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Both sides have had good policies and both sides have had bad policies It's the extremism from either that creates the worst policies.
Good point. The issue though is that the left clearly has its extremism in check, given how many patently pro-business policies the Obama administration promulgates, along with their socially-conscious policies. Meanwhile, all that is left of the right-wing is extremism, their petulant RINO-hunts having marginalized moderate voices on the right.
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So what I have got from this thread is nothing.
With respect, I think the thread is not asking a reasonably definitive question. Economic injustice has doubled in the last generation, mostly due to how vigorously the right-wing has gone to the extreme, aided by how that has driven the left to the center. That has been good for rich Americans.
What I think you're asking, though, is which of their policies have been good for the rest of Americans. That's clearly a different answer. The best the right-wing can claim in that regard is that they've done a few things that were good for some of the rest of Americans, at the expense of the rest of the rest. So essentially, everything right-wingers can point to as "good" is really just "a wash" - good for some bad for others.
Don't get me wrong: The same can be said of the left. The difference is that those that are aided by the left are those most vulnerable in society, while the right-wing never misses a chance to make poor people even more desperate, never misses a chance to push poor people closer and closer to falling over the cliff. Moral people say that the gauge of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. So according to an immoral scale, perhaps the left and right are comparable in this regard, but according to every generally-accepted moral scale, the right is an abomination, and the left the only thing keeping the right from committing the very worst they can commit.
Actually the strong dollar in the early 1980s contributed to a large ballooning trade deficit. And it's funny that you touted Reagan for his economic policy - you seemed to forget that in 1985, at the Plaza Accord, the US (with the agreement of the other G7 nations) deliberately beat down the USD to stimulate exports and to cut the merchandise trade deficit.
But strictly speaking, having an relatively undervalued or overvalued currency doesn't really fit into the left wing/right wing political narrative.
Well I thought this thread would be a list of Republican accomplishments, like ending Jim Crow, the interstate highway system, ending the cold war, welfare reform, etc. Not really sure what this thread is about now though.
Well I thought this thread would be a list of Republican accomplishments, like ending Jim Crow, the interstate highway system, ending the cold war, welfare reform, etc. Not really sure what this thread is about now though.
Right wing policy. Right wing-The conservative or reactionary faction of a group
policy-a principle or protocol to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes
Let me ask you this, how is having a gigantic welfare state more beneficial?
GI Bill and social security are barely solvent anymore because the left keeps dipping into those funds.
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The left wing has the GI bill, the new deal, social security. What about the right wing?
Eisenhower's warning to beware the undue influence of the MIC was a great RW policy idea. Ignoring it has been nothing but detrimental to the country.
Agreed. Eisenhower was a great president. Sadly, his ideas have been completely ignored by the modern Republican Party. Can you see our current far right-wing Congress passing something like the interstate highway system? They won't even adequately fund our current infrastructure as it stands now.
"BP" was caused by the liberals who pushed oil exploration into areas unsafe for drilling because they did not want oil rigs in shallower water.
But deepwater horizon wasn't BP's only disaster. BP is a disaster because they are a bad company. The real problem was lack of enforcing hazard regulation.
Anyone gonna argue with me about Comcast though? We freed up the internet markets in 2002 and what a blessing it's been since.
Agreed. Eisenhower was a great president. Sadly, his ideas have been completely ignored by the modern Republican Party. Can you see our current far right-wing Congress passing something like the interstate highway system? They won't even adequately fund our current infrastructure as it stands now.
Actually, that's one of the few things both left and right agree upon - infrastructure. The fundamental disagreement stems from how to pay for it.
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