• Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    If it’s a straight line from Nixon to Trump as you say, then why claim Republicans are environmentalists with Nixon as your example?

    He said straight line THROUGH Nixon and Trump, not straight line TO Nixon and Trump.

    The former implies distinct and self-evident political differences, whereas the latter implies political evolution from one into the other where both politicians have a common set of political similarities.

    I can’t help but think at this point that we’re reaching comprehension issues…

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      I can’t help but think at this point that we’re reaching comprehension issues…

      There is a long list of envitroment, social and political laws that Democrats have championed and have happened. BEACHES act, expanding Pacific protected waters, protecting Artic. In social we have gay marriage now. Democrats did NOT do nothing while Republicans moved things to the right. If that were true there would be no gay marriage. If Hillary had been elected the Supreme Court wouldn’t be right wing and Roe v Wade wouldn’t have been neutered.

      The Ratchet meme is “both sides bad”.

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        Both sides are bad. And by that I mean Democrats never represent the Left while routinely allowing the Right to exert their selfishness and greed. They are controlled opposition to frame American politics as a binary, when in reality an entire half of the political spectrum could be represented to widespread approval

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          20 hours ago

          American politics are simple. You vote in the primary for the person that represents you. You vote in the general for the party that represents you. Americans chose Trump through voting or abstaining. They are responsible. No one else.

          Leftists gave Trump the win in 2016 because Hillary wasn’t Bernie. That handed the Supreme Court to the Right Wing. Then leftists handed Trump the White House in 2024 because Harris wasn’t pro Palestinian enough. It’s face eating leopard time. But my conspiracy is leftist agitators online are right wing shills to get moderates to not vote. Bannon even said he did it.