CNBC people complain about living in a Republican Paradise

[Turbineguy]

The delays and lines at airports are too much. Infrastructure needs updating. WWII era (really?) radar systems can't handle enough planes.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Every dilapidated piece of infrastructure should be named after this guy

[rurallib]

2. this should be an OP unto itself

very, very true statement!

[belzabubba333]

3. government , run by republicans, is the problem

my hate and disgust for this excrement has no boundries

[olddots]

9. if you look up dingleberry

It says see Ronny

[world wide wally]

13. Actually, the nine most frIghtening words in the English language are...

I'm from a corporation and I'm here to help.

[Johonny]

4. Republicans policies have lead the way for 40 years- ever meet one Republican happy about it?

They all seem like miserable fool blaming the non-existent liberal boogey man for their self created problems. F em

[yeoman6987]

5. And yet they still vote them in and worse

When Democratic politicians are in office they keep the same policies voters hate. No winning for us.

[Johonny]

6. It's hard to change policy when Congress is filled with the opposite party

There was change in the 2 years Obama had a democratic congress and Clinton had a democratic congress. It might not have been as sweeping as the huge time Republicans have swept things in, and obstructed, but most good ideas of the past 40 years occurred in those times. But yes a lot of the worse ideas came when Republican congress convinced Democratic presidents to try new reforms... We need 40 years of a liberal majority.

[Jackpine Radical]

14. It's hard to elect a Democratic Congress when you run promising big changes,

deliver small changes, and advertise even these small successes so poorly that the other side can continue to make a bête noir of them and flagellate you with your own good deeds. Even when you're in the minority, don't back off because of the 60% rule. Attack anyway, make a big story out of Republican obstructionism. Let the voters see why they aren't getting relief.


But all of this depends on your actually committing to a liberal platform & then making good on delivering it or at least go down fighting for it in ways that make it clear that you're serious about it.

[Johonny]

15. Change doesn't happen in 2 year segments

You certainly won't get politicians willing to go for the liberal brass ring when voters show their asses the door for doing the small steps they did. Its hardly a ringing endorsement. It also doesn't help when they don't show up at the polls. People complain about Democrats campaigning for the middle and leaning conservative vote, but hell those people show up. If the vast liberal under class flocked to the polls every year they'd pander to them. They'd have to. When they don't come, they don't even try. It is the dull circle of political bland.

Part of the problem is the Democratic party isn't traditionally "liberal". It's always been a big tent party. The thing is there used to be a camp in the Republican tent for liberals too. Republicans used to want clean water, clean air, infrastructure... To me there is the party of governance (Democrats) and the party of grifters. I doubt the liberalism will ever win out when the Republican party is so amazingly broken. It is probably a fail to think a political attitude can ever win out when 40-60% of the system isn't working at all for governance. Even if liberals did great they are likely left with a slim majority if some kind of common sense fails to exist in the other party. Its been 40 years of the other party sinking into grifting mass of reactionary blah.

[Kingofalldems]

7. Looks like sarcasm to me.

[BeyondGeography]

8. They're easy to despise because they loves them some gubmint teat

and then they move even further right, like in West Virginia where you can listen to Rush while driving on all those nice highways Robert Byrd delivered.

Fuck 'em.

[Bonhomme Richard]

10. They want to raise the gas tax so you and I pay for it and....

at the same time lower corporate and 1% tax rates.......................................and that's what they will do.

[n2doc]

11. plus toll roads and bridges

Then when they go bankrupt they can get government to bail them out. What a racket.

[Marie Marie]

12. And yet, they still don't get it.

You almost (but not quite) have to pity their stupidity. See, it is only the lower classes that should suffer - they should always go to the head of the line, and when that isn't feasible, they whine. Hey A-holes, you got what you wanted now live with it like the rest of have to.