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Since 2000, voters have opted for 12 years of Republican presidents and 12 years of Democratic presidents. The Senate is currently split 50-50, and the House is on a knife edge. The federal judiciary outside the Supreme Court is almost exactly 50% Democratic and 50% Republican. Presidents are routinely elected by margins of a few percentage points.
We have been a 50-50 nation since at least 2000, and we still are. Conservatives have hung on to their half thanks to Fox News giving them a steady boost of a few percentage points based on fearmongering and white backlash. At the same time, liberals haven't really tried to build a bigger majority, instead experimenting with pushing the progressive envelope as far as they can without falling too far below 50%.
Eventually something will give and one side or the other will win a solid advantage for a decade or two. Or so I assume. But when?
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That's what I thought, motherfucker.
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Do you remember the days of the Simpson-Bowles debt-reduction plan? A decade ago elite opinion was obsessed with the supposed need for immediate action on budget deficits. This consensus among what I used to call Very Serious People was so strong that as Ezra Klein, now a Times Opinion writer, wrote, deficits somehow became an issue to which “the rules of reportorial neutrality don’t apply.” The news media more or less openly rooted not just for deficit reduction in general, but in particular for “entitlement reform,” a.k.a. cuts in future Medicare and Social Security benefits. Such cuts, everyone who mattered seemed to argue, were essential to secure the nation’s future.
They weren’t. But here’s my question: If elite opinion cares so much about the future, why isn’t there any comparable consensus now about the need for climate action and spending on children? These are two of the main components of President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, and the case for both is much stronger than the case for entitlement cuts ever was.
Yet whereas calling for Social Security cuts used to be treated as a sort of political badge of seriousness, calling for urgent action on climate and children isn’t. If anything, much reporting on current politics seems to suggest that the handful of Democrats trying to dismantle Build Back Better, to limit the Biden agenda to modest spending on conventional infrastructure, are being responsible, while the progressives trying to make sure that we really do invest in the nation’s future are somehow unserious.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211004192120/https://www.nytimes.com/202
1/10/04/opinion/budget-deficits-climate-child-poverty.html
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Monthly healthcare spending per person is lower for Medicare than for Large Employer Plans
https://angrybearblog.com/2021/10/imca-sets-new-medicare-age-at-60
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Originally posted by SECOND:
If anything, much reporting on current politics seems to suggest that the handful of Democrats trying to dismantle Build Back Better, to limit the Biden agenda to modest spending on conventional infrastructure, are being responsible, while the progressives trying to make sure that we really do invest in the nation’s future are somehow unserious.
Even SNL isn't on board with Build Back Better and the "Progressives".
That should tell you something.
There's a lot of horrible shit in that bill that needs to be removed.
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It wasn’t just that there was segregation, or that the KKK terrorized, or even that lynchings were a frequent event. White supremacy was absolutely baked into the very structure of everyday life. The local and state police were enforcers. To register to vote required passing literacy and citizenship tests which were virtually unpassable for African-Americans. Even counties with an overwhelmingly black population had nearly no registered black voters. And many of the people in these counties lived in grinding poverty, earning only a few dollars a day farming or doing manual labor.
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2021/10/the-moral-axiomatics-of-
robert-moses.html
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So now we just let people murder people and cut them loose so they can continue to murder people.
Great solution to the problem, Second.
You're a fucking idiot and a racist.
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Quote:In such a few words you did a very nice job summarizing what is wrong with the "thinking" of Trump voters. You guys are the epitome of "When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout." No surprise that Trump attracted you. He spent his entire life that same way.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
So now we just let people murder people and cut them loose so they can continue to murder people.
Great solution to the problem, Second.
You're a fucking idiot and a racist.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5398-when-in-danger-or-in-doubt-run-i
n-circles-scream
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You act as if one dumb comment you made got under my skin.
Nah.
This is years of a bunch of Leftist idiots saying a lot of dumb shit.
We're done with you. America is done with you.
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Quote:For ten years I listened to guys say that not stopping Communism in Southeast Asia would cause America to collapse. Those were angry, and deeply frightened men. But one month in Vietnam proved to me those guys (who would evolve into Trumptards) were panicky namby pambies. 6ix, you're no different. Everything scares you guys, sending you running in circles, screaming and shouting. If it is not foreigners on the border, it's terrorists terrorizing you little cowards, or it's crime making you cry. If not that, you're worried about your tiny little bank account and your crappy bungalow and losing your worthless job to China or illegal aliens. Scared and worried all the time, but with no ideas about what to do other than vote for Trump. So sad but Trump is as clueless as you about what to do to make you feel less fearful.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You act as if one dumb comment you made got under my skin.
Nah.
This is years of a bunch of Leftist idiots saying a lot of dumb shit.
We're done with you. America is done with you.
You make Americans look weak, silly, and frightened. But fortunately for your bloated self-esteem, you and run-of-the-mill Trumptards and Trump himself can't stop bragging about qualities you wish you had, but you lack. Who are kidding, other than yourself? Are you expecting a participation award, like some little kid because you vote for the candidate most like yourself: lying-sack-of-shit Donald Trump? Trump is materially good for me. I look forward to his next term in the White House and new tax-cuts for people like me and Trump. I'll get real monetary awards and you'll get participation awards for being a scared child who never grew up.
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