At 3/27/22 05:20 PM, DioShiba wrote:
At 3/27/22 05:01 PM, EdyKel wrote:
At 3/25/22 11:04 PM, DioShiba wrote:
At 3/25/22 10:47 PM, EdyKel wrote:
Soo....Republicans can't really criticize Biden's pick, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, so some of them are going after the absurd to attack her, if only to get media attention, by implying she is weak on crime and pedophilism (dog whistling to QAnon), heavily implying she might support the cancel culture against the right (good for book sales) or arguing they need to treat her like the Dems treated Kavanaugh (pettiness for the win). It's been a busy confirmation hearing over the US Supreme Court nominee this week, but nothing very surprising, and Judge Jackson is expected to get conformed, if only by Democrat support alone.
Meanwhile, US Justice. Clarence Thomas, who was nominated by president George H. Bush, was admitted to the hospital this week for some unspecific infection. A few days later it came out that his wife, Ginna Thomas, was urging Republicans, and Trump's then-White House chief, Mark Meadows, to overturn the 2020 election. Ginna Thomas is a conservative activist, who has a history of influencing the judicial selection in the country to tilt right, or to far -right. She was even was part of the Tea Party Movement, and getting paid by them. Many Democrats want Clarence Thomas to either retire, or at the very least, recluse himself from any matter that comes to the Supreme court in regards to Jan 6th.
To be honest, this is what I don’t really get about conservative politicians today because they lean father and farther to the right and they practically give the left more reasons to turn to ideologies past socialism.
Ginna Thomas from the sounds of it seems like she’s in it for herself more than she is for the common person, but that’s only based on what you just posted without me looking too deep into it. Maybe that’s just an observation on my part but at the same time it wouldn’t surprise me if that is the case.
It is a shame that the GOP doesn’t distance itself from those kind of people. I want to feel like I can be a bit more conservative on that end but it’s very difficult when the social values aren’t there for the sake of financial values.
I remember in the 90's, with the rise of conservative news networks and political commentators, that the Republican party was heavily into promoting conservative puritanism, with many in the media commenting on the extinction of the moderate Republican in it. It was just a matter of time where someone like Trump would take advantage of it to take control of the party, even, ironically, he wasn't a true conservative.
It would be nice to support the Republican party again, but it's hard to do that when they have no real political platform anymore other than be opposed to everything the Democrats do, while canceling out other Republicans who don't ass lick Trump - or can look the other way on egregious cases of bad behavior and corruption from within their ranks.
Well that's just it.
Its like all of the sudden when the conservatives decided to appeal to one demographic and take the extreme end of things it became harder to support them. Now here we are in the 2020's and they still don't want to distance themselves from Trump and get someone more favorable.
I don't even agree with conservatives on many social issues, but they do know something about economics that I don't think the democrats fully grasp either.
It's being stuck between a hard place and a rock at this point if you juxtapose the current GOP with the current Democrats and thats given how I feel about Biden and Kamila not exactly being too sound in how they talk on current issues, either.
Let me put it this way, I'm not happy with those on the far left, but I am even less happy with the right, on the current culture war. While there are problems in our current culture, which need to be addressed, I view most of it as a distraction in politics, over something that's been going on for centuries in our country, cultural change. And this seems to be all that the current right can focouse on.
But, I'm going to disagree on Conservatives knowing anything about economics. Both sides know just as much as the other over it, and it's mostly centered on different priorities over it. And in recent times, the Conservatives traditional economic platform (aka Reaganomics, aka Voodo Economics, aka Neo Conservatism, aka Trickle Down economics) which was all about free market ideology of low taxation, low business regulation, and wartime govermnet spending, which benefited the few over the many, have become pretty unpopular these days in the conservative base. And they know that, which is why they are focusing on distracting people with their culture war.
Personally, I believe in a case by case approach on things, instead of some caged political ideology, where you are blindly faithful to it even when it starts to creates more problems than it fixes when it goes into practice, because it was exploited by the few who usually are the one's who preach about it.
I live in California. It's a blue state, and is the 5th largest economy in the world, with the largest population of the 50 states. But it's also one of the largest agriculture states, with a large conservative base. I consider myself as a fiscal conservative, who wants to see some taxes cut here, along with more oversight over spending and over the various state departments - because I think taxes are currently too high, and there is a lot of waste. I also don't like some of the social policies put in to place on our schools by Democrats.This makes me tilt to the right, and would like to see more Republicans in office here to balance out the one sided power here. But many Republican politicians make it hard for me to vote for them, when they don't really have a detailed plan, other than going hard right, with empty far right talking points - none that is productive.
I would like to see both parties work with each other, for common ground solutions, instead of playing partisan games. A recent issue is over gas prices. Democrats want to give out a 400 gas rebates, while Republicans want to cut gas taxes. Both solutions are problematic, limited in scope, and are drawn by partisan lines to differentiate one party from the other. I would like to see both parties find a better solution, even it's a combination of both ideas.
