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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Vote Republican, cut ACA
Date: 02/02/26 1:57 PM
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Such as the ideas you just listed. For every area of policy-making you listed!

As I said: the ones where they'll just...copy Trump...but claim they're not. Except for the border, that they'll throw open again the second they think no one is looking.

I'm not sure why you keep saying the Democrats have no ideas, when I bet that for almost every possible area of policy, you could probably name at least one left-coded or Democratic idea for that policy field that you think is terrible or dumb.

Oh, okay. Now we're having a semantics debate. Sure - I can do that. How about this?

The democrats have no new, interesting, innovative, or even marginally competent ideas that don't involve copying something the GOP is already doing. Does that help?

Is there a specific area of policy that you think the Democrats literally have no ideas, even bad ones?

Sure. I've already listed them, but let's create a specific set of categories the democrats have zero for, in no particular order:

Energy Policy
Environmental policy
Taxation
Border security
Foreign policy all-up
Policing and public safety
"Affordability"
Healthcare
The economy in general
National security
International diplomacy

Did I miss anything?

Let's flip this around. What, in your mind, do the democrats have in terms of "good" ideas? Surely you can name 1 or 2.

Today's democrat party excels at making protest signs and at mobilizing suburban AWFLs to hit the streets and jeer somebody. That's about it. Actual governing isn't a thing.
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