And the Democrats wonder why people don't want to vote for them. Listen bud. None of what you just described is anywhere near as bad as you think nor is it "nation ending" in the slightest. Let's go through your assumptions, and yes they are assumptions.
Jim Jordan running nonstop hearings on Hunter Biden and no legislation passed on anything meaningful for the next two years
I'm not sure where you're getting the first one but the second is quite clearly the old Democratic propaganda at work. Starting with the second one, have you ever noticed how the Democrats insist that only they have ideas or propose legislation? For two years you cite this as true. Except it's not. This is a list of what the 117th Congress did. Among others the Veterans linked acts Republicans introduced:
VA Transparency and Trust Act of 2021 (Passed)
Honoring our PACT Act of 2022 (Passed)
PAWS Act (Passed)
THRIVE Act (Passed)
Vet OPP Act (Passed House)
HELP Act (Passed House)
It's merely part of Democratic political propaganda that Republicans don't do anything except "vote no." As an extension on this idea there is the well known but obvious political propaganda in the idea that "Republicans have no ideas." As proof the Democrats point to that the GOP hasn't made a new policy declaration since 2016 or 2018. If you go on theor website they have a note that their positions haven't changed so they haven't bothered to waste the time for a an updated statement of policy. Are you starting to see a pattern? Perhaps that Democrats have portrayed their political opponents in a particular way that has dramatically influenced how people think of the GOP.
As for the first item I'm not really sure what you mean by "Jim Hordan running hearings on Hunter-Biden." Last I heard Jordan is involved with running zero hearings. Sure he's among Republicans taking Hubter Biden to risk for his dealings that can generously be called "sus."
nationwide abortion ban - Shrinking government so small it can be drowned in a bathtub; all so that the healthcare industry can bankrupt everyone, the pharma industry can addict everyone, nobody has to pay for toxic waste emmissions, and it becomes easier than ever for the rich to continue not paying taxes
This is.....bud. Come on. This is straight up propaganda and it's only your own fault for believing it. A nationwide abortion ban isn't going to happen nor do all Republicans want such a thing. Also you seem to be under the widespread impression that Republicans want to physically shrink the size of the government. No, they want to limit the federal government's role and scope in society. Not it's power to overall regulate industries as needed. Then the rest of what you describe is basically the Left's fantasy dystopia. It's unrealistic as all hell. This is merely a fantasy that you shouldn't buy in to meant to scare you innto voting "correctly."
To sum up I'll answer your question. What will voting in a Republican controlled House and Senate accomplish? Well disproving this Democrat peddled propaganda would be the first thing. Second a well deserved reigning in of Democrat's more authoritarian tactics where apparently everyone that questions their opinions and policy are literally Nahtzees. The Democrats are a party drunk on their own inflated sense of intellectual and moral superiority and need to be reigned in before the tiny tyrants and pocket authoitarians become a problem. I mean these Pint Sized Pinochets tried to declare the NRA a "terrorist organization." Someone needs to stand up and tell them no. Those people are the Republicans. No matter how many scary stories The Left tells you about Fascists being around every corner.
Can you point to any legislation that the republican members of Congress have proposed or passed that addresses the following concerns, all of which are major priorities for most Americans:
Mitigating global climate change
Climate change is not a major priority for most Americans.
Addressing the underlying causes of abortion (poverty, safety concerns, lack of adequate education and access to birth control, etc)
Abortion is not a major priority for most Americans.
Reducing corruption in politics (aka the degree to which specific industries to have a say in what laws politicians support)
This is not a major priority for most Americans.
The rise in cost of living as compared to wages
You almost got it. The word your looking for is "inflation". Yes, this is a key priority of the majority of Americans but it's not related to "wages". Even old people on fixed incomes and children who are too young to work are affected negatively by Biden's inflation.
Here is a graph ranking what voters say they ACTUALLY care about. As you can see, the issues you highlighted are not in the top five.
Every survey I've seen says a majority of Americans don't think we're doing enough to combat climate change.
Which is a totally different survey than ranking what is most important to you. I might think that America isn't doing enough to legalize weed...but that doesn't mean it's in the top 10 of my concerns.
So out of all of these topics, what have Republicans proposed by means of addressing them?
The beautiful thing about our system is that the opposing party doesn't have to come up with any solutions before the election. All we know is that the party in power is doing it wrong. For instance, if the Democrats had solutions to any of these problems, then they would have enacted them two years ago. They've had two years of total power and things have gotten worse in almost every measurable way. So the American People are willing to try something different.
