The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(06-28-2020, 10:57 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(06-28-2020, 06:29 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: You have not defined "American," but if you include in them the Confederates, who were traitors and declared independence and fought the bloodiest war in American history in order to keep their slaves, and spat on American values once re-united by continuing to hold the former slaves in bondage, then it does raise the red flag. If you label me a Marxist, then I can label you a racist. I consider that a fair trade. Since the Marxists have a very lousy record of governing in places like Russia, China and North Korea, I have never considered myself a Marxist, and the Confederates were no better, and are not much better even today by foisting upon us a government that doesn't care about our future or the economic fortunes of most of its citizens. The Confederates did not remain in the Union by choice, and by choice they have never been good Americans.

Are red and blue indeed going to be the same as the gray and the blue? It's up to you.

Yep. You are free to call me a racist or associate me with racism. You're lucky I let it slide and associate it with pure stupidity on your part because I can sue you and prove I'm not racist in court and clean you out so to speak. I've got the capital and the connections to teach you a nasty lesson about life. You have to be more careful these days. Yes, the Marxists have a bad track record and the Democrats have a bad track record as we've seen several times lately so you are kind of screwed either way at this point.

Well, I've got capital too, so good luck with that. I won't block you or ignore you. You have abundantly proved who you are by you opposing the takedown of statues of confederate traitors and calling them "Americans", which they weren't. At least, once they rebelled and did the things which Dixie later commemorated them for with their lousy statues, and set up their own state in 1860, they were no longer citizens of the USA.

Mississippi may finally be close to admitting they are Americans again, by taking the confederate flag out of their state flag. 155 years too late, but better late than never.

The Democrats have a fair track record, and it could be better, but they can't do much with the stubborn resistance from you guys for 40 years on and counting. The Republicans are proving their abject failure again this year, as they did after Katrina and the 2008 crash and the Iraq War and Iran-Contra and Watergate and on and on. Reaganomics fails. Always.

I did admit to being a "quasi-socialist," but I am also a "quasi-capitalist," and a literal one too, so it seems a wash. I favor a mixed economy, and you favor some degree of laissez faire. And Reaganomics is closet racism; Trump is out in the open. One was a dog whistle, the latter one is a trumpet.