∞∞∞ wrote:93- I'm more progressive than I've ever been. I used to support some GOP members but as I've grown older, I've seen how **** up the party has become (or maybe always was).
And there's a lot of false equivalencies between the parties, but the voting records are not equivalent at all. I'm not saying either side is clean, but ultimately the GOP is chasing a one-time payout while the DNC is trying to set up long-term health.
If you compare America, its population, and its resources to a fruit tree, the DNC wants to water it, feed it fertilize it, brace it, etc. Hopefully it grows and continues to bear fruit for years. Some years will be better than others, but Americans we'll never live long enough to meet will enjoy the fruit.
The GOP just wants to harvest the fruit and chop the tree down to burn for firewood, even though that means there'll be nothing tomorrow. But they don't give one crap about tomorrow because they won't be here when people start starving. They'll gorge themselves on the fruit for one night and tomorrow's problems are for whoever comes later. And they'll make sure their kids got plenty of fruit while it lasts.
A counterpoint to your tree analogy is that America isn't a single tree but an orchard full of them and that the progressive Berniecrats want all of the trees to be equal. If any tree grows bigger and healthier than the others, the Berniecrats want to trim it back and tape the pieces to the other trees so they don't fee inadequate. Eventually the trimmed trees catch a disease because of the cuttings and the Berniecrats have to cut the smaller trees because they're larger and healthier. It's a downward spiral into Venezuela.
If you look at federal spending (mandatory and discretionary), what kinds of programs is the money being spent on that are all about today with no concern for tomorrow? Who is the "champion" of those programs? I would hazard a guess that social security, medicare/medicaid, health, education, and income security take up a large chunk of the spending. The problem isn't that we're spending too much on Republican priorities rather than Democrat priorities; the problem is that we're spending too much.
