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The positive is that, in order to regain relevance, the Republican Party would have to purge itself of people who repeat idiotic nonsense like the above.
I guess that depends on your definition of relevance. State legislatures favor republicans nearly 2:1 and the democrats have about as small of a majority as they could get, the federal government is split nearly down the middle. The state legislatures not so much.
So when you say relevance that’s all relative, it seems.
Did we go to war with Trump?
Economy was hot when Trump was in office.
I thought he did a great Job. That's my reality. Y'all can say otherwise but he was GREAT for this country. Never heard him push race or open wide the borders so we come a 3rd world country and want to start wars. Trump was all about peace and worked hard for us 100%. Dems just too wussy to put up with a confident man that didn't put up with crap from dems.
While he sold billions of dollars of arms to the Saudis so they could slaughter the Yemenis. A real "man of peace". The rest of the time he was playing golf.
.... it is possible to have a one-party system in the US, if there is consensus on the major issues, as in the Era of Good Feelings. Fat chance of that happening again. .....
The sad thing is that there sometimes IS a consensus on the major issues but the parties divide them and do the ol' flip-flop because now "the other guy" wants it. Building the wall is a great example; first it was okay when o'bama wanted to do it but when Pres. Trump wanted to do the same, it suddenly became wrong.
"...Joe Biden has been in the White House before, as Vice President during the Obama administration. Instead of halting construction and removing walls, they built more than 100 miles of new wall along the southwest border". southernborder.org
Considering republicans are the only ones interested in destroying democracy, it would certainly benefit them - albeit just like the high-ranking ones.
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Did we go to war with Trump?
Economy was hot when Trump was in office.
I thought he did a great Job. That's my reality. Y'all can say otherwise but he was GREAT for this country. Never heard him push race or open wide the borders so we come a 3rd world country and want to start wars. Trump was all about peace and worked hard for us 100%. Dems just too wussy to put up with a confident man that didn't put up with crap from dems.
-Trump abandoned our allies and obligations in Syria allowing Russia to walk in and take over and leaving the
Kurds to be slaughtered. He also undermined the Military Authority by overturning valid court marshals
-Economy was good and growing when he came in, point out what he did to make a difference but don't ask
the farmers who lost out big time with his fake Trade War with China.
-Heard him lambaste elected officials at all levels of government both parties included. He gutted our
diplomatic & intelligence communities leaving us vulnerable on multiple fronts while he courted despots and
dictators who would kiss his a**.
- Did nothing with immigration reform, updating of our laws on it or improved the "WALL" beyond adding 6
miles of fence. What he did was shut down almost all legal immigration, treated those seeking refuge IAW
our existing laws as criminals, displayed 0 humanity while calling out everyone else as less than human.
- Don't forget about all the crooks & conmen he pardoned because those are his buddies....
Trump was all about his shallow self, confident try a petulant 5 year old that is still having a temper tantrum over losing fair and square. Crap from the Dems how about the we don't want to play GOP, if there not willing to participate in the process than don't complain about the results.
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Even the people in control don't really want one party. A second party means someone to blame for either creating a situation or for stalling the perceived fix, when in reality the fix was never going to be implemented anyway.
Considering republicans are the only ones interested in destroying democracy, it would certainly benefit them - albeit just like the high-ranking ones.
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, breaks down every aspect of liberal democracies and proposes completely illiberal solutions and you see the Republicans as the group that want to destroy democracy?
Just one of their proposals:
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Cumulative voting, proposed by a leading critical race theorist, would circum- vent some of these problems by allowing voters facing a slate of ten candidates, for example, to place all ten of their votes on one, so that if one of the candidates is, say, an African American whose record and positions are attractive to that community, that candidate should be able to win election. The same author has provided a number of suggestions aimed at ameliorating the predicament of the lone black or brown legislator who is constantly outvoted in the halls of power or required to engage in exchanges of votes or favors to register an infrequent victory.
Anyways, that’s probably one of the lesser radical proposals. One of the more radical is:
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A perhaps more likely outcome is that some of critical race theory will be accepted by society’s mainstream and halls of power, while other parts of it will continue to meet resistance. The narrative turn and storytelling scholarship seem well on their way toward acceptance, as does the cri- tique of merit. More radical features, such as recognition that the status quo is inherently racist, rather than merely sporadically and accidentally so, seem less likely to win out.
From the same link above.
The existential threat from each of the ideologies are not even close in terms of which one is more of a threat.
I would like to know when we officially hit "Venezuela" status. Thank you in advance.
Remember that Venezuela was the poster child for "Socialism done right" with praises heaped upon them .... right up to the point where everything collapsed.
Everything seemed to catch up to them all at once. Massively inflated currency. An economy that produces nothing and just exports oil. Endless social programs and spiraling government debt. They were doing great until the house of cards came crashing down. Now look at them.
The collapse tends to come suddenly and unexpectedly, just like any flavor of widescale Communism.
I like Desantis, but I can't live in swampy Florida.
I would like it if he ran for President, I don't think he's mentioned if he would, but I prefer him over Trump because while they share similar qualities, Desantis is a bit more polished, Trump was a his own enemy a bit too much.
Until the Dems go more center and lose the racism woke progressive intersectionality garbage, I'm done with them.
lol. I actually never preferred FL because of the hurricanes. We get enough in SC but they get a lot more. They scare me. I also don't like the humidity and no 4 seasons but it sure beats living under dems with people like Harris in charge. Those swamps and hurricanes start sounding very nice. lol
I never minded Trump's personality. I loved it. He didnt' hold back so you always knew where he stood and each day you knew what he was up to because he tweeted. Either Trump or Desantis would be fine with me.
Yep, this woke stuff and racism has got to go. They are cramming it down our throats.
One party rule is a bad idea no matter who it is. The good news is, an opposition party tends to pop into existence when one of the two parties dies. Remember the Whigs? The Republicans seamlessly replaced them.
If you want to know what one party rule looks like, just look at Marxist USSR and China, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and any other dictatorship. It's not good.
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