Originally posted by: Nines
Biden dismantled a lot of Trump's policies as well. Incoming presidents from an alternate party from preceding admins routinely implement exec orders and agency changes to align with their campaign platforms and ideologies. In fact these policy reversals and changes are anticipated / expected. All of it collectively just magnifies the inability to find common ground. You're a big proponent of common ground, are ya? If so you diguise it well.
You misstate the concept. It's like asking if I'm a "proponent" of gravity. Common ground exists, and always will, and whether you or I are proponents of it matters not.
What does matter is whether our elected officials LIKE and WANT common ground. And it seems that they don't. And I'm sorry, but the way the Republicans speak of it is distinctly worse than the way Democrats do. That's of course because if Republicans even whisper of compromise, of anything but no-yield hard-line stances, their political careers are over. They receive 'retribution." Whereas, there are plenty of non-orthodox Democrats, and the party tolerates them.
Your attempted apologia for Trump doesn't pass the smell test. Yes, new Presidents implement policy reversals. Yes, Biden did that. But Trump went on a ridiculous little vengeful crusade to wipe out every single thing Obama had ever done. He didn't care, and didn't stop to consider, whether the policies he was wiping out were worth keeping in place. Other Presidents haven't tried to wipe out everything their predecessors did.
As two obvious examples, we have Trump's dishonorable reneging of the Iran treaty--fot no other reason than Obama had negotiated it--and his idiot asshole efforts to kill Obamacare, despite the fact that 70% of Americans approved of it.
So anyway, I'm a proponent of the obvious, that we have all sorts of common ground: public health, the environment, the economy, our relationships with other nations, civil rights and freedoms, the well-being of our children, etc. etc. But I'm sorry to have to I tell you that for the last 80 years, Republican policies and stances have favored corporate America at the expense of the aforesaid common ground. Our health care system is a mess, our care for the environment is deplorable (see: Trump withdrawing from the Paris accords), the economy is skewed towards enriching the already wealthy, and civil rights are being trampled upon. Those shortcomings are the deliberate result of Republican policies and ideology.
It didn't used to be that way. But Ronny Raygun started us on the chest-thumping AMURRICA shtick and demonized poor people as being unworthy, lazy, useless, etc. Only the rich deserved the bounty of this country. So lower taxes on the rich, let those "useless mouths" die, and let us become the plutocracy Republicans want.
That goal has been achieved. None of that stupid fucking common ground stuff. We have the masters (the 1%) and the masses. And only the former count for or deserve anything.
