Quote (thesnipa @ 12 Aug 2021 22:15)
except that when given a potus with a mandate, to follow your "full control" metric, even though it's rare, they dont really push for "scary toxic PC gone wild" policies.
their messaging panders to their culturally diverse intersectional base, their policy is always a watered down approach to fairly centrist legislation.
the reaction is always so silly, Obama makes a silly choice to ban 1 single type of "armor piercing" ammunition and ar platform rifle sales go through the roof because the boogeyman is coming.... never came.
the simple truth is that any competent targeted criticism of the democrats policy, of which there is alot, does brush aside their PC messaging. unless one against CJ reform entirely, in which case they're just silly.
the closest we can get is to claim the PC attitude drives their policy against immigration reform, which in itself is an overhyped issue. im more concerned with cartels than immigrants, as we all should be.
You're deriving a lot of certainty in your assessment from a very small sample size. During the 90s, the Democrats had moved far to the right on economic policy, that was a totally different era and political environment. And a different Democratic party.
Since then, they had something resembling to full control for only 2 years. And even when looking at just the time since 2010, their stance on a lot of social, cultural and economic issues has zoomed to the left, there was a creeping political realignment (the "education gap" replacing the "income gap" as the main dividing line between the parties), the face of their base has changed drastically, as has the "power center" of the party. It is a huge stretch to infer from Obama using his strong mandate to push a watered down, moderate bill ten years ago that Democrats today would only push watered down, centrist legislation if given the chance.
On top of all of that, the bills proposed and/or already passed by the Biden administration during just its first 8 months contain government spending in excess of $5 trillion and would represent the largest expansion of statist policies since Johnson's Great Society. Not exactly what I would consider "watered down, moderate legislation".
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 12 2021 03:38pm