Who Can Beat Trump?

[Eric the Green]

(09-20-2018, 01:07 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(09-19-2018, 07:19 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Blue is only a color on a network TV map on election day for any state that votes Democratic, whether those Democrats are your traditional ones or not. These days, judges are being appointed by Republicans who will take away our rights to vote, speak, demonstrate, strike, have a union, have a decent environment, have rights as consumers, have rights as workers, love whom we wish without restrictions.

Democrats (all blues) don't want communism or dictatorship, and they don't want rule by bosses. You on the red side want rule by bosses. 

When the blues finally take power again after 40 years of abject regression, we will put back the assault weapons ban and other reasonable gun controls. We will raise taxes on the wealthy. We will cut unnecessary spending, especially on war, but in all areas, and balance the budget. We will require energy and car companies and all industries to put out products that do not harm the environment and the climate we depend on. We will ensure net neutrality. We will protect and encourage unions and consumer rights. We will prevent the banking speculators from ruining our economy, and put financial criminals in jail. We will enforce and extend anti-trust laws and prevent big mergers not in the peoples' interest. We will stop unnecessary oil wars. We will protect women's rights and LBGTQ rights and make sure all qualified citizens can vote. We will restore real democracy from the moneyed interests and the gerrymanders. We will make sure police respect black lives, and correct abuses in the criminal justice system that put too many innocent people in prison. We will protect social security and ensure an adequate welfare system that protects us from capricious bosses that fire people for no reason. We will raise the minimum wage, restore overtime and shorter working hours, and make sure that all people benefit from the machines that do our work, not just the owners of the machines. We will make sure corporate boards have worker and community representatives with real power. We will pack and reform the courts if necessary to achieve these aims, because the courts do not represent and were not appointed by the majority of Americans, but by an outdated system of minority rule. We will create a fair trade world economy. We will make our country truly great, instead of the laughing stock of the world as it is now. If you reds want a war over all of that, then that's your choice. We will defeat you.

The blues have never really had power over anyone other than the poor who don't have the freedom to do anything but vote for a blue and hope for the best as far as getting something back in return for their voting effort like a higher minimum wage for the jobs that they tend to do for a living. A higher wage for a job that will most likely no longer exist after the law is passed. The blues are going have to figure out a way to do something about the freedom to say fuck that, I'm closing the doors and accepting the offer previously made by group of multi millionaires and getting out of this fucked up place. The blues may claim that a communist like system isn't what they want. However, a communist like system is what they need to control our freedoms. I've always said, your biggest issue is our freedoms.

But your freedoms amount basically to two things that us "communist like" liberal/progressives want to "control": your guns and your tax money. "Freedom" to your side amounts to "free enterprise," and the freedom to shoot people without restriction.

But guns should be controlled and restricted, because they are dangerous if in the wrong hands, and anyone's hands can go wrong.

And free enterprise needs to be controlled and restricted, because bosses are often greedy and capricious and may not look out for those whom (s)he deals with. Big business cannot be trusted to behave.

As long as business people do what they should do anyway voluntarily, though, they should have no problem with a reasonably fair and liberal government. 

That's not to say that government can't run amok, get corrupt, and/or raise taxes too high, but that's why liberals want real democracy, so the people can rein it in when it goes to excess too.

Business people should pay a fair living wage to employees. If they do, they have nothing to fear from liberal minimum wage laws, and they don't need to propagate the lie that higher wages destroys jobs. They don't; they put spending money in workers pockets, and that's good for business. Business people that provide safe and working products, safe working conditions and safe effects on the environment, have little reason to be concerned that Uncle Sam will restrict them.

And as long as "non-blues" don't react fanatically and/or violently to prudent gun control, they have little grounds for fear that liberal commies will take away their guns or their gun rights in the USA.

Quote:Again, what freedoms are you claiming the blues are threatening. The 'right' to offer slave wages? The 'right' to be a racist? The 'right' to have the government enforce religious doctrines? What amendments of the Bill of Rights have been threatened?

Good questions too.