Political rants

Decided to make this thread in order to stop bombarding the "News" thread with politics. So use this thread to talk about all things politics. Gripes, complaints, double standards, ways to improve anything

dems are cucks they alienate their progressive base to pander to republicans, and republicans fucking hate them "we need a strong republican party uwu" nancy fucking pelosy theyr brain dead and self destructive good politics, shitty rhetoric https://i.imgur.com/ALd7BcM.png

its been divided since the civil war my guy except the southern plan succeeded in capturing the southern states so the territories of the conflict have switched

its more nuanced than pro and anti slavery now even back then it was 'states rights vs federal rights', that's the core of it back then it was states rights to own slaves, and now its shit like welfare, abortion, gun laws, universal healthcare, etc but at the core its still federal vs states rights dems being for feds (like lincoln was) and reps being for states another difference with dems and repubs is also about people vs big business dems are the party for people and their welfare, and repubs are the party of big business now dems and repubs switched bases during, what, the 50? 40? but repubs have always been pro big business WHICH back then wasn't a bad thing, because we want big businesses back then so we have more jobs, so og reoublicans i would support but now these mega conglomerates don't need the welfare theyr receiving republicans were the party of the past

the biggest lie on the republican party is that theyr fiscally responsible if youv ever looked at the deficit when a republican is in charge it sky rockets cause guess whos paying for those tax cuts for the wealthy? the poor and our national debt they subsidize it through that trumps tax plan this year was going to raise taxes for people making less than 70k a year RAISE TAXES FOR THEM, because that's how you subsidzie lowering taxes for the rich, that money has to come from somewhere anyways, be thankful biden will be dismantling many aspects of trumps tax policy, raising taxes for people making 400k (as they should be....)