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Winning Position: Democrats'
The Democrats argue that if Republicans "get their way," the following will occur: by giving tax breaks to the wealthy and free reign to capitalism, instead of "trickle-down economics" producing more jobs, rich fat cats will abuse their power and step on the little people to buy themselves outrageous things and send the economy into a downward spiral. We'll spend too much on weapons and war and destroy the environment. By keeping rights away from gays, we create a civil rights issue like that of race in the 60s, and will appear backwards and opressive compared to many other forward-thinking nations.
The Republicans arue that if Democrats "get their way," the following will occur: by allowing the government to grow, it will eventually take over and stick it's nose into people's everyday business, like Big Brother. By spending foolishly on education and non-existent environmental problems instead of defense, we will appear weak and be destroyed by outside forces. By taxing the wealthy, they will refuse to produce jobs (they'll need to hoard just to maintain their current lifestyle) and the economy will tank. By giving rights to the gays, people will stop getting married as a result of disillusionment with what marriage means, and begin having children out of wedlock in record numbers.
Which of these do you believe is more likely to actually occur? Has one of them occurred already? Which set of arguments should we be more realistically concerned with? Do both have merits? Are these reasonable summaries of what Democrats and Republicans ostensibly worry about? Fire on up! ; )