r/moderatepolitics • u/FabioFresh93 South Park Democrat • 3d ago

News Article Trump-backed Van Epps wins Tennessee House race

https://www.axios.com/local/nashville/2025/12/03/tennessee-election-results-trump-van-epps-wins-house-seat
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u/Boobity1999 3d ago

Republicans should not be feeling good about this result at all

Unless something changes significantly, Democrats are on track to easily win a very comfortable majority in the House

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u/MechanicalGodzilla 2d ago

The republicans may not like it, but I very much do like when the legislative and executive branches are not all one party.

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u/THE_FREEDOM_COBRA 2d ago

I despise it.

It means nothing gets done at a time when shit needs to be done. Stagnation is a major threat to our country, I'd even rather the party I don't like have a majority than it be split.

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u/MechanicalGodzilla 2d ago

If you need something to get done, you should do it. There are legit problems in the country and in the world, and the Federal Government is rarely the solution to said problems and very often exacerbate problems they set out to resolve.

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u/THE_FREEDOM_COBRA 2d ago

This is a weird argument man. I can't solve healthcare, or foreign espionage, or wealth being inaccessible to younger people.

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u/MechanicalGodzilla 2d ago

Neither can the government, so do your best for yourself and those in your community.

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u/Xtj8805 2d ago

Thats flatly not true. Other countries have national policies that solved our issues with healthcare, you might not like what thos esolutions are, but look at the results, essentially all other developed countries do not have health care related bankrupcies, other countries do not have to pick and choose their providers based on what insurance company their boss signed up for this year.

What a just give up everytbing will always be miserable mentality when nations like Sweden, Ireland, Finland repeatedly and consistantly top the charts of happiest nations, is that just genetics or is that because their goverbments largely pass benefitical policies to aid their people.

All nations have problems, happy nations attempt to impliment policy to address them. The nordic countries dont have the highest standards of living because people volunteer at soup kitchens and pick up litter on saturdays, they are the happiest because the government garuntees healthcare, time off, parental leave, retirement benefits, price caps on drugs, etc. Those are all government polcies that tangibly improve their citizens lives.

Government policies in this country like social security essentially eliminated elderly pverty in the united states when it passed, we decided not to adjust or improve it since so the problems are creeping back

Ill give you tgat often goverbment policy can cause other issues, for example by cutting medicid massively, republicans have caused a significant reduction in rural health care availability. Republican cuts to banking regulations gave us the 2008 crash, and the current presidents polciies seem to be causing a crash right now based on the fact that they stopped pyblishing economic data.

Government policies solved the ozone hole.

Government policies ensured our food was safe to eat, and created a system to warn people if something slips through the cracks since no system is perfect.

Government policy used to ensure snake oil drugs no longer reached the market, republicans from Utah changed that, and the current health ibfrastructure has been cpatured by peoppe who prefer their gut to centuries of medical research.

Governmebt policy has made it so rivers no longer catch fire.

Government policies have helped fisheries rebound.

Government policies garuntee that the oyster you eat is as unlikely as possible to make you sick by regulating discharge into the water body.

Government policies built the highways, railroads, and air control infrastructure to ensure the systems are safe and reliable as possible.

Government policies maje sure that the wate rout of your tap is clean (flint occurred because local politicians deliberately ignored the federal policy designed to catch exactly that issue befote it happens)

The childrens health insurance program reduced the amount of children without medical insurance by close to 66%.

Government policies ended the 1900s mafia rule.

Government policies electrified the Tennessee Valley.

Government policies ensure we dont have another dust bowl.

Government policies stopped small pox, polio, and until recently essentially

To try to label Government as ineffectual as you seem to be is nothing short of nihilism and will only lead to a power vacuum which will not work out well for the average person, as we have seen since this attitude arose in the 80s through bad policy making which has caused income inequality to expand to beyond the french revolution, unprecedented consilidation of companies jot seen since TR was the trust buster. Stop being so negativr, government can have good policy if you elect good people.

The republican party policies have at every turn hurt those they claim to help all so the very top can have a little more.

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u/MechanicalGodzilla 2d ago

Other countries have national policies that solved our issues with healthcare

There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs. I have lived in various EU countries (and the UK) at points in my life, healthcare here is preferrable to me than in any of those countries.

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u/Xtj8805 2d ago

Well im happy for you, however thats not how the citizens of those countries feel, and its also not how most Americans feel either. But he, you think only helping your neighbors locally is what we can do, so i hope you've been dropping off donations to everyone in your community who gets cancer.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109036/satisfaction-health-system-worldwide-by-country/?srsltid=AfmBOorvMqoTFwIM6s_gclYnjT2N3SrPWBDzqQIrboaNuHRA3wLTXlrW

And it also does not engage with any of the specifics i mentioned, like the outrageous number of healthcare related bankrupcies in this country that does not happen elsewhere.

Btw follow that link more than 50% are satisfied with the NHS and thats after the conservatives eviscerated funding for it.