Quote (Thor123422 @ Apr 7 2020 08:57am)
Seems like you're giving Republicans the most generous interpretations you can and cherry picking the worst of the left and playing it off as representative of the whole. I bet you watch Sargon of Akkad and Ben Shapiro and think they're objective.
If anything, I'm being overly generous to both sides. But my boil down on it, and the majority of the reason I voted for Trump when I voted AGAINST W. Bush twice, and FOR Obama twice had to do with seeing what the actual policies of the DNC had created, how they'd harmed our economy, put the burden of the health insurance for the unemployed and elderly square on the backs of the lower/middle working class, overly regulated and taxed everything regarding business AND power production and distribution to the point that my electric bill went from $17/month to $150/month with the same usage, and more. It became time to ignore any accusations that were not accompanied by hard evidence, and simply look at the facts. The platforms as they appeared:
Republican:
1. American first trade policies that would protect the American worker from having to compete with slave-level labor of nations that are violating international agreement in treatment and compensation of workers.
2. Secure the borders and reduce the flow as much as realistically possible of those who would enter illegally for any reason, and in so doing, minimize the threat of the drug trade and terrorism (which have been positively linked).
3. Actively Deport criminal aliens and discontinue the catch and release practice that had been occurring.
4. Do whatever could be done to undo the ACA, pharmaceutical protectionism, and the individual mandate requiring people to purchase a financial service simply because they exist.
5. Utilize American oil and natural gas fully, using the safest and most modern (efficient and environmentally conscious) methods to transport and utilize those goods, and remove excess taxes against the companies and customers of those goods that were driving the costs to the working classes sky high.
6. Remove the road blocks preventing solid trade deals such as the pipelines to/from Canada, for mutual benefit.
7. Prevent further attempts to infringe on the first and second amendments.
Democrats:
1. Further increase globalization of trade in such a way that the company that outsources both production and labor to the third world will gain the greatest profit.
2. Further the "One Earth" policy of borderless nations, allowing a more fluid transfer of people into and out of the US, without monitoring or vetting.
3. In line with number two, claim that people are people, and if they're in America, they're Americans, and should be treated as such. Abolishment of ICE and discontinuation of deportation except in extreme circumstances.
4. Increase the fine for failing to comply with the individual mandate, allocate more funds towards propping up the ACA Marketplace, work on a way to publicize healthcare entirely before the system bankrupts the nation.
5. Prevent any new breakthroughs, pipelines, clean coal upgrades and advancements, and load on more taxes on these methods of power production. Add billions in funding to solar and wind technology, hope something that provides significantly more energy than is required to produce and maintain it is created. Call anyone who questions this method a science denier.
6. Actively attempting to drastically increase representation of non whites and women in any position of power, regardless of qualification.
7. Trump is the end of the world, if he is elected, it'll be nuclear war, or a crashed economy, or terrorists will win. One of those, magically, somehow.
8. Drastically redefine the second amendment to allow violations of the rights it guarantees without any need for a judgement by a jury of peers. Redefine the first amendment to disallow any form of offensive speech, and an attempt to prevent religious institutions from discussing anything that might influence their congregations' political stance.
The left accused the right of having an overly religious overtone in their policy terms, when there were next to none. The left accused the right of being hand in hand with white supremacists and neonazis, which is completely alien to the conservative worldview from the start, and is also untrue. The left accused the right of having excessive numbers of sexual scandals, and claimed to have victims enough on hand to make the case, and never took it anywhere, because nobody can remain anonymous in court, it was just a dirty tactic. The left accused trump of all kinds of horrible things, and held a couple year long investigation over it with the "dossier" and Russia allegations, and all of it turned out to be absolutely nothing. As it turns out, not only did the left attack Trump in every way possible as dirtily as possible the moment he won the Republican primaries, but they continued it for years, right up to an impeachment where he was acquitted. On top of that, the left utilized it's resources to attack Sanders, and effectively prevent him from even the possibility of winning. And even though he would have lost regardless, that's just a piss poor way of dealing with one of their own.
The right pulled up everything in the books, from Clinton's Secretary of State "experience" to her legal antics to her time as first lady to her husband's on-record sexual history, and her absolute defense of it. They pointed at the weak border policies of the left, the trade policies that completely fuck the American worker, and a "healthcare bill" that effectively enslaves the American working class in order to pay for the healthcare of the elderly and jobless. They pointed at the support and excuses the left was making for terrorist organizations such as Antifa who were physically attacking the right and destroying property damage. They accurately pointed out the racist and sexist stance of the DNC, that demanding a certain representation from sex or race ignores the experience, qualifications, aka "content of character" that equality demands. They denounced divisive tactics that alienate ANY Americans, and instead tried to push for the idea that we needed the proposed policies so that EVERYONE could benefit, and that the lower to lower-middle working class would benefit the most, which would most help the poorest areas (trailer trash, ghetto, etc.).
As it stood, the number of times I've heard "they're racist, sexist, etc." regarding quite literally every republican in office everywhere is astounding. The number of times it's repeated by actual Democrats holding office, as well as the media that supports them is staggering. And it is almost never given with proof. It's a form of character assassination that's gone so far beyond the pale, it's finally starting to lose any weight. We're finally starting to get to the point where if somebody accuses somebody else of being an ist or an ism, they're simply ignored. It's taken as a sign of a losing argument. Which is sad, because actual violent racists are a problem that should be dealt with as harshly as possible.
We're talking about irrational, hyperbolic, divisive, and uncharacteristically desperate behavior on the side of the Dems that made it quite clear that they didn't give a fuck about anything but winning, and they didn't care who they hurt to make that happen. On the flipside, the "hurt" was mean words from Trump, who was simply being the same Trump he's been since the 80's and before. Add that to policies that require a huge amount of taxes against the American Worker but no consideration for them, no message of hope whatsoever, merely a, "You should vote for us, because THEY are Hitler!" and you'll start to understand better why Trump won.
But, if you're on the left, you only saw your side, and you may even believe in the policy standards of the DNC, in which case, rather than admitting that the rest of the nation prefers to remain a nation, and a nation that looks after it's own people, it's easier to say "racist, sexist, etc." than face the facts.