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Republicans |
Democrats |
My Approach |
| Achieve district offices by manipulating voting districts in their favor | Achieve district offices by manipulating voting districts in their favor | Multi-member districts – top 5 candidates have voting strength based on number of votes they receive. Virtually all voters get represented. |
| Seeking to limit voting to their constituents by all legal and illegal means | Seek to maximize their votes by making everyone legal and encourage voting multiple times | Anyone with legal residence or paying property taxes in a district may vote for any office that votes on tax issues. |
| Seeking to undo social safety nets | Support all government programs whether they have any benefit | Support all voluntary social safety nets |
| Run up huge deficits when in power since Reagan | Will spend as much as they can get away with | Level of spending is important, not whether there are deficits |
| Use the power of government to control people on issues dear to their base | Use the power of government to control people on issues dear to their base | Use power of government to punish aggression, theft and fraud |
| Use anti-social positions to energize their base | Demonize all opposition to energize their base. | Use persuasion to energize their base |
| Eager for foreign military adventure | Depite rhetoric, provides support for foreign military adventures | Support only defensive military action of land areas in which a majority of people pay US taxes |
| Eager for un-necessary military spending | Supports all domestic military spending whether necessary or not | Support voluntary funding of military |
| Use propaganda to mask their real agenda | Lie to mask their real agenda | Lying about and withholding government information should be an impeachable offense |
| Favor policies that benefit the rich | Give lip service to policies that benefit the poor. Truly only care about getting relected. | Separation of government from the economy |
| Happy to socialize big business losses and privatize profit | Happy to socialize big business losses and confiscate all profit | Separation of government from the economy |
| Against many progressive policy’s first sponsored by moderate Republicans | For any policy that increases government control of peoples lives | Support all voluntary and peaceful behavior |
| Political power more important than policy that will benefit the population | Political power more important than policy that will benefit the population | Support minimizing political power. |
| No longer willing to invest in a better future for the US | Wants to invest other people’s money. Does not measure outcomes | Supports all voluntary and peaceful behavior |