Political Views vs. Personality Contests

[TitoFan]

Ok @Kirkland Laing

So far from what I gather your leanings are:

Immigration - D
Healthcare - R
Taxation - D
2nd Amendment - D
Environment - R


Just my impressions after reading through some of your stuff.

[Kirkland Laing]

Ok @Kirkland Laing

So far from what I gather your leanings are:

Immigration - D
Healthcare - R
Taxation - D
2nd Amendment - D
Environment - R


Just my impressions after reading through some of your stuff.

The Democrats have fucked up on immigration. Go back even just as far as Obama's election platform and the language on immigration is exactly the same as the GOP. But they moved to the left from 2012 onwards and that gave Trump a huge opportunity. So I'm 2008-12 and before era Democratic on immigration. Use the same language as the GOP and take the issue off the table as much as is possible.

Not Republican on healthcare. The GOP seem to be entirely against any government provision of healthcare. They were dead against Medicare until it became so popular they couldn't not support it but a huge chunk of the right want to basically defund it even now. The current system is as good as it's going to get for decades to come and that's that. I would at least like to keep the current system and protect it from the GOP.

Not Republican on the environment either. The GOP used to be bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industry. Now that the fossil fuel industry is investing untold billions in clean energy they're just anti clean energy just to own the libs and create an issue that has popular support on their side. More to come on this later when I do energy.