Republicans vs. democrats

There’s been lots of stats lately showing that for all the talk and reporting of NYC crime, Republican-controlled states have a way higher violent crime rate per capita. Of course NYC will have more incidents of crime than a place like Fort Worth since there are way more people. But on a per capita basis, NY is as safe or safer than republican states, especially regarding violent crime and homicide. It’s just that republican media and politicians are good at this narrative. See for your self and let us know what you find.

And as Reb Eliezer alludes to, there are a lot of programs and policies supported by democrats that pro-republican folks take for granted. In addition, democrats pushed or support the 5-day work week, protection from discrimination in the workplace, and equal pay for women, to name a few. Maybe we think some of these go to far, but should a YWN reader be happy that his hard-working wife would make less than a man? Should it be OK to fire someone for wearing a yarmulke? This is a sampling of issues republicans try to role back.

People are dumb.

Always Ask: Agreed. I spent a few minutes searching for basic city comparisons (blue vs red governors) but didn’t fund anything helpful. Would also be interesting to compare rates of red states against red cities in that state and red states against blue cities in that state.

Republicans think the world should run on dog-eat-dog, but Democrats think it should be the other way around.

I thought this thread was going to be about a softball game.

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“Maybe we think some of these go to far, but should a YWN reader be happy that his hard-working wife would make less than a man? Should it be OK to fire someone for wearing a yarmulke? This is a sampling of issues republicans try to role (sic) back.”

Libs have been throwing around these claims for decades. When I was unfortunately receiving public assistance, beginning under Clinton and through the Bush years I was always told that Republicans would cut my assistance. It kept going up until Obama. You people are slaves to the Democrats just like the People of Color are. Wake up!

What is more likely is that under Democrat rule they’ll pass a law giving employers a right to compel an employee to terminate a pregnancy. Chew on that.

The Republicans caused that we need two salaries to make a living, so the woman’s place cannot be at home anymore.

It was the feminists, who are clearly Democrats, that pushed women out of the home and into the workforce.

To the original question:.
The reason why people vote Democrat so much is for all the freebies.

Reb E, it seems to me that you are out of touch with the modern Democrat party. Spend some time on a college campus and see the radicalism being pushed.

Just catching up on thread. A few thoughts:
Always Ask and Modern’s combined homicide stats suggests we’ll always see higher crime rates in cities no matter who is in charge. And that it’s a false republican politician/media narrative that crime is more prevalent in blue cities. Thanks modern, I’d like to know where you got those.

ujm – I’d like to know how republicans fought against discrimination. Unless you’re talking about slavery 160 years ago? Seriously.

Hi Reb Eliezer -“The Republicans caused that we need two salaries to make a living, so the woman’s place cannot be at home anymore.” how did they do this? I assume it’s more democrats who created a culture of women wanting working full time. And figured the resulting higher family incomes allowed companies to take advantage by charging more and making more dumb “necessities” to waste everyone’s disposable income on.

“Any radicalism is no good on either side.”

True ,but the radicalism of the left is accepted in the mainstream left and pulling it lefter and lefter. For example, ilhan Omar made antisemitic comments and pelisi still appointed her to a couple foreign relations committees.

Otoh, people like David duke have been rejected by the right for their hate speech.

er > we’ll always see higher crime rates in cities no matter who is in charge

er, NYC and some other cities had a mixture of D- or R- (or moderate D-) mayors. You may want to compare performance in those cities (comparing with others) under D- and R-. Those who live in NYC – were you safer under Dinkins and de Blasio or Koch, Guiliani, Bloomberg?

Marjorie Taylor Greene has said some dumb and offensive stuff, but has apologized. Why? Because her party doesn’t agree. Maybe she has done teshuva.

Ilhan Omar has said some antisemitic stuff but gets rewarded by her party. No change of mind. In fact, The Democrat party has emboldened her.

“True ,but the radicalism of the left is accepted in the mainstream left and pulling it lefter and lefter.”

It goes both ways, I agree for example extreme “social” issues are pretty mainstream in the D party, which is outrageous. But radical ideas rooted in white supremacy and perhaps anarchy have also seeped in to mainstream R party, which is frightening.

Thoughts on the new Forward party? Supposedly a mix of moderate R and Ds. My guess is 1/3 of Ds don’t buy in to the radicalism. And a smaller % of Rs don’t buy into the radicalism of the right. But remember that each election is decided by independents, who nationally lean a but to the right. These are people I would think would be open to a new party.