elonmuskrockefeller wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 7:34 pm
Brooklyn wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 12:01 pm
Right wingers in Congress reduce benefits for veterans and refuse to create legislation that provides universal health care for them and for others. Meanwhile real patriots thank them through their progressive actions and legislation.
'Progressive legislation' like those laws that have resulted in multiple generations of imprisoned dads, intractable governmental dependency, urban blight, third world educational standards, soaring crime, uncontained inflation, and the wholesale destruction of the nuclear family?
I dunno, man. That just doesn't sound very patriotic to me.
"imprisoned dads"
Mafiosis? Other organized crime figures? Crooked cops? Those in jail would have been better served had they gotten government assistance rather than to pursue their chosen career paths.
"intractable government dependency"
I agree that farmers, corporations, and corporate capitalists are too dependent on government. Strangely, they are the first ones to proclaim themselves to be ever so independent.
"third world education standards"
That's only true in the Republican South.
"soaring crime"
Yeah like what those cops did to stir up crime in the summer of 2020 where they torched their own compound and pretended it was an unarmed crowd that did it. Then there's the drug dealing cops in Peter Maas's book "Serpico" and similar books.
"uncontained inflation"
It's far worse overseas. Nothing we can do about it except to end all foreign tax shelters and to bring back all that capital that has been sent overseas. But your fellow Republicans refuse to do so and then they blame the Democrats for the mess your Republicans create.
"wholesale destruction of the nuclear family"
The Republican south has more divorce and illegitimate births than does the north.
In fact all of the above is more true for the repukeblicon south. Nothing patriotic about them at it. Yessireee.