• DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    Republicans in 1986 were calling for massive deregulation, strong shrinking of the fed givernment,strict ban of abortion, return of school prayer, escalation of war on drugs, massive peacetime military buildup, funding anti communist insurgency around the world

    And Democrats delivered all of that, or helped at a minimum.

    Massive Deregulation?

    Clinton, Obama, and Biden.

    Shrinking the Federal Govt? How do you think Slick Willy balanced the budget? What do you think he meant when he said we’d “end welfare as we know it”?

    Strict ban on Abortion?

    The GOP couldn’t have done it without (1) Obama going back on his campaign promise to codify Roe v Wade (2) RBG’s refusal to step down during Obama’s term (3) Dems rolling over when McConnell stole a SCOTUS seat (4) Hillary and the DNC committing political malpractice and blowing what should have been a lay-up in 2016.

    School Prayer?

    Ok, you got a point for this one. But you’ll notice even now, when the rules are made up and court precedents don’t matter, the only places they’re doing this are the deepest of deep red states. Why do you suppose that is?

    Escalation of the War on Drugs

    I shouldn’t need to say anything other than “Biden’s 1994 crime bill”. But I will also point out that increasing the funding for the War on Drugs has been fairly bipartisan for the last forty years, but Clinton and Obama both massively increased it, so I’m pretty sure if I bothered to find the numbers that Dems have added more funding than the GOP in that time.

    Massive Peacetime Military buildup

    Again, completely bipartisan. And Harris promised “the most lethal military on Earth”, which doesn’t exactly sound like a call to slow that down, does it?

    Funding anti communist insurgency

    Lol. Lmao, even. Tell me you’re not gonna pretend the Dems aren’t doing the exact same thing, are you? Are you really? Shame, up to this point I was taking you seriously.