In USA politics, history shows that the details in party platforms are often not something that the majority of voters actually do care about because most voters are not even very well educated about said details.
That's correct. If Harris says she'll do something to help the housing crisis then I'm basically happy with that. But I'd like to take it a little deeper by asking how. So she says she'll have 3 million new homes built in her first term. OK, that sounds good. But...maybe a little more? So she says the government will partner with builders to ensure that they are built. That's good - they'll encourage builders by some means to build on land that will be either acquired or released by either federal or state governments.
Do I need to go any deeper? Do I need to know how tax incentives to builders will work? How much they'll be depending on where the houses are built? What size houses they'll be? Is the infrastructure included in the costings? I mean, there are literally dozens of questions I could ask, but do I need to get that deep in the weeds on one single aspect of the election? From what I've been told, that box gets a tick. If the GOP wants me to change that to a cross then they have to do the work to persuade me that it's a bad idea.
Now imagine the enormous complexity involved in supporting the Ukraine. Is it even possible in the time before the election that every single detail could be explained to the satisfaction of everyone who wanted to know? At this stage, that's as much as I need to know. You're going to support them? Then that box is ticked.
I'm sure that this is the way that most people who are actually interested in actual policies view the election. Give me the basics, fill in some details and at some point I'll get to a point where I'll tick a box. It's then up to the opposition to change my mind.
Now let's compare that with what Trump has just talked about. He's going to deport 20,000 legal immigrants from Ohio. Why? How? He doesn't say, probably because he doesn't know. So if he doesn't know and I don't know then that box gets a cross. And he's going to deport 11
million immigrants from the US next year. From where? To where? How? With the approval of what countries? Using camps? The army? Is he going to fly them? Ship them? By road into Mexico and leave them there? Zero details. So that box gets a cross.
Then he says he's going to drop energy prices by 50%. Fifty? Wow, well I'll need some detail on that for sure. But...nothing.
And that's the way it works. Tell us what you want to do and give us some basic details on how you are going to do it.
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