As Matthew Dowd puts it: "On roe v. wade, Ds are where center of country is. On protecting democracy, Ds are where is. on gun reform, Ds are where center is. on raising minimum wage, Ds are where center is...on climate change, Ds are where center is. On raising taxes on wealthy, Ds are where center is. On international relations, Ds are at center. On protecting social security/medicare, Ds are at center. On respect for diversity of race, sexuality, faith, Ds are where center is."
As our friend The Values Voter has shown, there is a disconnect between the perception/belief that the GOP is better for the economy and the reality of history.
Matthew Dowd ran for office as a democrat and has accumulated several million dollars as a pundit espousing the views demanded by employment with ABC. It's pretty obvious that democrats are winning elections so there is truth in what he says about the "center". My opinion is that the center has been skewed by the education system, the media and by years of importing immigrants who are not a net benefit to society and also are not, as a whole, supportive of American values. The military cannot not come close to meeting its recruiting goals from the "center" except by lowering standards and accepting misfits. I'm not impressed by the "center". It's average at best, but that's what the USA is becoming
You've mentioned The Values Voter before but all I can find with that moniker is a website for sale.
Thanks again. Interesting chart. It does show that Trump is not necessarily an economic genius, but the gains were fairly stable. It does not cover Trump's term going into a Covid panic recession which probably was not great. It shows good results for Biden when the economy was coming out of a Covid panic recession. I'm not sure what the chart is measuring. Is it the GDP? If so, it does not go far enough to show the inevitable decline in the economy caused by correcting a period of high inflation. 70% of GDP is consumer consumption which goes up during inflation until people run out of money to spend.
Abortion has been banned by the 14th amendment to the Constitution since 1869. Oh, if we just had some politicians and judges, oh, and journalists with backbone to stand on the Constitution, the abortion issue would be moot.
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Note the amendment is talking about the powers of the State. It takes some serious twisting to make this a limitation on personal activities.
It’s interesting legal theory, but I think the flaw is that the law doesn’t define unborn babies as people with rights. A few states have passed personhood laws, but I think that new ones would have the same difficulty as other abortion restrictions.
That seems to be the case according to this. SCOTUS established viability (about 24 weeks) as threshold for personhood under Roe. They didn’t address the question in Dobbs and didn’t take up a personhood case last year.
I think most people would be OK with that being the case, specifically calling out viability and not X number of weeks - 'cause natural viability is ~32 weeks, while access to advanced medicine in high income countries is what makes the ~24 week viability possible.
As Matthew Dowd puts it: "On roe v. wade, Ds are where center of country is. On protecting democracy, Ds are where is. on gun reform, Ds are where center is. on raising minimum wage, Ds are where center is...on climate change, Ds are where center is. On raising taxes on wealthy, Ds are where center is. On international relations, Ds are at center. On protecting social security/medicare, Ds are at center. On respect for diversity of race, sexuality, faith, Ds are where center is."
As our friend The Values Voter has shown, there is a disconnect between the perception/belief that the GOP is better for the economy and the reality of history.
Matthew Dowd ran for office as a democrat and has accumulated several million dollars as a pundit espousing the views demanded by employment with ABC. It's pretty obvious that democrats are winning elections so there is truth in what he says about the "center". My opinion is that the center has been skewed by the education system, the media and by years of importing immigrants who are not a net benefit to society and also are not, as a whole, supportive of American values. The military cannot not come close to meeting its recruiting goals from the "center" except by lowering standards and accepting misfits. I'm not impressed by the "center". It's average at best, but that's what the USA is becoming
You've mentioned The Values Voter before but all I can find with that moniker is a website for sale.
https://twitter.com/thevaluesvoter
Thanks, but I do not X.
He's also on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@thevaluesvoter/post/CzRt1L-pFNI
Thanks again. Interesting chart. It does show that Trump is not necessarily an economic genius, but the gains were fairly stable. It does not cover Trump's term going into a Covid panic recession which probably was not great. It shows good results for Biden when the economy was coming out of a Covid panic recession. I'm not sure what the chart is measuring. Is it the GDP? If so, it does not go far enough to show the inevitable decline in the economy caused by correcting a period of high inflation. 70% of GDP is consumer consumption which goes up during inflation until people run out of money to spend.
I just grabbed a random post for ease. Generally though, Trump's economy was about average prior to COVID.
Abortion has been banned by the 14th amendment to the Constitution since 1869. Oh, if we just had some politicians and judges, oh, and journalists with backbone to stand on the Constitution, the abortion issue would be moot.
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Note the amendment is talking about the powers of the State. It takes some serious twisting to make this a limitation on personal activities.
Wow! Talk about some "serious twisting." Calling murder and Genocide "personal activities."
It’s interesting legal theory, but I think the flaw is that the law doesn’t define unborn babies as people with rights. A few states have passed personhood laws, but I think that new ones would have the same difficulty as other abortion restrictions.
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-government-and-politics-constitutions-93c27f3132ecc78e913120fe4d6c0977
The question there is when does personhood kick in: viability?
That seems to be the case according to this. SCOTUS established viability (about 24 weeks) as threshold for personhood under Roe. They didn’t address the question in Dobbs and didn’t take up a personhood case last year.
https://time.com/6191886/fetal-personhood-laws-roe-abortion/
I think most people would be OK with that being the case, specifically calling out viability and not X number of weeks - 'cause natural viability is ~32 weeks, while access to advanced medicine in high income countries is what makes the ~24 week viability possible.