As noted here. Yes people want less crime, lower inflation, stable social security / medicare, etc.
I actually watched this interview and I wanted Shannon to ask about deficits and the national debt when Rep. Stefanik mentioned more tax cuts and fewer IRS employees?
It is so disappointing that the GOP refuses to be the party of fiscal responsibility. :-(
Trump etal handed out trillions of dollars to people and companies that did not need it, and cut taxes while increasing spending. And they try to blame others for inflation?
I assume there are still people who will vote for them and mortgage their kids further so they personally can pay less in taxes. I hope I am never that selfish.
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Republicans want to be the anti crime party, but they want to do it without acknowledging what the murder committed by Minneapolis police officers meant for the credibility of law enforcement here and elsewhere. Without that, what their position means is simply that we should brutalize people who live in cities more. Meanwhile, Republicans have made a careful and deliberate choice to allow their own party to be led by a criminal.
--Hiram
The whole crime argument fascinates me... Why would it be a "Federal" issue at all?
Aren't cities, counties and states responsible for local law enforcement?
I amazed when my Mother in rural SD is concerned about crime levels in cities hundreds or thousands of miles away. :-O
Crime is crime, when you are the victim of it. I don't really believe that anyone really cares which subdivision of government protects them from it.
In politics, in practically all societies, and in all eras of history, there is division between rural and urban areas. This division can be but doesn't have to be exploited for political advantage. Campaigning in rural areas about crime in cities is one way of doing that. I don't know if the reverse happens that much, that is, people in cities campaigning against rural areas. Environmental issues are one area where it happens, I suppose. But when it does, I think rural folks see city folks as not actively hostile, so much as indifferent or condescending. I think city folks tend to be more self absorbed than rural folks in many ways.
--Hiram
I just watched this show "Dopesick" on Hulu. One way it could be viewed is an account of how the cities exploit rural America.
--Hiram
The political irony of "Dopesick" is thawhot the people who are most victimized by the drug companies, are also most likely to vote for the party that favors the deregulation of those companies. The concerns of the victims are muted because the people they send to Congress are ideologically opposed to many of the measures which would attempt to deal with problem. Those who would be more sympathetic to those issues represent others, who have their own problems. This is something I have talked about, how we we should still be the voices of people we don't represent, who don't attend the picnics we hold.
--Hiram
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