time for a tune-up
There's a van in my neighborhood with a bumper sticker that says "Government is like a car -- an (R) makes it go backward, a (D) makes it go forward."
I can buy the analogy, sort of. But if our government's like a car, it's more like an old rusty beater you bought off the junkyard lot because you needed something to get to your minimum-wage job. When (R) is engaged, it's not super effective at getting you where you want to go, plus it makes a lot of loud, annoying noises and mostly pisses you off. But as soon as you shift to (D), half the parts decide they don't want to work with the other half, the whole thing stops running, and the only way to get it started again is to throw money at it.
I can buy the analogy, sort of. But if our government's like a car, it's more like an old rusty beater you bought off the junkyard lot because you needed something to get to your minimum-wage job. When (R) is engaged, it's not super effective at getting you where you want to go, plus it makes a lot of loud, annoying noises and mostly pisses you off. But as soon as you shift to (D), half the parts decide they don't want to work with the other half, the whole thing stops running, and the only way to get it started again is to throw money at it.