What is your favorite democratism?

[exitseven]

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor

Democrats like to come up with clever names for bills or policies so they don't sound as bad as they really are. Many times the name is actually just the opposite of what the thing really is.

Build Back Better

Affordable Health Act

American Rescue Plan

Disinformation Bureau

For the People Act

Some other misleading idea

[Anonymous]

My favorite comes from Hillary. "Comprehensive plan"

Debate Moderator: What would you do to get control over illegal immigration?

Hillary: I sure wouldn't come up with something stupid like the Republicans, I'd come up with a comprehensive plan.

Translation: I have no clue how to solve this, but since this is being hosted by MSNBC
and their viewers have the IQ of fruit flies, I can pretty much say anything and they will believe it.

I don't know if this next one fits your criteria, but: "Cash for clunkers."

For those that don't know about it, Obama came up with this brilliant idea. In order to get clunkers off the streets, Obama would let you give it to the dealer and then help pay for your new car. It was like a few thousand bucks. The clunkers had to be destroyed. This meant that there weren't a lot of clunkers for sale for poor people who needed one to get to work. The poor got screwed and so did the tax payers. So your neighbor has a nice new car in the driveway, and you helped pay for it. Oh, and the program only costed $24,000 per clunker.

[exitseven]

Yes, I was working on my masters degree and I did a report on Cash For Clunkers and what a typical Obama disaster it was. The professor was a real liberal and did not appreciate it.
All it did was drive up the price of used cars.

[Opinion Owner]

I talked to a professor that was a conservative. He said he was the black sheep of the campus. All the liberals would attack him like a pack of hyenas, because he was a hunter. While in pack mode, they scolded him. But when it was one on one, they begged him for some of his famous elk sausage.

I watched a YouTube video that was an old news clip. The story was about Tata Motor company. (India)
They produced the cheapest car on Earth.

The Nano sold for $3,400. So on the news clip, this was the conversation:

News woman: Do you think Americans would buy them?
News man: No way. Americans would never buy a car under $20,000. (that clip was at least 15 years old, so adjust for inflation) What a pair of idiots.

Now, some could argue that the Nano might not meet up to our safety standards, but I don't think motorcycles are crash tested, either.

Obama could buy 7 Nanos for what ONE clunker cost the tax payers.

[exitseven]

Yes, I work in higher ed, first as an IT manager and then as a professor. I always feel like there is a target on my back.

[Opinion Owner]

Do You Think Conservatives Just Want To Live Simple Poor Lives While Having Meltdowns Over Abortions and Trans People? ↗

I posted the picture of Trump's house.

[Opinion Owner]

Thanks for the MHO. I'll steal you a Nano for Christmas. But I'll do it in California, because I think crime is now legal there.

[loves2learn]

I thought you were going to lighten up these politically charged questions. 🧐

[exitseven]

I did not think it was too chsrged. I was going for irony here.

[loves2learn]

I have been known to have such things go over my head. 🙈

[exitseven]

😂😂😂😂

[razelove]

I like the infrastructure spending. Though it is bipartisan, little to none of that money will make it into infrastructure. I had a job before, QA/QC supervisor. So much money got dumped into Louisiana after Katrina that we basically just went around getting paid a lot of money to make sure it wasn't getting grossly lost between the cracks. Like if a crew says they're doing recovery work here, check if people are working there, then do the same in another area.

Later working at water plants I got to see some of the bigger picture when we were still in a federal consent decree 2 decades after Katrina and losing hundreds of millions in that sweet sweet federal funding every year.

Between that, and Build Back Better we're going to see some young people working federal jobs/contracts in very nice cars, but little else.

[Exterminatore]

Yes they are masters of cognitive distortions.


My favorite is fetus. As in: it’s ok to murder your child in your womb, it’s just a fetus, just a clump of cells. Ignore that heart beat and those little hands and feet, ignore it can feel pain possibly as early as 8 weeks, it’s just a clump of cells.


Nativist is on other of my favorites. As in: “if you’re against illegal immigration, you’re a nativist”, except that’s a twisting the definition of the word. The majority of people do not believe native people deserve more rights and privileges than non native people, they believe CITIZENS should have rights and privileges under the law not ILLEGAL immigrants.

[Agagagagaga]

It amazes me how badly they want to give greater privileges and services to illegal immigrants than native citizens. When I suggest that native citizens should be prioritized they are just baffled at the very idea.

[Exterminatore]

Amazing isn’t it? I think illegals should have no rights or privileges but to leave.

[Oigit]

Disinformation Bureau because it can very much be the worse out them all. It wouldn't matter if it was a GOP idea. Because to me the idea screams government regulating free speech and the thought control that comes with it.

