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I completely agree. I am a stressed sideliner politically, and I like to hear differing opinions, but I'm so tired of the term "free speech" being associated with alt-right dog whistle rhetoric.
What ideas have you heard from the Right in the last decade? Seriously, what have they come up with that wasn't misleading at best and a total grift at worse? I made the move politically left over the last 15 years and don't feel I really changed all that much.
Did you ever notice that the Democrats pushing for the strictest covid restrictions were vacationing in Republican-led areas like Florida and Texas so they would be able to party without masking or social distancing?
Humans are social beings. You can't keep people locked down forever. Republicans were the only ones who even pretended to care about the side effects of forcing people to lock down. Sure, there were business motivations too, but society can't function if everybody is forced to stay at home. Mental health, divorce, domestic violence, and alcoholism were terrible during the covid restrictions in states that had them, and only Republicans even pretended to care about anything other than case numbers.
Other than that, energy independence is a big one. If you shut down fossil fuel production here, we just end up buying them from other countries. Especially since Democrat governors like Pritzker in Illinois are fighting against nuclear energy, which means more coal and natural gas power plants. Wind and solar will only get us so far. Nuclear is our best bet to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels.
I'm also against government overreach and believe the Bill of Rights is important.
That's not an idea, that's finding an excuse to be contrarian. They were 100% being disingenuous throughout.
Nuclear is not only supported in the latest DNC Platform it's supported under Biden's IRA bill.
“We have to invest enormously today to increase our reliance on cleaner and more renewable sources. And that includes nuclear,” Amos Hochstein, special coordinator for international energy affairs for President Biden, told Yahoo Finance. “We haven't built a nuclear power plant in the United States in decades. We have a fleet that needs more support in order to be able to stay up. Look at what happened in Germany by taking offline nuclear. They’re now burning coal ... that's something we shouldn't be doing here.” https://news.yahoo.com/nuclear-energy-could-make-a-comeback-under-democrats-new-bill-181427778.html
That's great, but Pritzker literally just vetoed the return of nuclear in Illinois.
I don’t live there, so there’s nothing I can do about it. Write your representatives if you do.