I think you’re allowing wishful thinking and your own bias to turn generic politics into “Democrats are evil” once again. I think you’ll agree that it would be pretty easy to find a Republican saying or doing everything you’re accusing Democrats of doing here.
As for electing them “unconditionally”, there’s no way to conditionally elect someone. Maybe you mean support them unconditionally, but liberals and Democrats criticize their leaders all the time, including on the Dope.
Right now, the parties really are different. One is a functional party living in the real world of policy and facts. The other is not, and probably hasn’t really been for 8 years or more (though it’s far worse today). Romney embraced Trump, birtherism and all, in 2012. The party tolerated conspiracy theories for years, never sanctioning crank Congressmen like Steve King or Gohmert for spreading them.
In 1995 they made a lot of changes, and even more in 2011. They party is starting to turn against corporate welfare at the same time that Democrats are embracing it. They also restored the proper processes to Congressional procedure so that the minority party could have a voice.
Parts of ACA violated the commerce clause and the 10th amendment. The Obama administration’s interpretation of religious freedom has been struck down by the Supreme Court several times but they keep at it. They passed a Bill of Attainder to tax AIG bonuses at 90%.
Mainly immigration laws. Deportation of anyone caught here illegally is the law and is supported by vast majority of both parties. Both Obama and Clinton don’t want to deport anyone except felons, yet no Democrat in Congress would ever lift a finger to actually make that the law.
The health care law, the Iran deal, and both the Obama and Clinton campaigns position on trade deals. I’ll also add Obama’s opposition to an individual mandate and gay marriage. Let’s also throw in Senate Democratic candidates talking about how much they support guns and coal, but vote with the national party when called upon to do so. Lying to voters has been mainstreamed to an extent we’ve never seen before. And it’s so shameless now that they crow about it after the fact.
True. But not all Republicans and I don’t intend to make this nation a one-party state. At least not until the Democrats embrace the earmark ban, support getting rid of alll corporate welfare, especially the Ex-im Bank, support faithful execution of the laws of our country, and stop lying about their opposition to free trade every Presidential election. It would also be nice if Blue Dogs were allowed to keep their promises to their constituents and stop Democratic legislation their constituents oppose rather than “taking one for the team”. But given how the Blue Dogs almost went extinct in the last two midterms I suspect that won’t be much of a problem anymore.
Republicans have had things struck down too. This doesn’t tell us anything but that the parties often disagree on what is Constitutional and what is not.
If they aren’t acting within the law, then Congress has the power to sanction them. Both Obama and Clinton claim that their actions are within their power and the law. If they’re illegal then that will work its way through the courts.
This is the biggest pile of bullshit in the field. We’ve shown again and again how Republicans are less honest (or at least less factual, which is indeed related considering the clarity of many of these facts), in general, than Clinton and Obama (and other Democrats). Lying (or, really, politicking) is no more “mainstream” now than in the past, and is certainly not unique to any president or party. The worst you can say is that voters have gotten savvier and don’t expect as much honesty from their politicians – but the politicians certainly aren’t any less honest.
Who knows? We might be interested in your opinions on lesser-known, down-ballot races. I enjoy reading many of adaher’s posts on these, and on historical facts about party positions and such. I don’t agree with his essentially conservative political stance, and he apparently gets a few facts wrong at times (according to Dopers who know more than I do), but lately I’ve learned some things thanks to adaher.
Knows nothing of economics: will :“veto any bills containing expenditures in excess of revenues”, supports ending the federal personal and corporate income tax system and replacing it with the FairTax reform proposal, supported ending the Federal Reserve …
is in favor of lowering the legal drinking age to 18, or eliminating the drinking age outright Talks a good talk about ending government debt but "“Johnson inherited a debt of $1.8 billion and left a debt of $4.6 billion.”
Supports Private prisons, likes fracking, Likes the TPP
And knows absolutely nothing about world politics, and even admitted it.
Sanchez decided her only shot was running well to the right of Harris, don’t think we can call her a liberal currently. Maybe sometime later if/when **that **becomes more expedient to her political aspirations.
The same reason people support privatization of other government activities. Supposedly it’ll save money because private industries look at the bottom line instead loving bloated bureaucracy. I don’t buy that much nor would it be the biggest concern I had anyway but that’s one of the main arguments.
Here is another example of what I was talking about, the CFPB being struck down. There is just no way that Democrats didn’t know it was unconstitutional to have a totally unaccountable federal agency involved in rulemaking:
That’s the problem, they didn’t want it to be accountable to either the President or Congress, or anybody. The director of the CFPB would have decided the agency’s funding. Democrats really do want to cede all the power of the elected branches to the administrative state. until they change their views on that, I’ll need alternatives.
Well, some of you seem to have dreams of Democratic dominance. There are a few, er, pathologies that need to be addressed first before you drive a stake through the hearts of your opposition. As of today, Democrats have the Presidency, and well, nothing else except a few states. Some people wanted to know why I still support the GOP, well, that’s why, and I’m not alone. We’re not all just crazy yahoos.