Quote:Republicans have largely attained all the goals they set out to achieve around the time Reagan was elected, but Democrats are still eternally on step one of... well, any issue they're supposed to be behind.
To pick two: The Department of Education has not been eliminated (now it has an armed force) and no balanced budget has ever occurred, indeed the federal government has grown by 60+% relative to GDP and is only set to increase exponentially until it consumes everything.
(09-23-2023, 12:03 PM)Megamandrn001 wrote: This isn't a rejection of Democracy. It's a rejection of the idea that America has ever had a truly functional one. If it ever did, it certainly doesn't now.
I'm not against the idea of incremental change. I'm against the idea of incremental change being the only tool in the toolbox that is useful in all political climes and eras. It's perfectly fine in times of relative internal peace and relative unity. This has not described America since roughly around Nixon.
You're going to have to define "functional" and "democracy" for me before I can ascertain if this is utopianism or an actual political position.
(09-23-2023, 12:19 PM)Megamandrn001 wrote: If someone wants single payer healthcare, with no compromises, something much of the rest of the world has
This is not remotely correct.
(09-23-2023, 12:16 PM)Nintex wrote: I don't know why the west allows itself to be destroyed like this.
For example, why do we allow the Turks to ship thousands of Africans to Europe who start groping the NGO workers the minute they arrive? Is it a fetish?
Because autarky is stupid and what the people you claim to be fighting desire.
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