https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/links-101818 MGB:
Entitlement cuts are a campaign promise that he thinks will fire up the GOP base. It is a cheap move because the base thinks entitlements go to poor people, not retirees (either themselves, their parents or their grandparents for those remaining young Republicans). There is no chance of these passing and doing so would be a disaster for both the beneficiaries and the economy, since more money would be freed up from bond purchases to run up asset inflation. Mostly stocks, oil futures and junk like Bitcoin. 2008, here we come again!
The NYT solution is what we used to call Environmental Socialism, a term created by the late Joel Kovel. We used to discuss these issues as they would apply to cooperatives. BTW, fusion is in our future if we simply ignore the Koch astroturfers who want to cut its funding.
Moral arguments on abortion don't help unless you are abandoning any legal solution, which is fine with most of us. There is already a negative right to life. The U.S. government cannot kill the unborn, either to limit fertility or by executing a pregnant woman. A positive right to life is another matter. It can only be passed legislatively, which would likely cement the status quo with only a few modifications. I'm all for that too, because it would end the electoral politics associated with the issue.
The outrage over voter suppression can be found every night at 9 PM Eastern on MSNBC. Rachel has been focusing on it and the Tribes have been doing a work around. These incidents are fuel for the restoration of the preclearance provisions in the Voting Rights Act. The bigger the Democrats win, the more likely a veto would fail and I don't believe for a second that Trump is not cheering the racists on.
Trump has a thing for reactionaries of all faiths because he is one and because, regardless of what he really believes on abortion, keeping the issue going is good for GOP fundraising and GOTV.
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