Submitted by Final_Act6703 t3_y9dr5s in newhampshire
otiswrath t1_it784a5 wrote
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Please give me one Republican policy from the past 30 years that has benefited the average American.
I may be a fool but I certainly am not young and all I have seen them do over my lifetime is get us into unnecessary wars, blow the only budget surplus in my lifetime, and support a wannabe dictator who tried to overthrow the government.
Do I think Democrats are perfect? Not by a long shot but I would prefer misguided with good intentions over war mongering and tax breaks for the wealthy.
llambo17 t1_it7h705 wrote
>war mongering
Like the current democrats actively supporting and funding a war against Russia leading to a stalemate and nuclear tensions?
otiswrath t1_it7uvro wrote
As per usual the only leg Republicans can stand on is "Whataboutisms".
I think much of this is debatable but regardless my original question remains unanswered.
Can you give one policy initiative from the Republicans that helps the average American?
You could make the argument for the First Step Act as it was introduced by a Republican and signed by a Republican president but it is widely considered a bipartisan act and was only opposed by Republicans so that's a pretty soft argument.
Again, not a huge fan of Democrats but at least they are actually trying to make things better for people.
BowTiedAgorist t1_it7okur wrote
- Wars
Barack Obama literally started funding a genocide in Yemen. Bidens withdraw from Afghanistan was a humanitarian disaster. Clintons state department basically turned Libya into a failed state and Syria into a warzone. We have been funding bothsides of the GWOT for twenty years and continued under Biden. The entire middle east conflict goes back to US foreign policy dicking around for oil.
Energy independence has always been and will always be our best way to reduce warmongering...
- Surplus
Has more to do with Dole\Gingritch and the deal with America that married spending cuts with Clintons tax increases. Also the idea of a budgetary surplus when the nation was four trillion dollars in debt is hilarious. Imagine I had 40k dollars in credit card debt, but say I have a surplus because of the 20 in my pocket.
- Supporting Wanna Be Dictators
I'm not sure if you mean 1/6 or supporting the color revolution we threw in ukraine in 2014 to support neo-nazis in their government now?
- Tax breaks
otiswrath t1_it7uq25 wrote
As per usual the only leg Republicans can stand on is "Whataboutisms".
I think much of this is debatable but regardless my original question remains unanswered.
Can you give one policy initiative from the Republicans that helps the average American?
You could make the argument for the First Step Act as it was introduced by a Republican and signed by a Republican president but it is widely considered a bipartisan act and was only opposed by Republicans so that's a pretty soft argument.
Again, not a huge fan of Democrats but at least they are actually trying to make things better for people.
BowTiedAgorist t1_it84utk wrote
>Again, not a huge fan of Democrats but at least they are actually trying to make things better for people
Yet you give them a pass on literally everything you accuse Republicans of? I'm of the opinion that its all one big uniparty for and by the kleptocracy - they just have different ways of attracting naïve voters. Republicans with nostalgia\Christian morality, Dems with hedonism\post-modern morality.
I'd be happy to give you a list of everything I think Republicans have done in the last 30 years that was beneficial, but being as you proved yourself disingenuous with your original comment - I figured it would be better to show you your own hypocrisy. IE Supporting some of the worst warcrimes in the last 20 years because a Dem did it.
Hey remember that time Joe Biden drone struck an innocent family of 10! For literally no reason...
Here is my short list though:
- Dole\Gingrich Deal with America - an example provided above you promptly ignored
- Bush funding Africa - reduced the spread of aids, increased malaria drugs, and access to water
- Trumps border policy - actively combatted sex trafficker's, took money from cartels coffers, and a whole host of human misery reduced - despite rhetoric about kids in cages
- Trump again - Historic levels of funding to black colleges, lowest black unemployment rate in fucking generations, only president in the last 50 years to not get us involved in a brand new shooting war. (your entire idea that dems are anit-MIC is sooo far off base)
- Energy Independence - Trump focusing on domestic\north american energy production has been something we've needed to do... since Eisenhower. better yet if we actually started working with south America to create energy independence for the entire western hemisphere so we can stop playing around in sandboxes with inbred saudi royals. We really needed to scale up our domestic refinement oil refinement to minimize the exportation of crude.
Progress that was promptly aborted by Pedo Peter in the name of climate change, despite the fact that we reduced emissions further than the kyoto\paris agreements would have required.
- Tax cuts - link already provided (you chose to ignore) that actually benefited the poor\middle class more than the rich - as proven by IRS data in the link provided. Less theft by government is inherently a good thing, I don't care if its from millionaires or people on food stamps.
In a sane world - less taxes would be less bombs dropped on children - but here we are.
pahnzoh t1_it7d5v7 wrote
Where did I say I support Republicans?
Fuck them and Democrats. Democrats are pieces of shit this lesser of two evils game doesn't work.
BowTiedAgorist t1_it7lcqx wrote
best not to engange with binary thinkers.
otiswrath t1_it7uz7s wrote
As per usual the only leg Republicans can stand on is "Whataboutisms".
I think much of this is debatable but regardless my original question remains unanswered.
Can you give one policy initiative from the Republicans that helps the average American?
You could make the argument for the First Step Act as it was introduced by a Republican and signed by a Republican president but it is widely considered a bipartisan act and was only opposed by Republicans so that's a pretty soft argument.
Again, not a huge fan of Democrats but at least they are actually trying to make things better for people.
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