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Originally Posted by crockett
The problem with that Robbie, is there are no fiscal conservatives or social liberals in Washington. I've never had any issues with fiscal conservatives much the same as social liberals, but name any whom are in office, let alone a mix of the two..  |
There aren't any.
On either "side".
There USED to be the Northeastern Republicans (the Rockefeller Republicans as there were called). They were socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
And there USED to be the "Blue Dog" Democrats who were socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
Both parties have pushed them aside. The reason? Because that crazy minority of people I mentioned in my previous post who are organized politically "go after" these "moderates" viciously during elections.
They want them gone and replaced with politicians who will act as if they will do what these crazies want.
I don't really think that Boehner, Cruz, McConell, Pelosi, Reid, etc. even believe half of the shit they say or do. They just do it to keep getting voted in to power over and over and over.
I mean, look at how many times the "religious right" has gotten their guy in to the Presidency...and yet none of their insanity ever comes to pass.
Hell, remember when Bush took office and named Ashcroft as his attorney general?
We all thought it was the end of sex, porn, and anything fun. lol
But nothing came of it. It never does.
When Reagan was President, I felt the country was actually more socially liberal. I was living off the strip in Ft. Lauderdale a block from the beach. And the girls were wearing tiny string thongs and no tops...just little decals over their nipples.
Then in the 1990's when Pres. Clinton was in office...it seemed the country got conversely more "conservative" socially.
I was living in Myrtle Beach, SC then. And suddenly, over most of the country, local govt's started passing laws making it ILLEGAL for a girl to wear a thong on the beach!!!
My girlfriend at the time was a stripper at Thee DollHouse in Myrtle Beach and she and her co-workers would wear shirts that said "I'm nude, not lewd" that a local shop made to protest the new law.
These days, when you go to the beach...you RARELY see girls in thongs anymore because most places have outlawed them.
It's weird. It's almost like whichever party is in power usually reflects more on the fiscal mood of the country and seems to be he opposite of the social climate.
For instance, we have President Obama in office. You would think the country would be feeling more liberal.
But in California (of all places...not Alabama, not Georgia...but freakin' California!), the govt. there is waging war on the porn industry!
And you would think that it would be Republicans trying to run our lives...yet, people can't smoke in public (for health reasons)...and now you have "liberal" politicians banning vaping in public too!
Then you got a guy like Bloomberg. Started off as a Dem, switched to Republican to win votes. Then he switched back and forth a couple of times between affiliations (whatever served his purposes to get him elected).
And this "liberal" guy creates a law that tells people how large of a soda they can buy!
It's insane.