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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 10:38 PM Feb 2018

The updated "both parties are NOT the same" list

I keep adding to it.
Feel free to copy, add to it, and share it, especially with those who say, "both parties are the same".

Here's the latest...


Things that Democrats would not be doing if they had the power:

Escalating towards nuclear war with NK.
Pulling out of Paris Climate Agreement.
Reducing National Monuments.
Defunding renewable energy.
Defunding CHIP.
Not helping Puerto Rico sufficiently.
Threatening and deporting DACA.
Building a wall on the southern border.
Attacking our allies and praising Russia.
Inviting Russian spies alone into the Oval Office and sharing classified intel with them.
Ignoring the Russia's cyber attack on our democracy.
Trying to revive the war on cannabis.
Backing expansion of private prisons.
Sabotaging the ACA.
Pushing an obscene tax bill which trigger cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
Preparing to decimate the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.
A State Department in shambles.
Privatization schemes against public education.
Expanding the private prison system.
Attacking the BLM movement.
Praising White Supremacists.
Renewing attacks on our LGBT brothers and sisters.
Destroying Net Neutrality.
Decimating clean water and clean air standards.
Banning certain words from useage at the Center for Disease Control.
Oil drilling off our coasts.
30% tariff tax on solar panels.
Packing the Federal bench with pro-corporate rightwing extremist judges.
Cutting funding to Meals on Wheels.
Decimating women's rights.
Rolling back sexual assault protections on college campuses.
Attempting to discredit our FBI as it investigates Russian influence on our democracy.
Protecting wife beaters.


To name a few.

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The updated "both parties are NOT the same" list (Original Post) SHRED Feb 2018 OP
Very nice list so far! tonyt53 Feb 2018 #1
Thanks and it keeps growing! SHRED Feb 2018 #2
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