Originally Posted by Ricky Tavy
I believe "both parties are equally bad" is cynicism pretending to be sophistication. The Regressives work hard to promote that notion, because it fits their silly meme that a popular sovereignty government is the enemy of the people. "We have met the enemy, and he is us!"
The right is appealing to the worst elements of our nature and has nothing but contempt for most of us. At a time of terrific debt, they still insist on tax cuts, especially for the wealthy because the know others will be happy with scraps. They excuse it by saying the government spends to much money on "those people" ... you know the lazy ones and illegal immigrants with "welfare Cadillacs." They attack our free press as fake news. They point to people who have been fired for getting things wrong as evidence of bias, oblivious to this proving there is a price to pay in the news media for being wrong. Bottom line, the Regressives benefit if they can convince everyone the government is bad. Then, they can stop it from working on things like consumer and environmental protection. They can continue the trickle-on, free-lunch, supply-side scam that has led to the disparity of wealth and income we see today.
And, it is working. Saw a poll recently that showed more Americans believe the Regressives are better for the economy. There is no factual support for this. The economy has done better historically under Dems than it has under the people who gave us the Great Rightard Depression and the Great Rightard Recession. And, the Regressive administration in which the economy did really well was when Eisenhower did big-time taxing and spending. Tales of St. Raygun's great economy are myths. His mediocrity was achieved by putting the economy on a credit card so Yuppies could get rich and others got scraps. He then passed on huge deficits to Bubba, who not only cleaned up that mess but gave us a much better economy than anything we had under the gimper. Trickle-on II under bush gave us a recession that would have been a depression if not for Obama.
Both parties are not the same. Liberal and conservative philosophies are not the same. It is wrong and even intellectually lazy to be conned by that Regressive manipulation.