Divided country - can politicians find more ways to work across the aisle ?
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Anonymous
Lol |
Anonymous
What solutions or ideas does the GOP have to offer the American public? Solution for healthcare? Solution for Russia? Solution for inflation? Solution for immigration? Solution for women's health? Seriously, other than anger, grievance and lies, what is the GOP offering? |
Anonymous
DP That’s a good list. What areas have the most potential for common ground? |
Anonymous
None of those. The GOP wants to reduce healthcare spending by spending less for Medicare/Medicaid regardless of the cost of treatment. Democrats want to spend less by lowering the cost of treatments. Democrats support Ukraine, the GOP supports Russia. Neither party has control over inflation. The GOP needs immigration to rally the base and has zero incentive to do anything, while Dems have supported e-verify. Dems want to protect a women’s right to choose and the GOP wants authority over women’s bodies |
Anonymous
Your party just got a shellacking. Kindly return to reality. |
Anonymous
And yours didn't? Amazing that you refuse to acknowledge your own losses. |
Anonymous
Low information voter wants to hold one party accountable for global inflation while failing to recognize that the other party offered no solution because it’s largely a supply driven issue beyond the control of any one nation. |
Anonymous
The Democrats were expected to lose mightily and they didn’t. What’s your point again? |
Anonymous
The democrats didn’t lose a state legislative chamber. They will gain a seat in the Senate. They will lose only one to three seats in the House despite redistributing and an utter debacle in NY. It’s a midterm result unparalleled in modern history. |
Anonymous
| Where’s the “red wave” of 60 seats that MAGA was promising? |
Anonymous
They are miles apart - So you think there is little chance to make any progress in any areas the next two years? Dems and Republicans tend to agree on the importance of family and children. Consider what policies that help children and families might fly. Family/ child tax breaks Early childhood education Education - invest in both public and private options Reducing digital divide so all children have access to online learning Regulation of porn/ inappropriate content on social media popular with children and teens Fighting Crime Invest more in police training Federal guidelines for police trainings Social security - most Americans want to save it - what actions could both parties agree to? Immigration Get rid of green card lottery Make policies less political and more practical by favoring more merit based immigration based on whatever professions are needed most each year (trades/ nurses/ doctors/ dentists/ engineers/ agricultural workers/ seafood farmersetc) Retain some humanitarian asylum seekers but let states decide limits on numbers Health Consider 1% tax for universal health care If not, Consider ways to make sure children and minors all have access to health services Education is best way to reduce teenage pregnancies Competition Enforce antitrust laws again and promote fair competition Tax breaks for Small businesses that employ the vast majority of Americans Probably many areas where the parties could find common ground if they choose to act like grown ups |
Anonymous
It hit menopause before reaching shore. |
Anonymous
It didn’t happen but neither do a blue wave. That is the point of this post - US is evenly divided. We have to find common ground and work together … |
Anonymous
We saw this play out during Obamacare. The GOP would say they’d vote for health care reform if it only included X. Dems would say okay, let’s add X. Then the GOP still voted no. The GOP platform is all about making things worse when they’re in the minority and blaming Dems. Then tax cuts and higher defense spending when the GOP is in the majority. That’s been the playbook since the 90s. |
Anonymous
This is the message Dems need to hammer home. |