Friday, April 30, 2021

Everything New Is Old Again

This is a pretty inevitable return to form (George Conway retweeted this, which is where I found it.  Conway is a reliable critic of Trump, but he’s no liberal.). What's fascinating is how intellectually bankrupt it is.

I don’t mean an intellectual argument is necessarily persuasive in politics, but even Gingrich dressed up his nonsense in some reasoning.  There’s no reasoning here at all, just shibboleths.  “Bureaucratic speak,” “hard left policy,” the presentation of “the Left” as a dangerous and invalid alternative to...well, something. (Which, yeah, is all Gingrich ever did. But 30 years later, it’s worn out.) The status quo?  Trump?  The GOP, which is now Trump for all intents and purposes?

Granted, it’s a tweet, not a treatise.  But it doesn’t really say anything; not unlike Tim Scott’s response to Biden’s address to Congress.  The most Scott could come up with was that Biden hadn’t “unified” the country, and the only way to understand that term was that Biden wasn’t acting like a Republican.  If that’s all the GOP has now, they really don’t have anything.  Even Politico wants to play: But again, empty phrases substituting for argument.  Robin Hood, after all, is a folk hero; not a symbol of dangerous government overreach. Robbing from the rich to give to the poor, or more accurately, to re-establish justice, doesn’t really have a downside; except for the rich. This is not going well for GOP, and I don’t think Trump alone is their problem:
I honestly don't need to know what Mr. Pierce said in his post to agree with that tweet. Especially because of this: Or this: Boebert and Greene are the face of the GOP, not Tim Scott. And any GOP opposition to Biden's plans faces the question put to Greene: "Tell the people in your district (or state, for Senators) why child care doesn't help them." Or the GOP could try this:
Yeah. Good luck with all of that.
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  1. rustypickup11:37 AM

    "Universal day care" is class warfare against normal people.

    I actually searched to see if Vance has children because of this statement (he married a Yale law school classmate in 2014 and they have two children). Clearly he has never had to find daycare for his children. It's expensive and a nightmare. There are very few providers, the quality has extreme variation and the cost is prohibitive. There were years where my spouse's entire take home salary was effectively spent on childcare. We did it so she could stay current in her profession and have a sense of worth outside the home.

    The study he sights is for preferences, not for the reality of parents that need childcare. Yes, it may be true that those without college degrees prefer one parent to stay home with the children, but show me a non-college requiring job that pays enough for a family to have one spouse stay home with the kids. It's pure fantasy. Non-college jobs in today's world pay so poorly that both spouses have to work. Access to childcare isn't a preference, it's a necessity.

    I can't think of a more kitchen table issue, and the Republicans oppose it. They really are out of touch.

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    1. Rmj11:52 AM

      Daycare is an absolute nightmare for most people. It doesn’t have to be, and after a year of being cutoff from almost everything (schools, work), I think most people are ready to rethink how we help each other.

      The Depression did the same thing for FDR. Hope springs eternal.

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