It's gonna be a sea of red next year

but not as big or delicious as the sea of leftist tears

I'd just love to see a return of moderate control of the govt

And a little spring cleaning to existing laws to either update or trash them

That's all I ask

yeah man. lot to ask though, that would require a sane opposition party

Which is hard af to do because moderate ideas are boring

most of the big issues now aren't something that has a moderate possion, it's either one side or the other.

examples: abortion, gun rights, voter ID.

it's because one side is shoving the overton window as far as they possibly can in one direction

but at the same time where is the middle on any of those?

I think moderate is fine for the low level nitty gritty workings of government, but at this point it's like are we going full communist or not

so 🤷‍♂️

that is a bit fair, but that isn't what anyone is talking about.

there is also the issue about how do you find a middle ground between "wants to increase funding for a program" and "wants to decrease funding for a program"?

leaveing it as is doesn't make anyone happy.

agreed tbh

a moderate basically tries to achieve compromise

Use the nickle plan it was first brought up by Brown but others have since suggested it. **All** departments create 5% in cuts. No favoritism. It's not ideal but it removes bias.

I would be totaly ok with cutting everything over time like that.

but remember these are people who call "reduction in increase" a cut.

Because the problem is *everyone* has a program of department they like. So it can only be politically viable if everyone has to make the same cuts.

"program A is going to grow %5, I only want it to grow %3."
"how could you cut such an important program!"

but as much as i am interested in dealing with the middle ground I want to know how someone can be moderate on a binary choice,
as plenty of issues are right now.

I think when we get to the point where being moderate is viable, we have much smaller things at stake

Ultimately you can't compromise between opposite fundamental values

TBQH a freeze (ie no increase) would work on a long enough timeline. Because the GDP keeps growing so the same expenditure with increasing revenue eventually solves the deficit. But an actual reduction works on a much more reasonable time table.

Trump's ripping Pelosi a new one at his rally rn

ultimately I do agree the best option would be move the big things back to state level, but that aint gonna happen any time soon.
Too many people make their living (and a very rich one at that) off the big mess that is the federal government to ever let it change in such a way.

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if i had the power
I would remove the federal government's power to tax anything other then imports (and I may not even give them that)
then I would have the states each agree to give a set % of their tax income to the federal government.
I would remove the federal government's authority to incur debt, if someone wants debt to fund a program they have to foot that bill personally.
I would make it so federal law can't be imposed on states, rather it would be all of the states agreeing on a single law unanimously, it would be reserved for the really clear cut things like "murder is bad"

this would clean up alot of crap, because then if a state were failing the other states wouldn't be paying for it, none of this "net tax contributor" crap.

that sounds pretty solid

I wouldn't even give federal agents any authority to act in a state, they are just a liaison who can be used to keep everyone in a case in the loop.

no federal police knocking at doors with no idea what the laws in that state are.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50840934

I don't think he has been impeached yet, Congress just voted to impeach him, but now the Senate has to agree.

I could be mistaken though

The Republican response should be to impeach the next Democrat president the second they gain the House, and turn impeachment into a tradition that is simply done as soon as they get into office.

I mean, it would be funny.

don't think it would be good for anything though.

funny enough, I don't think anyone has been kicked out of office by impeachment, I think the one guy resigned, and the other wasn't found guilty by Senate.