle? Has containing Vlad become a liberal item? Immigration? Down precipitously since the courts allowed Trump's Title 42 to go away, despite the opposition from Repubs.
Financially, it was Trump that blasted the latest hole in revenues, and increased spending during the pandemic was a thoroughly bipartisan thing with Trump and the GOP starting it off.
I mean, what is it? Spending in general? Biden has cut the deficit in half or more since Trump's last year, and done so without tanking the economy (quite the opposite in fact!) despite the longest-predicted recession-that-has-yet-to-appear in recent memory.
Seriously, what? How has the left gone "further left"?