And quite honestly I can't fault them too much for going to an extreme example, since the right likes to pretend bare minimum ideas like centralized health insurance will magically result in food lines and firing squads

Generally because the 'right' politicians are lobbied heavily by big pharma and private healthcare businesses

^^^

They make money, so they don't give a shit

They still want you broke and starving, they just want that money to go in their pockets instead of vanishing into thin fucking air

Generally what I've seen from US politics is both parties desperately fighting for credit for action X or action Y

Rather than putting citizens first and improving the quality of life, it's generally party politics and party image first

yes and no. Republicans have lost any illusion of being actors in the best interest of the common citizenry after Bush bet the farm on market deregulation and corporate welfare, which has led to the ill-concieved notion that only the democrats will solve this

part and parcel of an artificially forced two-party system

It seems that Democrats are actually pushing for solutions whereas the Republicans are just saying "no no no" and not offering any solutions of their own

OR, the democrats are at least trying to do something

Good or bad, I don't know. At least they're attempting something.

That is largely the case, but Democrats have lost the plot on what will actually positively impact the country in most topics.

I don't know all that much about both parties tbh

They have a decent approach to healthcare though

universal health insurance and publicly funded college are about the only genuinely good ideas they've got so far, at least ideas held up by several candidates

Those are the only two that I know they have

but the rest are open borders, a no-delay sharp jump in minimum wage, continual bending of the knee to identitarian rhetoric like reparations, and refusal to substantively oppose the current foreign policy of endless war

I would imagine the democrats to be hawks?

I would have expected doves?

But you're absolutely correct about Republicans simply being contrarian and offering no solutions of their own

Republicans certainly corner the political market on border security, but that's really about it.

Sounds about right

That's where most of their focus is

That and "Socialism bad"

exactly, and they've spent decades branding any sort of direct-government-interaction with these issues as 'socialism', that its no wonder a new generation has lost patience and said "you know what, fine, guess we're socialists now."

Yep

That's the red scare for you

It seems like the Republicans are out of touch with the times

Stuck in the cold war

Don't forget, Socialist and communist ideology hit fertile soil in Russia because the tsars were fucking isular, self-involved monarchs with no regard for the citizenry

Moscow was starving long before Lenin came along.

Yep

The Republicans offering very little is the reason I think they will lose in 2020

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Communism and socialism are incorrect philosophies that lead to ruin, that's not in question. But Republican party orthodoxy gets a fair share of credit for its rise in America.

Tbh what the Democrats are offering isn't even that bad

They'll never get any of the 'radical' things through

But the more moderate reforms, they could do

*Depending on what the houses look like*

But the more moderate reform is acceptable to a majority of Democrats