Ted Rall for May 05, 2023

Not a perfect equivalency.

It reminds me of the corporate money false equivalency. Sure, some Democrats do fall into the trap of hating the other side for the sake of hating the other side, but it’s not nearly as many as Republicans who live for ‘liberal tears’.

And the winners are.. the Oligarchs who fund both parties to keep the status quo and/or make the lives of the serfs more divisive and miserable. Meanwhile, their unrestrained greed strives to capture rest of the wealth in America.

Make it sound like it matters when it doesn’t

Freedom is the opposite of common good?

The same with isolationism and empire?

Safety net is incompatible with fiscal conservatism?

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Looks like you’re aiming to stir up arguments where none exist.

The battle of bad ideas vs. no ideas.

Got that right.

These are more like topics for debate by a deliberative/collaborative team attempting to find the most agreeable resolution contrasted with the irrational/obstructive partisanship we’re currently experiencing.

Republicons (at least the current majority of them) hate liberal democrats on a visceral level. They see them as evil that must be destroyed.

Democrats hate what repubs do, say, and try to force down the majorities throat. But they still stupidly try to reach compromises with them, to govern WITH them rather than in spite of them and are always willing to reach out a hand despite the rights tendency to try to chop it off.

Neither party has a monopoly on stupidity but one side definitely leans more toward civilized rational behavior than the other.

Snide, Ted. Very snide. :-)

As I have often noted, the dislike of democrats for republicans and vice versa has roughly the substance of the old Red Sox – Yankees rivalry.

Only one of those people still believes everyone should get to vote & have their vote counted.

Only one of those people thinks a 15 year old should be forced to have her rapist’s baby.

Democrats hate Republicans because Republicans want to genocide immigrants, Muslims, Jewish people, and gay and trans people.

Republicans hate Democrats because Democrats want to give them healthcare.

Kind of a big difference there….

There is nothing to like about republicans, what have they done for the country?

Well, the average modern American conservative is, for all practical purpose, a fascist. While the average modern American liberal is, for all practical purpose, powerless or spineless

ooh – nothing better than false dichotomies to rile the masses

I honestly don’t get all the liberals who tune in every day to Ted Rall only to get so irrationally angry about the comic every. single. day. it’s posted. When I read editorial comics I don’t agree with I simply stop reading them and find comics I do enjoy reading instead.

It’s not Republican versus Democrat, it is Liberal versus conservative. The parties change philosophies through the years. When the following speech was made the Republican Party and Republican President were Liberal.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

—Abraham Lincoln

The Republican Party and the Democrat Party – two sides of a coin minted in H e l l.

Ah Ted, reducing me down to simply hating someone because they are a Republican

I fervently dislike many, many Republican policy positions and feel they are a big net negative for our society and people. If someone who is a Republican supports those policy positions, or whole heartedly supports Republican politicians who put forth those policy positions, how am I supposed to feel about that person? Ted implies I can only hate them. Can’t I just dislike them? Also, support of a lot of Republican policies, and their implications, say a whole lot more about a person than they are “just” a Republican. And it’s not complimentary.

Sorry Ted, I guess this one was just too nuanced for little ole me. Or just lazy.

Ted’s self portrait

FERDERALISM?!!! WTFN (W T Fox News)?!!!These people aren’t Federalists any more than I’m a Cat Lover having owned 5 dogs but never a cat, or a Ford Aficionado w/ 2 Chevrolets in my garage!if you don’t believe Hamilton’s turning in his grave, just read the Federalist Papers (w/ which you’re free to agree or disagree with, of course.)