icaritos said:
Ahhh let me guess, another one who votes conservative simply because of issues like abortion while ignoring their extreme corporatism, refusal to increase taxes under the crisis, destruction of the social services and social nets as well as pushing for the commercialization of every governmental sector.
You do know they don't care about issues like abortion at all right? When they were in power there wasn't a single bill passed or suggested to address the matter, they just pick the rhetoric up in between presidential sections to harness votes, then promptly forget it exists.
Still you haven't answered my question.How do you rationalize all they are doing? Look at the U.S., salaries for middle and lower class have remained stagnant for 30 years while the top 5% flourish, the worst health care and public transport of all the developed nations and every single legislation passed is done with disregard to the middle to lower classes (ban obamacare, support for removal of minimum wage, the Wisconsin fiasco, cuts to science and arts departments, citizens united ruling,endless war support with the exception of people like Ron Paul, etc).
Hey now, one could just as easily criticize liberals and progressives for supporting policies that have unintended but foreseeable consequences that hurt the very people they purport to help, enacting economic regulations that ultimately give greater power to the large corporations they claim to restrain, conflating opposition to their policies with opposition to their stated goals, being completely ignorant of economic reality by simultaneously viewing wealth and income distribution as zero-sum while otherwise ignoring the fact that all choices involve trade-offs, refusing to admit the trade-offs implicit in the policies they support, falsely assuming that science is capable of making value judgements and that therefore scientific facts necessarily imply specific courses of action, and for their deep abiding faith in centralized planning and concomitant distrust of organic development.
In short, put the kool-aid down and step out of the echo chamber, because conservatives are not the source of all that is bad in American politics, nor is the left the sole locus of good.
To wit:
Obamacare is a deeply flawed policy, sold to the public as health-care reform even though it only reforms health
coverage. As a community-rated, guaranteed-issue, forced-participation system, it is effectively a tax on young and healthy people to subside older and unhealthy people (and while one can make arguments in support of that, it's simply not possible when the bill's supporters refused to even admit that inconvenient fact). Furthermore, by expanding medical coverage, the bill necessarily increases demand for medical services - but since the bill does nothing to address the limited supply of medical care in this country, medical costs will have to go up, and if they are not allowed to, the net result will be a shortage of medical care.
Research has shown time and time again that the minimum wage ultimately
reduces employment, particularly youth employment, and in the long run also reduces the wages paid to unskilled laborers.
Citizens United v. FEC is widely and almost willfully misunderstood by the American left, who seem to impart an almost magical power over elections to money, far in excess of it's actual influence.
As far as "endless war", need I point out that Obama has continued Bush's wars and added one of his own, and continues essentially all of Bush's wartime policies? That Clinton had has own wars? That the overwhelming majority of wars the US has fought since the start of the 20th century have been fought by Democratic administrations? That the power to wage war ultimately resides in Congress, which has been controlled by the Democratic party for most of the last 100 years?
