@Zaku Separation of church and state is part of the Constitution. That isn’t a Dem policy, it’s law.
Yes, they are all for Tolerance, equal rights, and non-discrimination. they are also for men in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms and for helping elementary school kids decide they need to transition. Most Americans are not supporting this.
Abortion Rights are a thing for the states to decide, so it really has no bearing in the national elections other than word salad.
Yes, they are all for NATO and the ware in Ukraine as well as the war in the ME. Most Americans aren’t that enthused about getting involved in wars and spending billions of dollars to support those wars.
Negotiating solutions at the southern border. What is there to negotiate? Americans are fed up with the flood of illegals entering this country. They are tired of the crime they have brought and the treatment they are getting at the expense of Americans. The negotiation you are referring to is the crisis they created that has pissed everyone off. They want to negotiate to make it legal to let them just pour across the border. Again, most Americans are not on board with that policy.
Qualified, non-partisan SCOTUS appointees. Great. Where are you going to find them? There isn’t a single non-partisan justice to be had. Fortunately, the justices often rule for or against things in ways that most people don’t expect. Face it, the left would be happy if they had a bench full of left-wing activists. They would call that non-partisan.
Action against Climate Change. That started off as a great scare tactic, but people have gotten wise to it now. Climate Change might be real, it might not, it might be imminent and it might be something that might happen centuries from now. But here’s the rub: if the USA went entirely emissions free today, it wouldn’t put a dent in global climate change. We are not the big contributor. That would be China and India, neither of which anyone wants to hold accountable for change. And as Kamala (or whomever) jets around the country to talk for an hour here and an hour there, she (or whomever) can tell us all about how concerned they are with carbon emissions.
Environmental protections. Yes. But not radicalized. The “clean water” program the EPA started under Obama was ridiculous. It was governmental overreach to the nth degree. There are places now that make it illegal to even own a rain barrel to use the water for your garden. This sort of thing is moronic and designed to do nothing but give the government more power over the people. Besides, much of the environmental policies that came out in the past 20 years have all been from bureaucrats. They are given the power of law, but they are coming from the Executive Branch.
Sustainable Energy is great…provided it is done smartly. Setting goals and then seeing if we can figure out some way to meet them is foolishness. Want to sink some money into research to make wind turbines more efficient? Great. Want to find ways to make solar panels more efficient with a longer life span? Cool. But that’s not what the Dems have shown they want. Besides, many of these “sustainable energy” efforts end up polluting the world far worse and depleting natural resources far worse than fossil fuels.
Consumer protections and business regulations are both job killers. It puts the power for production, distribution and even consumption into the hands of the government which is Socialism. Hitler had that. But hey, if you say the Dems want it….
Making it easy for all Americans to vote. How about making it so that all Americans can vote and nobody else can? How about making sure that the person voting is who they say they are? How about making sure the counting of the ballots is secure? I (and many other Americans) would rather have secure elections that don’t have shadows of doubt all over them than to just have a bunch of ballots coming in and calling it good.
Affordable health care. We can agree on this. But we don’t agree on the way it is done. When you talk to doctors, nurses, admins, etc in the medical field, they are disgusted with how things are done. Here’s a novel idea: get a random group of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical admins, and middle class people, put them into a room together and let’s first identify where the problems are and then offer solutions that might fix the problems? I say random and mean random. If it is putting everyone’s name into a hat and pulling 3 names from each discipline/function then do it. Don’t ask for volunteers, don’t appoint people, don’t have any government people involved at all. Once the solutions are considered then send it to the government with the order that they can’t change the solutions. If they want to change the solutions, they need to get back together with the group to explain why it needs to be changed.
Infrastructure improvement bills are great. Trim all the pork out of the way and then put it through. AAahhh….that is the rub. Every time a bill is put through, there is a ton of pork and other spending tagged on. Look at the much vaunted border security bill Biden was whining about not getting passed. It was looking for a ton of money to be spent. The majority of it was for Ukraine and Israel. A very minor part was for the border and all that did was legalize illegal entry for the first 2 million people every year. It also spent a ton more money on processing them into the country where they can ignore any further actions for their amnesty claims. It did nothing about actually securing the border.
Basic Gun Laws. We have them. You can’t just go buy a gun. You have to get background checks prior to getting approval for the purchase. But here’s an interesting side note: one of the things that will preclude you from being able to legally buy a gun is if you are a convicted felon. The Dems are working diligently to not prosecute criminals. They are turning them back out on the streets. They are reducing the level of what is considered a felony. They are reducing police forces to make it harder to arrest criminals. So if you don’t arrest them or if you reduce the charges, drop the charges, opt to not prosecute, etc you are hiding things that will show up on a gun purchase background check. Are you now all for getting tough on crime?
So now you know why many people don’t like the Dem policies. Yes, they are great talking points with names that sound familiar, but they are garbage policies. They want to spend money without expecting results and, in some cases, hoping they don’t get results. I honestly believe they just want to give money to cronies that can claim it in some of these many fields.
