Talk:Belief challenges/Party Equivalence

Some items to research, from this discussion:

• Obama has killed more civilians with drone strikes than bush
• Under Hillary the state department made sure Haiti kept its minimum wage at 31 cents
  • Snopes says "It was a concerted effort on the part of Haitian elites, factory owners, free trade proponents, U.S. politicians, economists, and American companies that kept the minimum wage so low, and to lay the blame squarely at the feet of any sitting Secretary of State would be an incomplete assessment, and thus inaccurate."
  • Politifact says "the cables do not contain conclusive evidence that the State Department actively pressured Haiti to block the increase nor do they prove that Clinton personally played a role."

These seem to apply at least as much to Republicans as to Democrats, but further research wouldn't hurt:

• repealing Glass-Steagall
  • This was largely a GOP project -- the repeal is formally known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and Gramm, Leach, and Bliley were all Republicans.
  • "During debate in the House of Representatives, Rep. John Dingell (Democrat of Michigan) argued that the bill would result in banks becoming "too big to fail." Dingell further argued that this would necessarily result in a bailout by the Federal Government." (Wikipedia
  • No Republicans are known to have opposed it.
• harsh sentencing laws
• NAFTA
• TPP
• DOMA (Republicans wanted something worse)
• ACA (If it's bad, what Republicans wanted was worse)
• expanding the NSA
• Bush tax cuts (Obama did let some expire, too)
• constant wars
• support for Saudi Arabia
• support for Israel expansionism, killing, etc.
• welfare reform under Bill (GOP pushed heavily for this)
• opposition to BLM
• money from financial industry (they support everyone so they can always get their phone calls returned regardless of who wins)
• war on drugs
• fracking