gorgehiker wrote:
If you are saying that Democrats have done what Trump supporters are now doing in the Capital Building, you are lying again.
No, the protesters literally took a dump on the seal of the US while the Democrats only do so figuratively. The Democrats can't seem to find it in their hearts to defend the ideals of the Constitution in a concrete way. They are full of platitudes and suggest we have moral imperatives, etcetera, but they simply CANNOT find a reason to maintain the US Constitution as is, a document empowering the people and restricting the government. This is the exact opposite of 99% of the "changes" the left are championing.
Think it over: EVERY one of the proposals I'm about to mention suggest they empower the voter, but actually bribe the voter by empowering government.
Socialized health care.
THE SELL : People will not go broke, free, tax the rich more....
THE REALITY : Government takes over education, access, rationing of services, price controls, pay scales for doctors.... Access is more limited, options are limited, doctors' numbers will decrease, and people, because of increased taxation, will not have the ability to go buy a better outcome. And the best part, innovation plummets to near zero when profit is removed as a motive to drive investment, investment that either ends, or is funded through still higher taxes.
Student loan forgiveness
THE SELL : Colleges are too expensive. Young people don't deserve the debt. Education should be free.
THE REAITY : First off, college got astronomically more costly at EXACTLY the moment government guaranteed loans. The priority of colleges went from quality to quantity of students, from quality to quantity of majors, and to advertising for more numbers. Universities all over put in 100 million dollar sports complexes, golf courses, water parks, and lesbian studies degrees. Why not? The money is 'guaranteed'. Then there is the problem of rewarding BAD financial choices (big debt) and punishing others who made GOOD choices and worked their own way through their educations. Those who lost a debt pay a small tax for their service but the rest of us pay more taxes for no service at all. And now government power. When government pays for college, ALL the drawbacks of social health care apply.
This is getting too long, but the same problems arise with minimum wages, reparations, UBI, the Green New Deal, trans-ocean business alliances...... all of them put the government actors in the decision making chair and remove choice from the supposedly sovereign citizen. Citizen.....the worst Democrat idea.... allowing virtually anyone to cross into the US, to then vote for handouts, and also to NOT monitor voting with obvious transparency, is nothing but an attempt to seize the reigns of power, power that will NEVER return to the people.