But I’m not the one making the claim of correlation or causation. I have no burden of proof here. I’m saying charts like that are misleading, incomplete, and generally a tool of decisiveness in response to your presenting a chart as evidence of correlation or causation.
Now you are leading me down the road of pure speculation. The only way to actually determine that would be to have a flat economy for 16 years during which time each party traded power for 8 of those years and then agreed not to obstruct the others efforts. Then we would repeat the experiment over a longer timeline to see if there are trends. if you could do that then we could see if one side or the other really does what they claim. Of course, that’s all an impossible situation since the question itself is meaningless.
How is post facto prognostication in any way relevant? This is just speculative Monday morning armchair quarterbacking.
All that quote does is repeat the same old tired Rebs would do this and Dems would do that partisan crud.
Instead of charts and sales pitches, why not look at the actual facts of the situation by asking this question. If Republicans and Democrats really are what we popularly paint them to be, why did California voters ban same sex marriage only to have the Supreme Court step in to rule that such restriction violated the states constitution. Why did California voters then pass Prop 8 amending that states constitution to make same sex marriages illegal? This lead to the United States Supreme Court (primarily Republican appointees) deciding Hollingsworth v. Perry which struck down prop 8.
California has a Democratic controlled house and senate. The people of California are primarily Democrats. So, if Democrats are gay friendly, and California the pro LGBT state why are the facts so different from the sales pitch? If voting worked, how did that state do all of this to the LGBT community?
What about marijuana? Again, California has a very liberal sales pitch yet time and time again, the decriminalization of the drug has failed in that state. Then there is Colorado where Republicans have generally held control of state-wide offices and the state legislature since the 1960s* They passed laws making the plant legal. Yet aren’t Republicans anti-pot?
That sales pitches don’t match the reality. Perhaps partisanship is a type of mental illness.
