| ▲ | wat10000 2 hours ago |
| How many years since Reagan have Democrats held both chambers of Congress and the White House? It’s a few. And yet we’re still here. |
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| ▲ | pjmorris 2 hours ago | parent [-] |
| That's because all the Democrats are Republicans. "”The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican,” - Barack Obama [0] [0] https://thehill.com/policy/finance/137156-obama-says-hed-be-... |
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| ▲ | j_w 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is not a statement of Republicans and Democrats being the same, but a statement of Republicans going off the deep end in during and after Reagan. Obama was a very moderate Democrat for his time. If you go back in time a moderate Democrat and Republican were similar because the "center" was more reasonable. Now the "center" is just people that are ashamed that they vote Republican. | |
| ▲ | wat10000 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | If we accept that, then "government" and "Republicans" would be pretty much synonymous, so my original point stands. (Not that I accept it, but even if I did.) |
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