• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    One person blocking improvement the other does something bad is both sides bad. Using all caps doesn’t change that.

    Then why did oil production go up under him?

    There is a difference between pumping oil from existing wells and wrecking new natural habitats for more oil.

    Clean Air Act

    Johnson, Democrat 1963. Too long ago to be relevant which is why I mentioned something newer.

    Biden championed the crime bill in the 80s that led to mass incarceration.

    ??? Stopping crime is right wing?

    We went from rivers so polluted that they caught fire and acid rain dissolving all public art to mostly clean rivers and air. If it was a ratchet we would have continued to go backwards. We would have gone from no gay marriage to criminalized. We would have gone from one river on fire to most rivers on fire. We would have gone from BLM back to segregation. The Ratchet Meme is a lie.

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      4 hours ago

      Johnson, Democrat 1963. Too long ago to be relevant which is why I mentioned something newer.

      I could keep going, but I just don’t have the time to keep going over nine administrations worth of legislation, only for you to say, “nuh-uh, here’s a single piece of legislation a Democrat passed once.”

      ??? Stopping crime is right wing?

      If you don’t even know about the racist crime bills of the 80s and 90s then I shouldn’t continue this conversation. There are clearly large gaps in your knowledge regarding recent American history. It’s not my place to fill those gaps, but I also shouldn’t be berating you for them. Good luck.

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        2 hours ago

        You are directing the conversation to anything other than the argument that the ratchet meme is a lie.

        You picked Nixon earlier. If it was non stop right wing movement from 1974 with Democrats doing nothing we’d be back at segregation and rivers on fire.

        American voters put the right wing in power in all branches of the government. They are the ones turning back the progress that Democrats achieved. The knob is going back and forth. It’s not a ratchet.

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          1 hour ago

          I have given you multiple examples of the Ratchet Effect in American politics, but you lack the basic background to engage with them properly. You should start by looking into the Crime Bills of 1984 and 1994. Good luck.