One issue they could grab easily: veteran and active duty mental health. I would like to see some form of mandatory therapy sessions for them after incidents and periodically. Why mandatory? Because people will go and no one can shame anyone for that.
That would require them actually caring about veterans and the military, which they don’t. They say they do and hype it all up about supporting the troops and then when it comes down to actually assign any sort of legislation to do so they always turn the other way.
And the weird part is that it makes no sense. They have the political capital to make more laws protecting vets. Voters love helping vets. It’s a win-win that neither side takes up. There is a huge opportunity here. And then they complain not enough people are enlisting.
That would involve boosting government programs, which they’ve built a whole ideological and propaganda edifice against because that’s money that could go to corporations. Anyone who does something like this leaves himself open to attacks from the right. There really isn’t a lot that Republicans could run on anymore, they’re pretty much locked into their strategy of populism in service of wealthy interests.
One issue they could grab easily: veteran and active duty mental health. I would like to see some form of mandatory therapy sessions for them after incidents and periodically. Why mandatory? Because people will go and no one can shame anyone for that.
That would require them actually caring about veterans and the military, which they don’t. They say they do and hype it all up about supporting the troops and then when it comes down to actually assign any sort of legislation to do so they always turn the other way.
And the weird part is that it makes no sense. They have the political capital to make more laws protecting vets. Voters love helping vets. It’s a win-win that neither side takes up. There is a huge opportunity here. And then they complain not enough people are enlisting.
Ah, but they’re doctrinally opposed to helping poor people.
That would involve boosting government programs, which they’ve built a whole ideological and propaganda edifice against because that’s money that could go to corporations. Anyone who does something like this leaves himself open to attacks from the right. There really isn’t a lot that Republicans could run on anymore, they’re pretty much locked into their strategy of populism in service of wealthy interests.