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s0nicfan posted...

1. There's a summary section at the link that gave me an idea of what to look for in the broader text and all I did was a few "ctrl+f" searches and scanning those sections. It really wasn't a lot of work. More importantly, though, I'm not justifying their vote against, just potentially clarifying. I just don't live in a cartoon world where 187 elected representatives are mustache twirling villains who do things for no reason other than to ruin the country. I think we would all be in a much better place when we identify and acknowledge why people support or reject something that, in social media summary, sounds like nothing but good things for all people. That rustles some feathers, though, because debating the relative benefits of specific clauses in a 1000 page bill is a lot harder than going "those people are evil because they don't like this bill as defined by a single sentence headline." It also means acknowledging that sometimes good bills may fail because one party (and yes, republicans do this plenty) shoves in a bunch of stuff that would never fly as a standalone bill into something that's "too big to fail". There's literally no reason to NOT call those cases out. More information can only benefit people who want to be informed on issues.

That didn't really address my observation - that (in my memory at least) you seem very quick to find rationales for Republicans objecting to Democratic legislation (I don't recall you ever doing the opposite)

2. I'm speculating based on my own assumption that at least some of the people voting against a domestic chip manufacturing bill have a reason to vote against it other than "I just hate america". That might not be the reason they voted against it at all, but if I didn't wonder what exactly someone might not like about the bill I wouldn't have found the bill itself nor read up on what exactly it does, either.

Beyond "I hate America", don't you want to address "stopping any Democratic legislation" as a motivation? I never put that forward, I was asking if you thought "opposition to DEI language" was the biggest. As Antifar has show it isn't (at publicly), what do you believe is the largest motivation for their opposition?