The Moonshot program was the largest, organized effort by the U.S. government to find cancer cures. Congress voted it down.

Even though this would be a win for all Americans – and humanity – it apparently did not outweigh the politics of making a Democrat look good. This is the definition of party over country.

I’m a doctor.So is my mother. When she got cancer, I realized how little that mattered.

Republicans have stated budget cuts need to be made with an ever-growing debt. But where was this attitude when tax cuts for the wealthy were on the table in 2017? They don’t have to look at patients in the eye and break the devastating news that they have cancer. They don’t have to treat cancers that block intestines or drown a patient’s lungs in fluid.

    • @Etterra@lemmy.world
      16•4 months ago

      This. Reagan in particular just lovedb nothing more than knocking the supports out from under bridges. Fucking old bastard.

    • @sparkle@lemm.eeCymraeg
      9•4 months ago

      The stuff passed during Nixon’s presidency was mostly not bad, because he had a progressive congress and knew it was good for his public image if he went along with their stuff (and took credit for their successes), but Nixon realized Southern Strategy, and his presidency perhaps marked the start of descent into incivility and absurdity in politics. He was a piece of shit in every regard imaginable, but he wasn’t an obstructionist afaik.

      Reagan is where policy took a SHARP dive, straight into the ground. He was the next step which was allowed by Nixon turning national politics into a rapid-fire shit-spewing competition.

      • @thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
        3•4 months ago

        I won’t necessarily speaking on policy, but more-so as a time-frame of when certain lines were crossed.

        With Nixon, the Nixon Goes to China moment could be argued was the point in time which ultimately lead to massive off-shoring/out-sourcing that gutted America’s manufacturing industries and set the middle-class on its downward spiral.

        Then there was his prolonging of the Vietnam War for his political benefit, at the cost of needless soldiers lives.

        Then there’s the whole Watergate fiasco, which directly led to the founding of Fox News.

        • @postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
          1•4 months ago

          Calling opening relations with China as a negative is a bad take.

          The companies that sold out the skeleton of the USA, by screwing the employees to pay shareholders and executives, are to blame for the current situation.

          Was the EPA also a negative move to you?

    • Stern
      4•4 months ago

      Reagan led the charge but there was also folks like Gingrich and Armey doing stuff like the Contract with America (Heritage Foundation endorsed) and pushing to never let the dems have a win, and always oppose whatever they do.

      I’m of the opinion that sunshine laws also fucked things up but that’s a whole other discussion.

      • @irreticent@lemmy.world
        2•4 months ago

        I’m of the opinion that sunshine laws also fucked things up but that’s a whole other discussion.

        I apologize for steering the conversation toward another discussion, but I’m unfamiliar with the Sunshine Laws so I did a quick search:

        “Sunshine laws are regulations requiring transparency and disclosure in government or business. Sunshine laws make meetings, records, votes, deliberations, and other official actions available for public observation, participation, and/or inspection. Sunshine laws also require government meetings to be held with sufficient advance notice and at times and places that are convenient and accessible to the public, with exceptions for emergency meetings.” (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sunshinelaws.asp, Sept. 2023)

        Again, I’m not familiar but, I’m not seeing a problem with transparency and advance notice to ensure transparency. What particular issues do you have with Sunshine Laws?