Official 2020 US Election: Democratic Party Discussion

[Bofferbrauer2]

Jaicee said:

tsogud said:

Do y'all think Trump will posture so much to the left as to campaign on M4A or at least a twisted version of "universal healthcare" that sounds good but really isn't?

In the past few days he has pushed for a temporary "UBI" so to speak of $1,000 and has approved a waiver that will allow the state of Florida to sign up and pay doctors and hospitals through Medicaid, giving a boost to their ability to respond to the coronavirus. He has also waived interest on student loans and has stopped foreclosures and evictions tied to the fed govt.

It's not looking so good for us if he's able to pull off this fake populism bs again.

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Yeah, that's republicans in a nutshell. Preach fiscal conservatism but then go on reducing taxes and increase spending, leaving behind a mess for the democrats to clean up afterwards - and then cried upon by the republicans that the budget ain't balanced and that the social programs couldn't possibly be payed for.

I seriously wish the average memory span of people would be longer than just a couple days...

It's tough to tell. Will Trump get political credit for, you know, sending people $2,000 and such in their time of greatest need or will the public ask themselves whether they're better off today than they were four years ago? I...dunno. The historical record would seem to suggest the latter. Then again, Boris Johnson won in a (technical) landslide over the UK last December in the middle of an economic downturn (albeit a far less severe one), so hey, who knows how gullible people are? It just goes to show that you've gotta remind people of how exactly our particular covid-19 crisis here in the United States got this bad in the first place.

It also helps to point out that President Trump also feels that the hotel industry needs a bailout. I wonder why that might be, and why that too seems to be an equally compelling priority for this administration.

The Situation in the UK was not comparable. Corbin made himself unelectable with his alternate Brexit proposition and his past and the Leader of the LibDems  seemingly made everything possible to get hated by everyone. Under these circumstances, I'd say that Johnson's win was actually smaller than expected, as the opposition killed itself beforehand.

Coming with UBI just before the election would be double-edged for him, as it's also easy to attack as trying to bribe the people into voting him instead of an actual policy idea.