GOP: Pledge unthinking loyalty to Donald Trump. He gives you absolution. Whatever is wrong in your life, there is someone else to blame. The media, the Deep State, the Democrats, immigrants, Muslims.
DNC: There are solutions if we discuss the problem, identify the cause and make the appropriate changes. Democracy works best when it works for everyone. Don't use oppression, suppression and discrimination as tools to benefit the few.
Alright, let's get to work. Let's discuss the problems and change. I am not opposed to changing so that all continue to have equal opportunities. I object when the fruits of my labors are confiscated in order to insure an equal outcome for those who are incapable or unwilling to invest the sweat equity needed to earn what I have earned.
Equal outcome is the phrase used by any opposition to equal opportunity. No one advocates equal outcome in a serious way.
If people are offered an affordable education, affordable healthcare, affordable housing it would make things just a little easier for them to determine their own outcomes.
Changes like free community college or trade schools will make opportunity at least visible. Universal healthcare like every other industrialized nation would make opportunity just a little easier to obtain. Affordable housing would bring dignity to families making opportunity just a little easier to realize.
Some folks call those solutions Socialism and shut down further debate. Some say those changes cost too much, yet when massive tax breaks for the wealthiest among us are proffered, we seem to be able to carve out the federal budget to make that happen.
Everyone pays taxes. I have no children, yet I am taxed to pay for schools. My home is on a secure area of town. The cops spend most of their time patrolling the poorer neighborhoods. Yet I pay taxes supporting the police. Are my taxes being unjustly confiscated to pay for services I do not use? Schools ensure the future and I, for one, have no problem supporting the future, as those who came before me supported my future.
Is it reasonable that a nation which touts being among the wealthiest, most secure and most free cannot afford to make life just a little easier for the vast majority of its citizens? In a time where wages are stagnant, the richest are getting richer by making nothing but more money on the money they already have, why should people worry about securing medical care, education and decent safe and affordable housing?