09-13-2018, 09:12 PM
(09-13-2018, 08:37 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(09-13-2018, 08:06 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Big mouth and only half a brain? That sounds like... Donald Trump.
I honor your work ethic. Your politics are horrible.
I have had a bad back all my life, and if I had had a better one I might have been more effective at raw labor, with which if one uses one's mind becomes very skilled labor that pays well. A healthy society fosters and rewards competence. I have no problem with welfare-to-work so long as it leads people into better lives while getting them off the dole. Cheap labor usually shows why it is cheap... and low wages encourage gold-bricking.
Yep, that sounds like Trump when he's fighting or fucking around with the liberals, the liberal media and the liberal base. Right now, he's primarily speaking to Democratic voters who weren't/ aren't happy with the direction of the Democratic party. Evidently, the voters weren't happy about the party being moved more in your direction vs the direction the Republican voters have been moving and intend to continue moving with or without the consent of blue America and Blue America itself. Has the Democratic party been the same since Obama stooped low and used the race card during the 2008 primary? The American right doesn't care about skin tones and gender as much as the liberals.
People are often discovering that the direction of the Republican party is unconscionable -- mirror-image Marxism, recognizing that capitalism is cruel, corrupt, and inequitable and then praising capitalism to the extent that it is cruel, corrupt, and inequitable -- and wanting it to be more so if isn't enough so for the tastes of those best described as mirror-image Marxists?
I did not see Barack Obama playing any race card. If anything, he may have been too moderate on poverty. Maybe that was for 2011 and 2012 after stopping the bleeding in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. He backed the banks, which FDR did and Hoover couldn't.
The American Right doesn't care about skin color? Some parts are profoundly racist, but it is safe to say that the rest is more concerned about maintaining and intensifying class privilege until America becomes a pure plutocracy. You know how that goes -- the wealth of a few is a pretext for unbridled indulgence, but a horrible burden for anyone else.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.