Althalucian
All Star
No he started with repeal Obamacare. Eventually he got to repeal and replace. He did say he wouldn't touch social security but that shouldn't be on the table in the first place.
People didn't vote for a actual Dem platform though.
The people want cake,
and you trying to give them broccoli Joe.
Let them eat cake.
That's right.
TBH, they can win if done right. Most things Americans want are Progressive. I'm a Centre-Leftist (left on economics) and most people just want fair pay and decent healthcare coverage. Studies have been done on this. I'm still disgusted that Flint hasn't received its help. Also, I'm tired of our foreign policy. We have innocent people and our troops dying.
That's the big problem, brehs - most Americans DO essentially want some more progressive solutions (and they don't quite know it, either), but Americans of all stripes but especially repubs/conservatives can't get over "socialism aka evil, evil communism." This comes from irrational and historical propaganda about other political systems. The truth is we are a strong mix of capitalism and some socialist-like solutions already, but we tend far more towards capitalism. It's fine to be a mostly capitalistic society, but I think Americans would like just a bit more balance or just more effective social programs, but we just can't get past the effects of the propaganda.
Now that conservatism has taken root in the republican party (the Buckley conservatism revolution in the mid 1900s) we'll always have trouble adopting anything that uses federal money to help the people. Quite frankly, we might never get social programs because you have people convinced on a deep level that single payer or whatever government-funded program is equivalent to the holocaust or evil on Earth. What can you do with that level of emotion?
What is hilarious to me is that Obama was both very liberal and very conservative on a number of issues. That made him essentially a centrist. Progressives saw that as evil, but conservatives also saw that as evil. You guys ever go to a conservative subreddit or conservative websites? They HATE their own "moderate" republicans, or republicans who don't 100% tow the line they've been told is conservative or good. Sound familiar?
We either need to nationally recognize that centrists are fine or we're going to continue to suffer the tantrums of extremists who will convince moderates that centrists are evil.