Forgive me if I’ve overlooked important nuance in my brief posts, but I still stand by my point. I’m not contending that the GOP is some bastion of principle. I’m contending that it is much closer to one that the Democrats, who are presently in the process of disenfranchising myself and the entire state of Maine from participating in the Presidential Election. LD 816, I linked it above.
That’s local politics, but similar legislation is underway in other states too.
On the national level it seems to me, a pretty typical American who works and raises children with most of my time, that the Democrats are favoring policies that unproven, irrevocable and of much greater potential impact than anything on the Republican side. Again, we have the advantage of a crystal ball of wokeness with the UK and EU, where we can watch these kind of bad ideas play out over time in societies similar to ours.
I also remember when Hugo Chavez and Venezuela were the absolute darlings of the left. They did it. They took power and implemented the right ideas, OUR IDEAS. And things were great for a few years and they all said LOOK, see how smart I am and how good these ideas play out.
I remember well, because I was an avid consumer of liberal media at the time.
We can always decide later that we need more immigrants from wherever for whatever reason. All sane countries manage who they let in and who they grant citizenship to, just as any sane person takes caution when deciding whether to invite someone they don’t know into their house. From what I can tell, the Democrats seem to be advocating for open borders and calling anyone who disagrees a racist. Many, such as the DA of Suffolk county (also linked above), population 800,000, campaigned on making things hard for ICE. One of the best men I know had to wade through screaming protesters just to go to work. He’s an ICE agent who works to bust international child sex rings with Interpol and law enforcement in all kinds of countries. He routinely spends weeks away from his family to hunt down and apprehend the worst people in the world, yet has to put up with self-righteous adult-age children who have nothing better to do than spend their time playing resistance warrior and screaming at people who do more for the community in a day than they’ve done in their lives.
Okay my ICE protester rant is over, thanks for sticking with me.
If you think I’ve misrepresented the Democrats’ position on border security, please say so. Again, I’m just a regular guy, not some political smarty pants. I’ve only listened to them speak and read their website, which didn’t seem to mention border policy except that they don’t want the wall. To give them credit, at least that much of their border policy was clear.
https://democrats.org/about/party-platform/
We can always decide later that massive entitlements should be extended to the population. We’ve done this before, and I think a strong case can be made that the Great Society legislation failed in its goals and has helped to produce outcomes that are severely crippling to a large swath of the people it was designed to help.
There’s a lot of nuance in that discussion too, btw, so please don’t interpret my statement as a suggestion that government assistance isn’t necessary. I believe it is.
We can always decide later that we should all turn in our guns, or some of our guns, or not. Cat’s out of the bag on that one anyway, but again that’s another discussion.
We can always decide later that yes, we should choose our words extremely carefully at all times and start implementing hate speech laws like in certain Canadian provinces, where mis-gendering someone can have very serious consequences. Let me tell you, one of my very best friends came out as trans about a year ago and I still slip up. Even his blue-haired super liberal friend slips up. I just slipped up there, I’m supposed to say “‘It’s’ blue-haired super liberal friend slips up.” Do you know how hard it is to consistently call a person “it”?
The people who drafted bill C-16 in Canada obviously didn’t. I say we just keep the social pressure on people not to be dickheads, treat people politely and wait and see while Canada and the UK slide down the slippery slope of their speech codes and speech police.
These are just a few examples, but I welcome any examples people might have that I’m not considering. What are the policies of the Republicans that are similarly transformative and irrecovable? What ideas are being advance that, if done, cannot be un-done?
@pfury
Sorry you brought up some good points and I hope to address them, but I’m out of time right now.