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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: bentway who wrote (332849)3/30/2017 1:17:01 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 541824
 
Failing to point out the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is just another case of false equivalency. All you have to do is look at the votes in the Congress, time after time, and then apply a basic statistical analysis to it, to see the huge difference and that the votes are not random. Just look at the lifting the internet privacy. That was approved along strict party lines. Guess who voted each way-lol?

Take Obamacare: every single Democrat voted for it and every Republican voted against it. Take Ryan's bill, most Republicans voted for it, few voted against it and all the Democrats voted against it. Or take the Supreme Court decisions: 5/4,5/4,5/4.

Or take a hypothetical. If the Congress had a bill to repeal citizens United, every single Republican would vote against it and every single Democrat would vote for it i.e. to repeal it.

We need to pay attention to this stark statistical reality that we are dealing with that under certain circumstances we are a divided country that can never come together in a compromise.

The only way we can come together is for conservatives to change into liberals. There is no viable conservative philosophy. The reason for this is because the Democrats embrace science and Republicans do not.

It is impossible to compromise on whether the earth is flat or round. Or whether global warming is real or not.

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Far too many (D)'s are also wholly owned subsidiaries of this or that special interest. Every time one gets caught, it just adds fuel to the assertion that the parties are the same. Posner didn't single out Republicans.
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