In article >, Jeßus says...
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> On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 19:05:27 -0700, graham > wrote:
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> >On 11/7/2016 6:31 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >> On 11/7/2016 6:15 PM, graham wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> The most important thing is to get rid of those knuckle-dragging,
> >>> backward looking, reactionary Repuglican congressmen and senators!
> >>
> >> Not in my state. The Dems have given us the highest tax increase in the
> >> history of the state and followed up the next year with another
> >> multi-billion dollar deficit. Time to clean house. Present
> >> administration can't give it away and waste it fast enough.
> >
> >Up here, historically, it has been the right wing that has lowered
> >taxes, especially for the wealthier, and then gone on spending sprees,
> >driving up the deficit. They have also been deficient in infrastructure
> >spending (schools, hospitals, roads etc.) so that the centre and centre
> >left governments that follow have been forced to increase taxation to
> >pay for all those RW deficits and repair the damage.
>
> To a non-American, it's amusing as hell to hear the Democrats
> described as being centre or centre left. By our standards, the
> Democrats are left only to Genghis Kahn.

I agree, although isn't Bernie Sanders more left wing than the
Australian Labor party (which, from a Dutch perspective is actually
right wing)?