1. I support free enterprise and honest entrepreneurship and the innovation and prosperity that it makes possible, and so do Bernie Sanders and other progressives. We do not support completely unbridled, irresponsible, immoral and unregulated laisses faire, buyer-beware capitalism, like you and other hard right conservative apparently do. Nor do we support Communism or any other kind of authoritarian tyranny -- especially not the kind that Trump is obviously striving for!ajax18 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 3:48 amCapitalism and a booming economy that lifts all boats in the water, self reliance, lower taxes, less welfare spending, a sovereign nation that can democratically choose which immigrants come into the country and which do not, the appointment of conservative justices, pushing back the tide of communism led by people like Bernie Sanders, someone tough on crime who supports law enforcement and unwilling to bow the knee to terrorist groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter, someone who won't impose policies that result in 45% unemployment over the next 3 years due to a virus that 99.96% of people suffer no noticeable effect from. How many foreclosures, repossessed vehicles? How ridiculously high will taxes have to go to pay for this shut down and how much will that hurt the economy down the road. This shut down was a huge mistake.What, exactly, is even on the current Republican Party platform?
2. I support environmental and health regulations that protect our safety, health and quality of life. They save both individuals and society far more money in the long run than they cost, and can even provide entrepreneurial and employment opportunities, and incentives for individuals and businesses to research and develop ever better and more cost effective means of avoiding pollution, while cleaning up and recycling waste products. This is ultimately more truly conservative than exploiting, using up and wasting the earth's resources without regard to potentially adverse economic, health, ecological and environmental consequences.
3. I support Universal healthcare paid for by our taxes, because numerous studies (including even the conservative funded Koch Brothers Study) have shown that they not only provide better overall standards of health, but can cost both society and individuals half as much or less than private health insurance policies paid for with their premiums and copays. What good does it do to save money on taxes if the cost of insurance premiums and copays is greater that the potential tax savings, and one is still at risk of bankruptcy in case of any, even moderately serious medical emergency?
4. Believe it or not, Biden is much more strongly in favor of law and order than Trump is. Trump is in favor of law enforcement only as long as it doesn't inconvenience him. His strong defense of law enforcement, while at the same time boasting how he was openly flaunting the Hatch act by merely holding his RNC rally on the Whitehouse lawn, largely at taxpayer expense, was the very height of hypocrisy. Biden denounced in the strongest terms violence and vandalism by both liberal, BLM protesters and pro-Trump agitators and militia types, while Trump refuses to denounce such actions committed by his right wing supporters. Besides that Trump hardly makes any secret about offering pardons to any willing to break laws on his behalf, or even to wealthy, convicted felons who are potential donors. Law and order President my arse! (please excuse the profanity. some things are so outrageous that they move even me to profanity!).
5. As for replacing all liberal justices with conservative ones, this cannot be a good idea, because, as I have often maintained, neither conservatives nor liberals know all the answers, or have a monopoly on either truth or error. We need to have a reasonable balance of both, to listen open-mindedly to each others' ideas, and keep in check harmful extremes from both the liberal and conservative sides. We especially don't need radical partisan hacks from either side who refuse to seriously consider anything but their own party's selfish interests.
6. I support free or low cost tuition to public institutions of education up to and through college, because government investments in education and scientific research are virtually the only investments government can make that consistently show a much higher return to the national treasury than the cost of the investment. Yet appropriations for education and research are almost always among the first things they think to cut when deciding to save money. That's insane! The government coffers certainly don't benefit very much if people give up on finishing their education because they feel they can no longer afford it, or wind up so heavily saddled with educational debt after graduating that they face imminent default and/or bankruptcy, or suicidal desperation.
7. by the way, you can't honestly claim you are in favor of less welfare spending when you also support massive tax cuts, 80% of which go to the richest 1% of the population, while at the same time opposing raising the minimum wage of the poorest of us to more than a bare or even less than sufficient level. That really amounts to a massive, free welfare benefit to the very people who don't need such a benefit, while increasing the misery of those who are most desperately in need of it.
1.Biden has not said that "if he had his way we'd be shut down right now." He said he would consider it if and only if there was a new wave of the pandemic, and things did not continue to improve. Besides that, most other nations that followed the advice of pandemic experts to temporarily shut down to control it are doing much better than we are, and are well on the way towards restoring normalcy. The one European nation that refused to do that, Sweden, is the only nation in Europe that is doing proportionally even worse than we are in combating the pandemic.The stakes are very high. If I lived in a blue state I probably still wouldn't be allowed to go back to work. Biden has already said that if he had his way we'd be shut down right now. And for many on this board that shut down should last for the next 3 to 4 years. I don't want to live in a country where the law looks more favorably upon looting than keeping your business open and working. And that is exactly what the Democrat party wants. They need to be stopped.
2. The blue states (even New York and New Jersey) are now doing well in recovering from the pandemic (especially proportionally), while the worst hot spots of resurgence are in red states. California still has the most number of confirmed cases, but not proportionally, and 28 of its 58 counties are consistently falling in daily new cases, while only 16 currently show an increase. Both hospital and ICU patients are declining in number, and positivity rate has declined to 4.4%. Still, no one is saying we are out of the woods yet.
Nonsense! 93% of the BLM protests are peaceful. Even in Wisconsin there is more sympathy for that movement than hostility. Biden's approval rating has improved recently while Trump's has declined -- even in Wisconsin. In the communities where pro-Trump agitators are sent, the level of violence and mayhem only gets worse, not better, and this is obviously by design on Trump's part, because he still thinks more mayhem will help his reelection chances. And one of Trump's biggest and most consistent lies is that Biden favors defunding the police. Biden has, on the contrary, advocated increased funding for police.I want an America where my 16 year old niece can drive to an activity without fear she'll be surrounded by BLM blocking the road ready to tear her from her car and beat her. I don't want a situation like Wisconsin where the kids have to stay locked in the basement while Dad has to stand watch with a hunting rifle in the living room not knowing when BLM might bust through the door. You don't get that by electing people that suspend bail and free these terrorists immediately to return to the streets and work their destruction. If the hard left has their way, we won't have police and we won't have a gun to defend ourselves either. You basically will be forbidden to stop and bring to justice any criminal who happens to be black.
No. I definitely do not think voting for Biden is going to help move forward a more conservative agenda! That would be a reason to vote against him, not for him. If there is any fault I find with Biden, it is that he is not progressive enough!Do you think voting for Biden is going to help move forward a conservative agenda? This is why I can't understand how people like John Kasich can even call themselves Republicans. Obviously neither he nor Mitt Romney will ever be able to run for any position of siginficance as Republicans again. Real conservatives that disagree with Trump but are committed to conservative principles and furthering the conservative agenda are people like Ted Cruz.It appears that practically the only firm plank on that platform is: "Reelect Trump!"