Biden vs Trump 2024 Political Platforms, Policies and Issues

[zorg1000]

Chrkeller said:

zorg1000 said:

In theory, sure. But in practice it’s just as likely to be a mess. For example, look at Andrew Yang’s Forward Party, “we’re not left or right, we’re forward!”

The problem with being a party whose identity is the middle is they don’t necessarily have a cohesive set of goals.

”The left wants to raise taxes and the right wants to lower taxes, so we’re just going to leave them where they’re at!”

”The left wants to restore Roe v Wade, the right wants to impose a federal abortion ban, so we’re just gonna leave it up to the states!”

”The left wants universal healthcare and the right wants to repeal the ACA, so we’re just gonna leave healthcare alone!”

I’m not saying there aren’t areas where compromise can happen but it’s not like Bill Clinton, Barack Obama or Joe Biden are far left by any means and often times had to meet in the middle to get something passed. The Democratic Party of the last 30+ years has been a bit left of center.

Maybe.  All I know is our current system isn't sustainable either.  Can't hurt to try something new.  I mean each side trying to out extreme each other is beyond broken.

Yang didn't have a following.  I think if a well know democratic and a well known republican join forces and pre-align the platform....  could work.

It’s a false equivalence to pretend the current left & right are equally extreme. Let’s look at the left-right spectrum

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Over the last few decades, Democrats have shifted from Moderate to Liberal while Republicans have shifted from Conservative to Extreme-Right.

You’re right that the current system is fucked and that’s because of partisan gerrymandering, the filibuster and the electoral college allowing the minority party to beat or block the majority party.

As long as Republicans continue to win or go back and forth with Democrats then they have no incentive to moderate themselves.