“We’re refugees. What kind of messed-up place would turn away refugees?”Jason Mendoza, The Good Place
The GOP has made over seventy attempts to overturn health-care reform. Not because the public wanted it gone, not because it was a radical plan (remember, it was essentially the same as Romneycare), but because healthcare reform wasn’t profitable enough for their influential donors, instead helping the young and lower-income minorities who most needed it. [1] Republicans did not stop trying to overturn health care reform after one failure, not after two, not after a dozen. Over seventy times. Each time they challenged it, they made some small progress. Maybe a section got overturned, maybe it reinforced their reframing of healthcare as something people shouldn’t have, maybe it was just a little crack in the edifice. But they kept going, even though any “reasonable” person or group would have stopped. And that’s for something that still has majority support, currently at 57% approval (with 37% disapproval). The Democrats have made only one attempt (covering only two counts) to hold Trump to account for his many actions that deserve impeachment (some of which he bragged about while being impeached for them). Thanks to corruption and partisanship in the Senate, Trump is likely be acquitted. There are no (known) plans to seek impeachment for any of the many, MANY other actions that deserve impeachment. [2]
Simply: The GOP keeps pushing on the same ideological point without compromise, even though it’s factually incorrect. Democrats will give up after a single “fair attempt”, even if that attempt was blatantly unfair and rigged. Add in a sprinkling of the GOP whining when basic, observable facts are pointed out to them, and you’ve got a dictatorship souffle on the way. This is the problem. I understand the Democratic (and political left) desire to reach compromise. With reasonable people, that is the best way for things to work out. It falls apart when you’re dealing with bad actors and narcissists. It’s like basic game theory that way. Like the “prisoner’s dilemma” or the UK game show “Golden Balls” or the inevitable part of every zombie flick where the protagonists meet some other survivors… and don’t know whether or not to trust them. In these situations, if everyone’s honest, plays by social rules, and co-operates, everyone wins. Great! That’s also true when you talk about repeated game theory. (The “repeated” means that instead of just ONE situation, you have to keep interacting with the same people or groups.) Everybody cooperates, everyone wins. This is obviously what the Democrats and political left are striving for.
Aside from being misogynistic as fork, what does that even MEAN? I thought you were a comedian.