Crepitus
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But it is. Look at the kooks flailing about desperately trying to come up with some sort of fraud and unable to find it.I'm ok with most of that.That depends entirely on what you mean by "conservative".RESISTANCE!
And all that shit bro....
Or no?
It would be a step in the right direction if he just pushed for non-partisan reforms. I don't expect him to become a libertarian, but there are plenty of issues, and solutions to those issues, that have broad appeal.
There are many, many other issue were we could all find some agreement. D's and R's don't try because they define themselves in opposition. They focus on the differences, and scaring people with those differences, because it what drives their respective bases. But neither side should govern that way. Seeking broad consensus makes for better, more stable, government.
- Criminal Justice reform: Get rid of privately run prisons. Government shouldn't be outsourcing its dirty work.
- Demilitarize the police: Don't "defund" them. Pay cops more, and fire them at the first hint of abuse.
- End the drug war: plenty of people, on all sides, are coming to the realization it was a bad idea.
- Tax reform: get rid of all the incentives and deductions, and simplify the tax code.
- College debt: End government-sponsored, predatory lending to hapless students.
- Pandemic response: We need to codify how government should respond to serious pandemics - with carefully designed constraints on that power. It should more than governors shooting from the hip.
- China policy: Biden could earn a lot of respect from R's, and the rest of us, if he played hardball with China. Hold them accountable for launching COVID-19 on the world.
- Election reform: Regardless of Trump's feckless whining, our election system is a mess. And I'm not talking about the EC or other partisan issues. I'm talking about the simple mechanics of how it works. We should know who won the Presidential election by 10:00pm the night of. Even during a pandemic.
China didn't "unleash the epidemic", that's just a conspiracy theory.
I don't mean they pushed it out there. But they hid the truth, actively suppressed it, from the rest of the world until it was too late. That's well documented, not a conspiracy theory.
Elections have always been certified just the way they are being now.
Yes, and it's high time the process was modernized. Many third world countries have better run, and more secure, elections than we do. We need to bring our system into the 21st century. Point is, it's not a partisan issue.