Replies to post #411645 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[brooklyn13]

The Republicans have no platform, no actual agenda to change anything. They present no ideas about how to tackle any important civic issue, from crumbling infrastructure to voter suppression to climate change to income inequality to student debt. Nothing.

Medical expenses leading to bankruptcies? They're unaware..

https://www.thebalance.com/medical-bankruptcy-statistics-4154729

Low literacy rates? Nothing to see here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/09/09/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-could-be-costing-the-economy-22-trillion-a-year/?sh=6fe9b3ad4c90

The entirety of their construct is to create social wedge issues and to scare people about them and to try to convince people that, whatever it is, it's the Democrat's fault. Which is a reasonable plan to run elections but not so much on governing when they win. How can you run a government when your campaign has been based on being anti-government, anti-expertise, anti-education?

Is being anti-Critical Race Theory (without knowing what it actually is), womb control, prayer in schools, anti-LGBTQ legislation, repealing the ACA, pro all guns, really any way to move the country forward? Conservatives are doing what they've been doing since the Civil War. Fighting the rich man's wars, sacrificing their children and their lives so that the plantation owners can continue their lives of luxury.

The more things change the more they remain the same. There's still a sucker born every minute.

[wEaReLeGiOn]

Words and meaning can change overnight in the English language. I would say "gay" would be a good parallel. There are old people around who still lament homosexuals commandeering "their" word. So, you don't have me convinced *yet* with your proposition on this one.

Their abuse of the word "woke" could be seen as a sign of them taking an arrogant position of racial superiority. The word first used by blacks to warn other blacks, and their children, to be aware of dangers about them.

I think you will find this, oh lala, je ne sais quoi =)