I hate politics and don't want a debate but I have a question

My family is very, very Republican, and I remember right after Obama got elected they couldn't believe how dumb Obama was being by doing the stimulus packages to save all those businesses..
But now trump's sending everyone checks.
They love trump and everything that guy does is right to them, so they're all "oh yes. Trumps doing the right thing by sending ebetyone checks."
Isn't this basically the same damn thing as what Obama did? Except it's going to people instead of businesses.
Also, a aren't republicans the ones who like big businesses?
I'm confused.

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MistyCee

You can get in the weeds talking about philosophies and the like, but Trump, like Obama, is (IMO finally and why he's doing it is another topic entirely) trying to do his job and serve the country as a whole, much like Obama did.

Our country and economy is neither exclusively privately capitalist nor socialist, and imo, the role of government is in part, to protect us both from external threats and from ourselves.

Trump, and McConnell, neither of whom I have much love for, like Obama, and countless others in our country's history like FDR, seem to be trying to reevaluate political ideologies to adapt to current realities.

We can debate whether checks, be they tax rebates or handouts are the appropriate measures for government to take, but as long as most of us agree that the government should do something and not nothing in the face of a crisis, there's hope.

Look at it this way. Reagan said government is the problem, and not the solution. But he was really ONLY talking with respect to a particular circumstance. Back in the day, he had no problem with the New Deal.

boklenholley7 · F

@MistyCee hmm interesting perspective. Thank you for commenting.