re: #396 Rightwingconspirator

I’m only registered as a Democrat to protest the massive insanity of the GOP.

And ‘left’ and ‘right’ are fictitious terms that don’t have any inherent meaning. The only real meaning they have in the US is either as shorthand for “GOP” or “Democrat”, or as shorthand for “Social conservative/anti-intellectual” and “Normal person”.

I don’t consider the Democrats a ‘left-wing’ party if we’re talking about fiscal issues as they’ve been defined by the parties historically. They pretty much occupy the place the GOP did about forty years ago, maybe a little farther to the ‘right’.

It’s weird to me how quickly the GOP has picked up the Ayn Rand, voodoo economics banner again, and how the media isn’t pointing out “None of this bullshit worked before and everyone ridiculed it, why on earth is it believable now?” But Ryan’s plan still gets called ‘brave’.

Sheesh.