• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    Several L.A. hospice and healthcare providers were raided by federal authorities early Thursday morning.

    The crackdown on the city resulted in eight arrests and the suspension of 221 facilities over 10 weeks, officials said.

    So raiding and shutting down healthcare facilities in Democratic states is the new distraction from the USA losing its own war in Iran and destroying the world’s economy, which was the distraction from Trump raping children?

    When was the last time the Republicans did anything actually good and helpful?

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      When was the last time the Republicans did anything actually good and helpful?

      For anyone but themselves? Not in my lifetime.

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      When was the last time the Republicans did anything actually good and helpful?

      I can personally confirm not within the last 42 years.

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      17 hours ago

      The legends tell of a time when conservatives were supportive of the environment. But I’ve never seen it and I’m a old.

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        It was never true. Conservatives are named optimistically like Democratic Republic of NK or Soviet Republic.

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          Goldwater was a strong supporter of environmental protection, saying in 1965:

          I feel very definitely that the [Nixon] administration is absolutely correct in cracking down on companies and corporations and municipalities that continue to pollute the nation’s air and water. While I am a great believer in the free competitive enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment. To this end, it is my belief that when pollution is found, it should be halted at the source, even if this requires stringent government action against important segments of our national economy.

          It was probably an outlier then too.

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      Republicans of the Early 60s were maybe not as evil, if only because that was at the tail end of the Party switch.

      Before that, conservatives and progressives were more spread between both parties.

      The Party Switch took something like 50-60 years, with Nixon’s Southern Strategy being the defining moment, and Reagan’s Moral Majority calcifying the status quo.

      Still, as late as the 1960 presidential election, things could have gone either way.