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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 3:19 PM
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Your "in other words" is simply wrong.

Play all the word games you want. Your list was nothing more than the reheated sardine sandwich known as Marxism with the add of bad mayonaise on the top.

There are almost no Democratic ideas that Republicans would think are good - and vice versa.

Sure. Because anyone who thinks that price controls are Teh Awesome really shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the economy becasue they clearly don't understand its mechanisms.

Bill Clinton was the last national democrat who really and truly understood the economy down to its gears. I heard him give a master's class on farm commodities once. The man did know his stuff. Now? Your party thinks the warm light of collectivism is the bee's knees.

Not gonna fly.

People on this board tell you their opinions on things here all the time.

Laughing.
Out.
Loud.

No liberal on this board does any such thing. You *rarely* see any "I think we should do Policy X" posts from that crowd. What you see instead is "Trump did a thing and I hate the thing".

Hardly the same thing. And when I say "hardly", I mean Not in the same zip code.

But if you think every policy you disagree with is not "really" an idea, and every policy you agree with is just "copying" some Republican, then by definition no one can ever have a new good idea except for Republicans. So I think your assessment here is more an artifact of your own filters, rather than anything about the Democratic party.

Nah, bruv. I hate to break it to you, but the left has been bereft of anything original or good in terms of policy in decades now. It takes a little time but pretty much every single social experiment the d's have tried at all levels in the last 20 years have been abject busts.

Obamacare? Failure.
Border policy? Failure.
Rent/price controls? Failure.
Taxation as a source of growth? Failure.
Increased regulations as a source of growth? Failure.
Green energy? Failure.

On and on.
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