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In reply to the discussion: 50,000 posts and the only mind I’ve changed is my own (reposted following lock) [View all]ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)...how 60s style Republicans are in favor of letting states experiment with Marijuana, gay rights, anti-war, keeping blue laws from being enacted, being against gun rights (except anti-gun rights for blacks), and maybe I'll take Obama's tweaking of the media seriously. The ACA might not have been everything the single payer crowd wanted, but it sure the hell isn't unfettered free trade; it's regulated trade.
The only way Obama is a 60s style Republican is if you take the Republicans' circa 1960 campaign lies about supporting unions seriously. When you look carefully at what they actually did to unions even back then, you realize that their pretense was fake, and everyone back then knew it.
Scuba is mad that Obama's leadership (that he disagrees with) led us out of a national economic crisis, and so (just like petulant extremist Republicans) has convinced himself that the economy is on the brink of collapse. He's also calling us being three (unnamed) "wars", because someone killing someone somewhere on the entire planet makes it ours, despite the US having fewer casualties than in Detroit alone.
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