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by ubermonkey 320 days ago
"Anymore?" At what point has the GOP worked for "the people" at all?

I'm 55. At no point in my life has the GOP pushed any policy initiative that would help regular humans. Instead, they've been the party of fearmongering -- about women, about drugs, about immigrants, about African Americans, about gay people, and the devil, about trans people, etc.

The Dems have been the party that advanced actual helpful policies, but holy crap do they ever have a messaging problem IN ADDITION to an effectiveness issue. But at least their marching orders are actually helpful.
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criddell 320 days ago
Nixon created the EPA, he expanded the Clean Air Act, he signed the Endangered Species Act. He did a lot of good for the environment in the early 70's.
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silverquiet 320 days ago
> in the early 70's

Calling back to a time before the middle-aged GP could even tie his own shoes is not really much of an argument.

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asadotzler 320 days ago
"at no point in my life"
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jayd16 320 days ago
You probably have to go back to before the civil rights movement.
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bell-cot 320 days ago
> I'm 55. At no point in my life has the GOP pushed any policy initiative that would help regular humans.

You're overstating the case a bit. Nixon and Ford were not bad for most people. Nixon's motives might have been extremely self-serving on domestic issues - but he was re-elected in '72, amid the Vietnam War and many other troubles, with 60.7% of the popular vote. Take a peek at his domestic policies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#Domestic_policy He didn't need Watergate, nor any other dirtywork to easily win the election - he just couldn't keep himself from scratching his Paranoid Creepy Idiot itch.

Yes, after Ford, the GOP was taken over by a team-up of "Conquer, Loot, and Pillage" fiscal conservatives, and "Dump Jesus and Jimmy, 'Cause Our Rightful Kingdom is of This World" religious conservatives.

Flip-side, I don't see the Dems nearly so favorably. In the Carter-ish years they phased out most of their historic concern for ordinary Americans. In favor of hanging out with rich & slimy, and performative concern for ever-smaller minorities.

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ubermonkey 320 days ago
>I don't see the Dems nearly so favorably.

I supposed my opinion may be colored by the fact that I have friends who can afford to be alive today because of the ACA, so...

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