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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The shift in both parties is largely the result of the 1994 and 2010 elections in which moderate Democrats in right-leaning districts were replaced by paranoid idiot Republicans. Then when the Democrats took back seats in 2006 and 2018 they beat more moderate suburban Republicans, not the lunatics. [/quote]

And those people in the moderate suburbs have now seen exactly what “moderate” democrats are - and will be tossing them out in November. [/quote]
I bet you’re claiming to be a “staunch Democrat” on other threads tonight, aren’t you.

The fact of the GOP’s extremism are evident to all, as is the risk that they pose to the US.

For example, here are two cases of right wing extremist movements that are currently posing a threat to the country’s safety (along with many other right wing domestic terrorists such as what we saw on 1/6). These people are totally welcome and at home in the GOP: 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/incel-threat-secret-service-report/?dc_data=1131694_samsung-carnival-us&utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=taboola_news&utm_campaign=ECCBSiCBSNews&ui=e305b5ff-f116-401e-ae93-5bc95e33ef3f-tuct925560b

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-preparing-war-an-expert-civil-wars-discusses-where-political-extremists-are-taking-this-country/[/quote]

I don't discount what the GOP did and did not do on Jan 6th. I also think the 'there's a civil war coming!' people are nuts. Isn't Covid enough for you? If not that - you're welcome to focus your militant dreams on what's happening in Ukraine.

As far as normal domestic policy goes, you'll be very surprised as how more moderate people become when they can't buy milk in the aisles.

[twitter]https://twitter.com/LAist/status/1509666989542940678[/twitter][/quote]

What do you imagine that Republicans would do about inflation? They are incapable of anything but obstruction in Congress. They have no coherent policy agenda. They can’t discuss the economy or inflation or anything else without a half dozen lies, distortions, and absurd conspiracies. We have inflation because we are in an economic boom after a severe disruption that reshuffled the global economy. Jobs and profits are way up. Poverty is down. It’s much better than 2020 even with inflation. [/quote]

To start they’d reopen the pipelines to lower gas prices, introduce a gas tax holiday nationally and encourage businesses who need the gas to deliver goods and services. Passing along savings to consumers.

Practical ideas that work and before you say ‘that wouldn’t happen’ can I point you to this?

[twitter]https://twitter.com/Brad7News/status/1504889623968985093[/twitter][/quote]

I knew you would say pipelines! Pipelines do not create new oil & gas. They are a distribution method for oil & gas we are already getting. Starting or restarting pipeline projects would have no effect on supply or price. [/quote]

Bottlenecking increases price - no one told you that?[/quote]

That isn’t what is happening. Pipelines are irrelevant. But they do serve as a tell to identify clueless people who think a pipeline project is a solution to temporary inflation. [/quote]

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