Bruce_T_Laney
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I’m of course referring to the voters in the poor and middle class because the GOP does absolutely nothing for them in terms of policy. I mean it is straight up laughable anyone keeps voting for the GOP especially when it comes to Trump. I mean that is one powerful moron that has his base fooled he gives a shit about their interests.
Now the understandable reaction to this narrative is to compare how democrats feel about their constituents but I liken that to comparing an elephant to a deer. Are democrats bought by corporate special interests like the GOP is? Of course they are. The difference is that democrats, bought or not, actually push policies that benefit the poor and middle class. Let’s compare platforms of both parties:
Republicans:
1) Cut taxes on the wealthy
2) Deregulate basically anything including policies that ensure clean drinking water for the sake of corporate America making an extra buck.
3) Put migrant children into cages indefinitely while the American tax payer handles the bill. Completely pointless but that’s the GOP for you.
That about covers it doesn’t it? Now let’s look at the Democrat platform. Now I do realize that there plenty of democrats who don’t actually care about the American people, but one cannot deny their collective political interests.
1) Investing in infrastructure
2) Making higher education either more affordable or at no cost
3) Raising the minimum wage which is WAY behind on the cost of living.
4) Making healthcare more affordable
5) Funding scientific research and development.
6) Socializing child care to make it more affordable to impoverished parents or single parents.
7) Recognizing that climate change is a real threat to the survival of the human race in the coming decades.
Now the knee jerk reaction from republicans is that ALL of these policies will fail, but even if that were true, there would be no denying that democrats at least make an attempt to better the lives of everyday Americans.
Did you know the interstate system you drive on was Ike idea and he was a Republican!?!
Did you know the EPA you love so much started under Nixon?
Did you know FDR put Japanese Americans into Prison Camps?
Did you know that Obama Immigration Enforcement broke up many families causing hardship on those that were left here after the father or mother were deported?
Did you know Wilson had German Americans arrested for protesting the first World War?
Did you know during Truman tenure that expirements with STD's were done down in Central America with our country blessing?
Did you know Bill Clinton was part of the Welfare Reform of the 1990's?
Hmmm, it seem you love to blame the GOP for a lot while forgetting your own political party has been known for a lot of cruel shit from Genocide, Slavery, Jim Crow and dropping the first Atomic Bomb on a Country and let not forget the countless wars your political party has put us into from Vietnam to the Civil War but hey tell us again how the GOP suck...
Oh, the Navajo Nation thanks Obama EPA for polluting their water when the EPA messed up and allowed that river to be polluted with toxins...
I know it is never the Democrats fault when they do something wrong!