Good point about comments being worse in 2008, but as a lay person who cares about the science, 2016 feels diff than 2008.
I think the area I find myself disagreeing is your belief that status-quo Dems have had negligible impact on power-balancing.
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my father died when I was 17; I was on my own in 1999, saved largely by liberal programs: Pell, Community College, EITC
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the very next year arguments like this underplayed those very real (to me at least) power-balancing wins.
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the alleged milquetoast obama fought hard to eliminate tons of anti-gay discrimination, and normalize trans priorities.
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you can argue that you'd like them to go harder or faster, but the idea that they're just shills feels hollow to me.
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I don't think they're all shills. Also, very sorry to hear about your dad.
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I agree that Democrats are non-negligibly better on average than Republicans. I'd just argue they're not nearly good enough.
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I'd also argue that the differences between the parties are often overstated. Example: Republicans are generally okay with the EITC.
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actions speak volumes. Obama successfully raised the EITC, the GOP House kept trying to cut it and kept cutting SNAP
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. I'd probably go with this one: