Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

[David Horn]

(01-24-2019, 12:50 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: The American Right was opposed to the Soviet Union and its Communist system for obvious reasons. As an older American, you should be able to know  and understand those reasons. If not, here's a reason, every American citizen (regardless of their economic status/class and political affiliation (Republican or Democrat) who own property like homes, farms, business's, land of any kind, cabins and so forth would no longer have a right to own them because the individual freedom and financial means to do so wouldn't exist under the Soviet Union and it's Communist system. Every blue minded poster should be able to read this and hopefully learn why the 99% approach doesn't ever work for them within the US like it could/should be able to within some poor Latin American countries that haven't been torn apart and ravaged by cival war's between Communists and Fascist Regimes or dictators.

Communism reached pretty far into the ownership of property; there's no question about that. Is ownership by a class of oligarchs better? It merely privatized what was communal up to that point. Putin and the roughly 2 dozen oligarchs that surround him own roughly $1Trillion of assets … Putin owning a quarter of that personally. All that, in a country with a GDP of roughly $1.25Trillion. More to the point, Russia actively attacks our institutions, because it's weak and wants us weaker too. Why support any of this? It borders on treason.

And as far as alignment with the 99% is concerned, that's vastly preferable to aligning with the .01% that Trump favors. Even they know that this is wrong. It's been a topic of conversation at Davos: the annual meeting of the mega-wealthy. Of course, they aren't disgorging their wealth, only "empathizing" with those who have too little. But they are starting to read the tea leaves, and know change has to come and reasonably soon. Only the hardcore Trumpist seem inured to the underlying unfairness of the system. They blame everything on immigrants.