[exitseven]

It was not a GOP idea and it looks like it is going to be scrapped,

[KostasKouvalis]

UPDATE: For those of you who don't know what "democratism" means, it's when Democrats pass a bill, and change its name to make it seem as not as bad. So I'm not asking you, what your favorite Democract Bill is, but which bill's name you like best?

"American Rescue Plan"
It sounds like something good, but if the Democrats did it, it probably isn't.

[DaveToo]

Each of those you've listed is an excellent example of how we are to deal with the plight of ourselves and others. Your last choice proves that "conservatives" don't give a rat's ass about others.

[exitseven]

No but if you are going to rip off a large portion of the population at least do not insult their intelligence.

[DaveToo]

You mean like Trump and his cohorts did? Gotcha.

[exitseven]

I don't remember paying 6 bucks a gallon for heating oil when Trump was in office. I also felt safe enough to not have to buy firearms for protection.

[DaveToo]

So let's see, 6 bucks for heating oil only happened when Trump's good buddy, Putin, invaded Ukraine, causing the world, or most of it, to put sanctions on Russia, and consequently, upset the delicate balancing act we have been dealing with for foreign oil. If you felt safe while white supremacists were gathering military-style assault weapons, you were paying attention to the mass murders taking place.

[Agagagagaga]

@DaveToo Jen, is that you? I thought you were at MSNBC now?

[exitseven]

@DaveToo It is widely known that the cost of petroleum products started to rise the day Biden took office and not when Putin invaded Ukraine. Biden tried to blame Putin for the spike in fuel but even the fake news could not provide enough cover to hide that big lie.

[Dargil]

"We're from the Government. We're here to help you!"
Grab your guns and run.

[exitseven]

yes, that is always a good one no matter who is in the White House.

[Dargil]

I will agree that it is Governmentism.

[Anonymous]

New Green Deal.
Never heard a us politician explain what it entailed just that it had green in it...

[exitseven]

good one. It in neither green or a deal

[Opinion Owner]

Just lies like "yes we can". No you couldn't

[Aerissa_Jade]

One thing they are good at, is giving nice names to shit programs.

[lightbulb27]

"Patriot Act"
"Federal Reserve"

[Anonymous]

The notion that they are the party of the common man. This is what democrats fail to understand. And why many people are Republicans. We despise parasites! If the democratic party was actually for the middle class they would attract a lot of voters that have been forced to vote republican.

[exitseven]

Democrats use to be the party of the working class. Now they are the party of the non-working class.

[RolandCuthbert]

You mean like "Make America Great Again"?

Citizens United?

Stop the Steal?

I mean, you trumpturds have slogans that are outright lies.

[exitseven]

Trump did make America Great again, at least for a few years.
Citizens United- It was way more united than it is now.
Stop The steal- not even a question.

[RolandCuthbert]

That's why we had the biggest debt in the history of this nation. That's why Americans are at each other's throats. That's why we can't even trust our own electoral process. That's why many Americans no longer trust fact, objective truth or rational thinking.

And that's why we are not the edge of losing our democracy. And the funny thing is that is your goal, and you are totally disingenuous about it.

[exitseven]

yes, I agree, Biden is the worst president we ever had.

[genericname85]

"new world order" probably xD it's almost like a slap in the face who ever doubted comspiracy theories.

[Jltakk]

Their ability to propagandize and mobilize a hateful mob with groupthink is effective. Their majority control of the media and thus control of the narrative that sheeple watch and consume as truth isn't my favorite thing about them, but its the first thing that comes to mind.

[BillyBalls]

I am partial to "The Ministry Of Truth"!!!

It's a bit Orwellian!!!

[Kabluie]

Triple B was probably the best one of that list.

AHA had the stain of 'if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor'. Good idea in a nutshell but the roll out was bad.

[Bratsondanielle]

Lol the ministry of truth would score high with me but honestly I always say let's go Brandon

[NorthwestRider]

You know that Obamacare is a Republican Healthcare system right 😂

[exitseven]

yes, Mitt Romney came up with this idea. It was called Romneycare. It was not as restrictive and I do not think there was a mandate.

[msc545]

I like the Affordable Health Care Act since that one actually works

[exitseven]

Really? It did not do anything to make healthcare more affordable. Everything got more expensive. The premiums and the copays went up and things that were covered before were no longer covered. It was just the opposite.

[msc545]

Sorry, but as you know, I work in healthcare. Everything you said is false.

[exitseven]

@msc545 My wife works in healthcre too and she and all her co-workers would disagree. Also I know just from my own personal experiences.

[msc545]

Ok...

[jimmy2]

They do nothing but lie, cheat, baby killers, don't dear how you like her for President, they are fools, drama dangerous and nothing for anyone but themselves

[888theGreat]

Did you see Gag take my Democrats question down?

[exitseven]

no, I did not. Was it disinformation?
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