11-25-2019, 04:53 PM
(11-25-2019, 04:35 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: eh, I've only heard one politician mention gun confiscation and Beto is a dumbass.
You've never heard of Corey Booker and Kamala Harris?
Quote:The Green New Deal, as I understand it, is just a framework proposal with goals rather than defined policy information. More just an approach to environmental (And economic) reform, like a carbon tax. Unless they've released more information about it in the last few months. Why do you find it to be a joke?
Because some of their stated objectives are virtually impossible.
Quote:Reparations is one of those "it'd be great, but the specifics of such a policy would be difficult to define without offending or alienating some portion of the group." For example, should Reparations explicitly apply to those who are descendants of slaves? Or should it take into account the lost economic growth to the black community as a result of redlining and other racist policies well into the 1900s? It's something to strive towards, but I sincerely doubt any Democrat will ever get to the point where they're proposing a realistic law or form of legislation that is actionable. I think the most anyone has proposed is "let's look into if it's even possible."
It's a hornet's nest, I agree. Elizabeth Warren is pushing this hard now.
Quote:Universal Basic Income is controversial, but I get why Andrew Yang is pitching it. There needs to be some kind of response to the fact that jobs are slowly but surely being replaced by automation. That'll leave a lot of blue collar workers with nowhere to go unless they can retrain and potentially move to another area where more jobs are available.
I agree about automation, which is why I find the constant importing of ultra cheap labor to be utterly contradictory to this stated concern. Oh, I suppose we can add abolishing ICE and borders to the list as well.
Quote:I'm not sure what you mean by gutting criminal reform though.
The essential decriminalization of non-violent crimes. Check out the Philly DA.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/magazine/larry-krasner-philadelphia-district-attorney-progressive.html
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/philadelphia-district-attorney-larry-krasner-criminal-justice-reform.html
Check out Seattle.
https://komonews.com/news/local/komo-news-special-seattle-is-dying
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogervaldez/2019/04/08/seattle-isnt-dying-yet-but-the-latest-debate-might-kill-it/#591da8bd3f25
I can tell you first hand that crime in LA is rising and the word on the street is that the police, probation and parole "can't do shit to us". I have friends who are parole agents and they literally aren't allowed to violate their parolees. I've railed against AB109 in the past. I could go into insane detail on this front but I'm literally about to leave to me sister's for the holiday.
On that note, everyone enjoy their Thanksgiving holiday!
