What are the ideological inconsistencies within the Democratic Party?

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Any other (new or not) contradictions?

The biggest inconsistency is that Democrats seem incapable of understanding the relationship between the public and private sector. The public sector is supposed to accomplish the existential tasks of promoting general welfare, insuring domestic tranquility, and provide for the common defense. Meanwhile, private corporations are designed almost exclusively to maximize profit and increase material resources.

Naturally, Democrats try to dump all of the existential social work on corporate America with counterproductive min wage laws, unemployment insurance taxes, employer healthcare mandates, pension laws, defense cuts (employment instability), etc etc. Then Democrats embark on a foolhardy strategy to command the economy with new spending programs and money supply mismanagement, most of which mimic deadweight economic loss because they do nothing for workers.

But for a brief moment in time, when Hoover was asleep at the switch, Democrats have been perpetually dazed and confused. They don't have anything to offer, unless you like divisive cultural warfare.

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As opposed to the Republicans, who don't want to have it done at all. Right.

Republicans have a problem optimizing the relationship between government and private markets, but they don't have a fundamental misunderstanding.

Furthermore, what Republican president has ever cut social spending? Perhaps they've succeeded in reducing the increase in social spending, but they've never cut real spending to my knowledge. It takes TEA Party levels of zealotry just to get a dialogue started about social reforms.

The imagined transgressions of cold-hearted Republicans pale in comparison to the things Democrats have done and actively support. Killing the biggest jobs program in the history of the US is a prime example.

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I hope to god you aren't referring to the Keystone XL Pipeline.

I hope to god you know I'm talking about the military

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Maybe the U.S. could start paying people to dig holes and fill them in again.

Even if that were an accurate portrayal of military productivity, how would it compare unfavorably to Welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, SNAP?

The military is an R&D factory, particularly for aerospace, and it secures global commerce. The military also trains healthcare professionals, logistics experts, and other valuable professions.