2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A vote for republicans is a vote to lose ones rights [View all]1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)your "democratic friends" were telling you that in the 1960's ... maybe your "communist socialist" friends, but not your Democratic friends.
Yes, I know Nixon created the EPA and signed environmental laws ... I also know that Lincoln freed the slaves, Reagan was a Union Boss and GWB supported comprehensive immigration reform that started with amnesty and had a clear (relatively quick) path to citizenship. {Note to 1950 ... that tactic is kind of an identity/agenda tell ... I've seen/heard it a lot. }
I, also, know that the majority of americans poll favorably on progressive solutions; yet "progressives", for all their issue support, rarely survive primaries (in most parts of the country) ... when they run at all! {I know ... I know ... the Democratic Power Establishment (of the 1%) won't let progressives run! }
But thanks for the lecture ... Now if you'd be so kind as to answer my questions ... do you think this situation will get better or worst with a republican House and Senate? Do you think any of the things that President Obama accomplished would have occurred with a republican Senate? Do you think your life (and the lives of the people you care about will be better or worse with republicans in control?