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I never said they’re the same. I said they are equally moral or correct. Every issue has to debated and thought through and every single one always has a trade off, whether the left gets their way or the right. I am constantly deriding Trump, I haven’t got the blinkers on like many here.Theres your problem. You actually think they're the same. Or at least that rationale lets you excuse the publicans. The two sides of US politics are absolutely no longer comparable. Politicians v MMA cage fighters.
The publican pollies are very different to most conservatives in the states. Most conservatives are appalled by MAGA and Trumpism. I was comparing the performances in congress.
Dems "fixed" healthcare, pubs want to break it again
Dems fixed infrastructure, ppubs voted against it but are now opening the bridges etc.
Publicans lowered taxes, increased the deficit and now blame dems for the bill.
Remember Trumps almost daily promises of action on infrastructure? Never happened. Joe did it. Remember the furor around immigartion recently/currently. The dems met with some publicans who wanted to achieve a fix, compromised, found a fix to migration and Trump and his cohorts blocked it so they would have an issue to campaign on. The publicans dont want to fix things and havent since the advent of the tea party. Theyre not interested in equity and fairness and helping the people, purely in power and helping themselves and their mates.
Not dissimilar here in Oz. Duttons crazy nuclear dream is just an excuse to keep right on the fossil fuel path for another 30 years. Whos in bed with the ff industry? Thats right, the Libnat party. In the same way one side of Australian politics is and always will be better for the environment, the other side will always be on the side of big business. They are not the same.
You just brought up an issue with Dutton. You believe he wants nuclear power because this will helps his mates in the fossil fuel industry? There will always be pro and cons to this and every issue. I personally have a massive issue with the wind farms destroying the country landscape, dividing small towns, disincentivising farming, poor long term output with moving parts, extremely high embodied energy startup, a horrendous loss of power through too large a grid, etc etc. Nuclear has as many if not more problems. But it’s not all above board here. I’ve recently heard that one of the reasons the Labour governments are against nuclear is because so many of the big Super funds are tied up in investing into this infrastructure, so monied interest are winning over the environment, but yeah let’s make out wind is better for the ‘environment’. Everything’s a trade off.