I agree wholeheartedly! It’s that saying that if people wanted a Republican, why would they vote for a Republican light? Normal people recoil at the thought of immigrants in cages or drowning in a Texas river. So why would your argument be: “We can do enforcement better”? And why would you say that, to strengthen Social Security, you have to whittle away at it?
(By the way, too few Democrats and even fewer media “pundits” even understand 1) The trust fund was enacted in the early 1980s to account for the Baby Boomer bump; 2) The payroll tax was intended to be on 90% of your wages, but the growing income/wage disparity means that it’s nowhere near that—and the simple fix is to raise the ceiling; and 3) Social Security will never go absolutely broke unless there’s absolutely no one working and paying into it.)
P.S. Oliver, I absolutely love the Kal-El pix. They always boost my day.
Shorter version: "Don't think of an elephant." If the Democrats listened to George Lakoff the way the Republicans listened to Frank Luntz, we'd be living in a much happier, safer, and more prosperous country right now!
Can I borrow Kal-El for about a month, so I can find out who or what keeps pooping on my lawn? The other thing I hate about this, is that people will polarize each other or their out group as being EVIL. The world is more complex than polarization.
…how pathetic democrats are that after a NAZIS coup, which still in full swing, didn’t do shit to change ANYTHING, never even thought to produce a viable new progressive candidate for WH, all they do is STUPIDLY comparing biden’s and trump’s character, while NAZIS taking our country state by state and school district by school district without resistance and democrats are waiting for the election day HOPING for a “blue wave”, two party system is one step to autocracy
…if country allows a dictator to become a dictator after he said he will be a dictator, then a country deserves a dictator
I agree wholeheartedly! It’s that saying that if people wanted a Republican, why would they vote for a Republican light? Normal people recoil at the thought of immigrants in cages or drowning in a Texas river. So why would your argument be: “We can do enforcement better”? And why would you say that, to strengthen Social Security, you have to whittle away at it?
(By the way, too few Democrats and even fewer media “pundits” even understand 1) The trust fund was enacted in the early 1980s to account for the Baby Boomer bump; 2) The payroll tax was intended to be on 90% of your wages, but the growing income/wage disparity means that it’s nowhere near that—and the simple fix is to raise the ceiling; and 3) Social Security will never go absolutely broke unless there’s absolutely no one working and paying into it.)
P.S. Oliver, I absolutely love the Kal-El pix. They always boost my day.
I couldn't agree more. The Democrats messaging sucks big time and you're right, it just cements the right's lies in their base's minds.
“the right is going to make the same attacks no matter what you say and do”
Of course they are. We’ve seen this constantly over the last four decades.
And yet Democratic leaders continue to believe somehow, maybe, if we don’t push back to hard, then Republicans will stop being mean to us.
Democrats keep punching themselves in the face in hopes Republicans will stop laughing at them.
Shorter version: "Don't think of an elephant." If the Democrats listened to George Lakoff the way the Republicans listened to Frank Luntz, we'd be living in a much happier, safer, and more prosperous country right now!
Can I borrow Kal-El for about a month, so I can find out who or what keeps pooping on my lawn? The other thing I hate about this, is that people will polarize each other or their out group as being EVIL. The world is more complex than polarization.
…how pathetic democrats are that after a NAZIS coup, which still in full swing, didn’t do shit to change ANYTHING, never even thought to produce a viable new progressive candidate for WH, all they do is STUPIDLY comparing biden’s and trump’s character, while NAZIS taking our country state by state and school district by school district without resistance and democrats are waiting for the election day HOPING for a “blue wave”, two party system is one step to autocracy
…if country allows a dictator to become a dictator after he said he will be a dictator, then a country deserves a dictator
Any hate coming from the left?