People who love cheap labor to a large degree fund this party. We may actually come eye-to-eye with the Ralph Nader types on public financing at some point. Strange bedfellows.
Buckeye McFrog: “Strange bedfellows.”
Actually, no. I’ve believed for some time that conservatives and liberals have common ground on many issues. The parties like to play us against each other, but both left and right generally oppose illegal alien amnesty (takes jobs from poor Americans), NSA spying on Americans, illegal searches, militarized police, drone strikes, acting like the world’s police, strong arming foreign governments, corporate welfare, bank bailouts, etc.
We disagree on some pretty serious social issues, like abortion and homosexual rights, but we actually have common cause against our out of control American government. I think a lot of politically moderate and socially liberal folks are aghast at recent events in the news. America looks like a police state these days. I’m not sure the left is entirely on board with the direction Obamao is taking things.
“Strange bedfellows.”
We had the same thing in Minnesota last year when the Legislature debated whether to have taxpayer funding for a new pro football stadium.
There was a strange but loud coalition of really liberal Dems and pretty staunch conservatives who teamed on the side opposing the stadium.
Each group had their own reasons - the libs wanted the money spent on social programs and the cons thought that the private sector should pay for it.
The bill passed because of another strange coalition - labor-backed Dems who thought the state should get jobs for the labor unions by building the new stadium and supposed pro-business Republicans who thought that our state had to have this stadium in order to attract and keep business.
It was definitely weird season at the Legislature.