a1swdeveloper
2 min readMay 24, 2023

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Excuse me, your claims include the usual dishonest manipulative false equivalency of conservative disinformation. Republicans have a history of fighting the class war for the wealthy. The Democrats have pretty consistently fought for the working and middle classes.

It is true that the Republicans haven't offered any policies to benefit ordinary Americans in 40 years. Just tax cuts for the wealthy to drive up the National Debt and more and more and more guns.

That's a truth that hurts, because it's true. They haven't legislated and they try to dominate through the courts because no one likes their policies. They don't always even have a known platform but instead just say "vote for us and we will fix everything those despicable socialist Democrats are doing to destroy this country". They love to claim that "Democrats hate America". Worse still, they break things just so they can claim the Democrats have failed and only they can fix them. They damage America to damage Democrats politically.

Are you familiar with the term "Neo-Liberalism"? It's not about what you usually think of the term "Liberal". It refers to how business is treated and was largely started by Reagan. It means Liberalism towards business or perhaps "anything goes Capitalism". It was jobs going overseas. It was Share holder interests over everything else. It was profits over everything else. It was nations and society serving business instead of business serving society and nations. It's why there is so much wealth inequality and why the world is awash in debt. All the profits of production gains of five decades of growth went to the owners and everyone else lost out. Well, Biden's State of the Union Speech said that was going to change, from Corporate Capitalism we had after Reagan to Democratic Capitalism we had before that from the time of President Eisenhower. Business would serve the nation again like it did after President Eisenhower, the most prosperous time in America's history.

So what have Democrats done for America?

Social Security, Medicare, civil rights, minimum wage, 5-day work week, interstate highways, defeated the Nazis, balanced the budget (temporarily; thanks, W), killed bin Laden, clean air, clean water.

• Healthcare Reform, Food Safety

• New Deal, Great Society, Peace Corp, Vista, Job Corp

• Civil Rights, Women’s Right to Vote, Equal Rights, The Voting Rights Act, Equal Pay Act, Motor Voter

• Consumer Protection, FDIC, Banking and Wall Street Regulations, SEC, Federal Reserve System, Anti-trust Legislation

• Funding for Science, Medical and Engineering Research, Space Exploration, NSF, NIH

• Support for Public Education, Head Start, School Lunch, and Breakfast Programs

• NLRB, 8 hr. Work Day/40 hr., Overtime, Unemployment

• Protection for the Environment, Increased Numbers and Support of National Parks and Wilderness Areas, Endangered Species Act, FEMA

• Veterans’ Benefits, GI Bill

• UN, NATO, Marshall Plan

• Vehicles Safety Requirements, Reduced Emissions, and Fuel Economy Standards (CAFE)

• TVA, Federal Loan Program, PBS, NPR, the Internet, Rural Internet

• Economic Growth (Democratic Presidents: Roosevelt through Biden)

Now The Republicans have done some good including passing the EPA and legalizing abortion, but currently those are some of their primary targets to end.

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a1swdeveloper
a1swdeveloper

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I work on long term human survival as humans try to adapt to a new ecology after we left the tribal ecology for the farms and cities of civilization

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