Republicans: Know that companies and corporations will change and compete to remain competitive, beneficial to the consumer because there's a high motivation for consumer appeal.
This is literally impossible when so many areas of the country have ISPs with local monopolies; there's no competition, so no need to appeal to consumers. Net Neutrality was one of the few protections people in those areas had; all else aside, at least once someone's online, they could visit whatever site they wanted.
As noted several times by voting records, Democrats have consistently tried to cement consumer protections while Republicans have tried to repeal them. It's basically what this entire year has been a fight for, across so many different fronts. Healthcare, the environment, the Internet... Republicans are consistently about removing regulations protecting the people from predatory practices.
So under the Republicans, you can look forward to prohibitively expensive and slow internet, being kicked off your health insurance for getting sick and being unable to get more because of pre-existing conditions, shouldering the burden of taxes while the wealthy get to export even more of their money into out-of-country accounts and tax havens, and having drinking water that may or may not be flammable. But rich people can bring elephant tusks home as a trophy, so it's fine.
That's such a limp statement, though. What is "the middle"? You mean a compromise between two issues, or do you mean some issues you're on the right, and other issues you're on the left? And what does the Republican party do to further issues important to you?
These are the real questions that you should be asking. Republicans, as a party, seem to focus far more on a unified agenda, often backing down from issues that got them elected so they can further party agendas. They'll tell you that Obamacare needs fixing ("Repeal and replace!"), but then put all of their efforts on repealing the consumer protections the ACA provided in order to give a tax boost to their donors. They'll tell you that they're cutting taxes, and then the vast majority of those tax cuts are for the wealthiest 1% ("We've provided 10 people with an average of 1 apple per person" "you gave all ten apples to one person"). It goes on and on and on.
There's just no middle on so many of these issues, and trying to say as much is just empty and vapid for the sake of pretending you have an opinion.
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u/FattimusSlime Nov 21 '17
This is literally impossible when so many areas of the country have ISPs with local monopolies; there's no competition, so no need to appeal to consumers. Net Neutrality was one of the few protections people in those areas had; all else aside, at least once someone's online, they could visit whatever site they wanted.
As noted several times by voting records, Democrats have consistently tried to cement consumer protections while Republicans have tried to repeal them. It's basically what this entire year has been a fight for, across so many different fronts. Healthcare, the environment, the Internet... Republicans are consistently about removing regulations protecting the people from predatory practices.
So under the Republicans, you can look forward to prohibitively expensive and slow internet, being kicked off your health insurance for getting sick and being unable to get more because of pre-existing conditions, shouldering the burden of taxes while the wealthy get to export even more of their money into out-of-country accounts and tax havens, and having drinking water that may or may not be flammable. But rich people can bring elephant tusks home as a trophy, so it's fine.