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Originally Posted by mpholland
In other words, they did it worse instead of they did it first? So two wrongs don't make a right but a small wrong and a great one do?
I fail to see your issue with reality distortions. The majority of discussions on this site are based on reality distortions. Some opinion is fact, many facts are opinions. Most facts are suspect due to context of source. I am still a right leaning centrist. There are good democrats and good republicans. If either party were completely bad they wouldn't be able to get half the nation to vote for them. At some point there will be a third party that grabs the centrist vote. Since unaffiliated is the biggest "party" in the country they wouldn't need a whole lot of votes from the left or right. If the democrats are so pro common man why don't they institute a comparable tax structure to pre-Reagan times and make the rich pay for the last couple wars that they created. The biggest reality distortion out there is that the countries problems are right vs. left. The problem is rich vs poor. This facade that the left is for the common man and the right is for the rich is a joke. The rich on both sides are who is in power and they don't give a shit about the common man unless it is given to let them sling it at each other. The income disparity issue is the biggest problem this nation has and the democrats taking from the ever shrinking middle class to give to the poor is exacerbating the problem just as much as the right and their tax cuts for the rich.
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I am certainly all for a pre-Reagan progressive tax structure. indeed, I'm for a pre-Kennedy progressive tax structure. But why do you say the Democrats take from the ever-shrinking middle-class? I know of no tax increases targeting the middle, though I know of plenty of conservative proposals for same (eg, the now-forgotten 'flat tax' idea). I also think the 'to give to the poor' part is anti-poor resentment at work, given that much more goes to the military-industrial feeding trough, and to out-and-out corporate welfare.
You also should recognize that getting anything progressive through the current congress is close to impossible. So blaming the Democrats for not doing so now isn't just fair. You can make a case for the first part of the Obama administration though. The problem was that Obama was smart enough to know there might be a be reactionary movement in response to his presidency, and he walked on eggs trying not to provoke it. Didn't work.