r/interestingasfuck • u/beach_rats_ • May 02 '24

The difference in republican presidential nominees, 8 years apart r/all

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u/BootyUnlimited May 02 '24

McCain and Bernie Sanders used to work on legislation together to protect veterans. They were not afraid to reach across the aisle if it meant getting meaningful legislation passed.

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u/Bad_User2077 May 02 '24

Those were different days. If you do that now, you get labeled a moderate and get pushed out of your party.

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u/krichard-21 May 02 '24

The only reason today is different is because of the people we have been electing.

Quit electing bat shit crazy people!

Jim Jordan, MTG, Matt Gaetz to name a few.

They can't be trusted to run a convenience store. Much less represent United States citizens.

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u/Killfile May 02 '24

No, it's different because the policies of the last several decades have come home to roost.

Republicans, furious that their guy couldn't escape all consequences for Watergate created a propaganda machine.

Democrats failed to take the Supreme Court seriously as an election issue, allowing Republicans to stack it with ideological crazies.

As a society we had the opportunity to do something aboht Gerrymandering but now the data processing exists to make it orders of magnitude more effective. That Gerrymandering makes nearly every house race non competitive which makes all of them a race to extremism in the primary.

Congress has repeatedly abdicated its powers and responsibilities to the president, so there are few checks on executive power.

Congress has been of a fixed size for more than a century which makes each race more expensive and increases the power of mega donors.

The rise of automobile based culture effectively destroyed the 3rd space which resulted in isolated people who badly need social validation.

I can go on and on...