- 05 Jan 2022 14:31
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Funny, how people in the US don’t want the government that runs the Veterans Health Administration in charge of their own health care.
No, the Far Left’s “governments should control everything but the borders” stance would have never been popular with the Far Right. I do agree that in the US the Far Left is only a small minority with positions that are unpopular with most Likely Voters, which is why its veto over the Democrats’ policies is such a problem for the Democratic Party.
Like I said, when you can demonstrate that the US is governed from Brussels instead of Washington, then you can apply European definitions of “Left” and “Right” instead of US ones to US politics.
Please explain to me how surveying people to learn their views on immigration and reporting the results is “divisive.” Isn’t it generally a good thing to know what voters are thinking? Certainly politicians think so.
Drlee wrote:Give me a break. We have a terrible medical system. Absolutely bad. Full stop. Then add to that the inescapable fact that the reason it is bad is that so many people who do not deliver medical care are feeding off of it and you have a disgrace. Every sane country in the world has universal health care of some sort and at a FAR lower cost than we do. This is not "far left".
Funny, how people in the US don’t want the government that runs the Veterans Health Administration in charge of their own health care.
The US has no "far left" of any appreciable size. Biden is center right at best. 40 years ago he would have been far right.
No, the Far Left’s “governments should control everything but the borders” stance would have never been popular with the Far Right. I do agree that in the US the Far Left is only a small minority with positions that are unpopular with most Likely Voters, which is why its veto over the Democrats’ policies is such a problem for the Democratic Party.
Pants-of-dog wrote:I will continue to use English properly and not adopt your weird and incorrect way of describing things simply because they are popular among US conservatives.
Like I said, when you can demonstrate that the US is governed from Brussels instead of Washington, then you can apply European definitions of “Left” and “Right” instead of US ones to US politics.
Your weird blame game is irrelevant, but it does provide a clear example of the exact divisiveness I am discussing, since you are now indulging in that very divisiveness.
“It’s popular, so it is fine for me to hate the Democrats and immigrants because of this”.
Please explain to me how surveying people to learn their views on immigration and reporting the results is “divisive.” Isn’t it generally a good thing to know what voters are thinking? Certainly politicians think so.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke
—Edmund Burke