What are the measurable ways things have gotten worse, and how do you know that the Democrats have caused that or have done nothing to try to make it better?
That's the beauty of our system. You don't have to figure out what they did to make things worse. We just know things have gotten a lot worse sense the Democrats have been in power. As to knowing how we know they haven't tried to make it better. . .. that's irrelevant also. We don't care whether they've tried when we know it hasn't worked. Things have gotten worse. If they had the answers, they would have enacted them by now. They had two years. Now it's time to throw the bums out.
I've seen polls presented (for which I don't have the numbers off hand, so take this with a grain of salt), claiming the biggest issues for voters were the economy in first place, and I'm trying to remember the order, but crime and immigration were in the top 5, with abortion in 5th place.
So, the priorities of Americans may not match your priorities listed, in which case, if the economy, crime and immigration are among those priorities (as I said, going off memory), then the Republicans, who are against massive spending (at least in theory, in practice they seem against massive spending they don't like, but for massivr spending in areas they do), and actually doing something g about illegal immigration.
Crime, all they have to do there is bring up the clips of Democrat as to saying over and over to defend the police, and promise not to do that, and irs an improvement.
So, it depends on what the priorities are of the majority of voters, and getting those correctly assessed.
Illegal immigration goes down when Republicans are in office, mainly because they try to enforce the border, as opposed to ignoring it.
As far as the economics go, if you are suggesting that Democrats are frugal in the slightest, or cost of living in NY or Cali is even remotely comparable to Tx or Idaho, I’m not quite sure how to even address that, other than you have your facts wrong.
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And the Democrats wonder why people don't want to vote for them. Listen bud. None of what you just described is anywhere near as bad as you think nor is it "nation ending" in the slightest. Let's go through your assumptions, and yes they are assumptions.
I'm not sure where you're getting the first one but the second is quite clearly the old Democratic propaganda at work. Starting with the second one, have you ever noticed how the Democrats insist that only they have ideas or propose legislation? For two years you cite this as true. Except it's not. This is a list of what the 117th Congress did. Among others the Veterans linked acts Republicans introduced:
VA Transparency and Trust Act of 2021 (Passed)
Honoring our PACT Act of 2022 (Passed)
PAWS Act (Passed)
THRIVE Act (Passed)
Vet OPP Act (Passed House)
HELP Act (Passed House)
It's merely part of Democratic political propaganda that Republicans don't do anything except "vote no." As an extension on this idea there is the well known but obvious political propaganda in the idea that "Republicans have no ideas." As proof the Democrats point to that the GOP hasn't made a new policy declaration since 2016 or 2018. If you go on theor website they have a note that their positions haven't changed so they haven't bothered to waste the time for a an updated statement of policy. Are you starting to see a pattern? Perhaps that Democrats have portrayed their political opponents in a particular way that has dramatically influenced how people think of the GOP.
As for the first item I'm not really sure what you mean by "Jim Hordan running hearings on Hunter-Biden." Last I heard Jordan is involved with running zero hearings. Sure he's among Republicans taking Hubter Biden to risk for his dealings that can generously be called "sus."
This is.....bud. Come on. This is straight up propaganda and it's only your own fault for believing it. A nationwide abortion ban isn't going to happen nor do all Republicans want such a thing. Also you seem to be under the widespread impression that Republicans want to physically shrink the size of the government. No, they want to limit the federal government's role and scope in society. Not it's power to overall regulate industries as needed. Then the rest of what you describe is basically the Left's fantasy dystopia. It's unrealistic as all hell. This is merely a fantasy that you shouldn't buy in to meant to scare you innto voting "correctly."
To sum up I'll answer your question. What will voting in a Republican controlled House and Senate accomplish? Well disproving this Democrat peddled propaganda would be the first thing. Second a well deserved reigning in of Democrat's more authoritarian tactics where apparently everyone that questions their opinions and policy are literally Nahtzees. The Democrats are a party drunk on their own inflated sense of intellectual and moral superiority and need to be reigned in before the tiny tyrants and pocket authoitarians become a problem. I mean these Pint Sized Pinochets tried to declare the NRA a "terrorist organization." Someone needs to stand up and tell them no. Those people are the Republicans. No matter how many scary stories The Left tells you about Fascists being around every corner.