closg00 wrote:I do love the GOP takeover partly because they now own it all now, they have to govern, can’t wait to see their budgets and legislation. The Senate will probably kill the filibuster rule almost immediately to grease the wheels.
GOP had this for Trump's first term and all they managed was a half-assed tax bill. Arguably they'll be better prepared this time around, I guess we'll see.
Benjammin wrote:Pundits are going to pundit, but this list from Matthew Yglesias for Democrats to embrace certainly resonates with me as an independent.
A Common-Sense Democrat Manifesto
Economic self-interest for the working class includes both robust economic growth and a robust social safety net.
The government should prioritize maintaining functional public systems and spaces over tolerating anti-social behavior.
Climate change — and pollution more broadly — is a reality to manage, not a hard limit to obey.
We should, in fact, judge people by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin, rejecting discrimination and racial profiling without embracing views that elevate anyone’s identity groups over their individuality.
Race is a social construct, but biological sex is not. Policy must acknowledge that reality and uphold people’s basic freedom to live as they choose.
Academic and nonprofit work does not occupy a unique position of virtue relative to private business or any other jobs.
Politeness is a virtue, but obsessive language policing alienates most people and degrades the quality of thinking.
Public services and institutions like schools deserve adequate funding, and they must prioritize the interests of their users, not their workforce or abstract ideological projects.
All people have equal moral worth, but democratic self-government requires the American government to prioritize the interests of American citizens.
Nobody, from center-left onwards wants a robust social safety net - at least they don't want to vote for it. universal health care, universal pre-k, etc. Republicans are actively attempting to destroy the bedrock of the American social safety net - public schooling. Lots of people clamoring for vouchers to replace public K12, on both sides of the aisle. It's common sense, but people also want to arm the teachers, and think that public schools are teaching CRT, performing same-day gender reassignment surgeries, and letting kids that identify as furries use litter boxes. Tell me if common sense is prevailing on this issue.
And what difference does someone's biological sex have on anything? Are people not allowed to take rogain, viagra, get plastic surgery, wear color contacts either because it's contrary to their genetic makeup? hearing aids are unnatural and an affront to God? It's a private, non-political issue that only involves a person and their health care provider, and is made front page news, presumably in the free-est country on earth.
It's 2024, and we're still talking about PC culture like we're Dennis Miller in 1992?
And that last bit about immigrants is so lacking in substance, I don't even know if it's worth a quippy reply, much less a serious conversation about human dignity, economic realities, or how it's chapter 1 for Fascism for Dummies.
Benjammin wrote: She lost. Life does go on.
It might for you, and it might for me, but it won't for many others, and that's the problem.
