Fascism is on the ballot

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(10-13-2020, 11:38 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(10-13-2020, 10:48 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Classic Xer, Democrats don't really offer "minorities" that many special perks these days. Affirmative action is not legislation that Democrats have passed lately, and it is in decline. In CA, a "majority-minority" state, we have the chance to vote it back into law this election (Prop.16). But otherwise, I don't see any race-based perks going on. They do provide some class-based protections, to the extent that they can (which has been very limited on the federal level since Reagan). Most social and anti-poverty programs have been cut, and social work is carried out by the police under Reaganomics. But since you think welfare and affordable health care are mostly given to "minorities," that shows the basic racial bias in your statement. Under Republicans, we live in an unequal society in which a few bosses own most of the wealth, and many people are not paid appropriately for their work.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=173308866679555

Republicans offer a failed economy all of the time. Lower taxes does not produce economic growth, except for the wealthy business interests (probably including you), and the "constitutional rights" they protect are limited to the right to carry assault rifles so you can parade around and intimidate people or massacre people or join a stupid private militia, and the right to discriminate against gays based on your religion.

Classic Xer, Democrats don't really offer "minorities" that many special perks these days. Affirmative action is not legislation that Democrats have passed lately, and it is in decline. In CA, a "majority-minority" state, we have the chance to vote it back into law this election (Prop.16). But otherwise, I don't see any race-based perks going on. They do provide some class-based protections, to the extent that they can (which has been very limited on the federal level since Reagan). Most social and anti-poverty programs have been cut, and social work is carried out by the police under Reaganomics. But since you think welfare and affordable health care are mostly given to "minorities," that shows the basic racial bias in your statement. Under Republicans, we live in an unequal society in which a few bosses own most of the wealth, and many people are not paid appropriately for their work.





same video:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=173308866679555


Today, Republicans are forcing upon us a supreme court justice whom Trump has appointed specifically to rule in favor of his lawsuits about the election which have been rejected by lower courts, and thus give him the presidency even if Biden wins the election by over 350 electoral votes and a 10%-plus popular vote margin! Republicans are totally ruthless, lawless and immoral! Vote the Classic Xers out of power!

Republicans have packed the Courts with reactionaries that favor bosses over the rights of employees, customers, and the environment and climate we depend on.

You didn't watch/see Kamala during the debate the other night. She was there because she qualifies as being a minority woman and that's it. I hate to burst your bubble but you people are the only to make America your enemy. It nice to see a blue billionaire buying influence with minority workers instead of relying on our tax dollars to do it for him. I saw a blue billionaire on Fox the other night making a pitch for the Green New Deal and telling us that Morgan Stanley offered its services and all its resources as the primary means to transfer trillions of dollars the other night and how great it would be for Americans? It kind of reminded me about NAFTA and the way NAFTA was sold to Americans during the early 90's. Like I said, the MacBeths are on your side and it won't be long until the MacBeth's replace the Hamlets. Nature always wins.

Elections are not decided on any concept of affirmative action in America. If you wish to claim that Kamala Harris became a US Senator through some form of electoral fraud, then prove it. Just because you dislike the result does not indicate fraud. 

...now what is so insidious about the Green New Deal? It is an attempt to wean us away from burning fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are non-renewable resources, and as they become scarcer or more difficult (or destructive) to extract, they become more expensive to use, and an economy that depends upon them sputters. The world is then committed to using such renewable resources as there are (such as grains for horses or wood for steam locomotives) to revert to a pre-technological era. Welcome to the early 19th century -- with several times as many people. 

Another complication of the use of non-renewable resources is global warming that will inundate some prime farmland on which are settled hundreds of millions of peasant farmers who feed some rapidly-industrializing countries. So those peasant farmers go to the cities beyond the reach of the rising seas. Question: who feeds them? Meanwhile, land surfaces and the air above them get warmer and crops need more precipitation. What if the rainfall does not keep up? A place like Spain or central Texas becomes too dry for growing crops without irrigation. Semi-desert conditions begin to prevail in what was prime cropland.

There is no technological fix to ward off starvation, let alone the social stresses that mass hunger creates. 

A little hint to you, Classic X'er: your state (Minnesota) relies upon agriculture as the foundation of its economy. You may find winter blizzards unpleasant, but Minnesota grain farmers need winter blizzards to protect the soil moisture necessary for growing crops in the non-growing season and for supplying ground moisture for thirsty crops either germinating in the spring or starting to grow again after having been planted before the winter (winter wheat). Obviously I need some word other than "snowflake" to describe people who find blizzards unduly constricting to their ways of life. For people from my state (Michigan) and yours there is a way out of that cold and snow. Let me spell it out:

F-L-O-R-I-D-A

(Let's see... from the Twin Cities you go east on I-94 to near "Scary, Indiana" and head south on I-65, cutting east somewhere to  get to I-75 [most likely I-74 at Indianapolis or I-24 at Nashville] and enjoy the fun in the sun. Great, huh?) Heck, you would probably meet some grain farmers from Minnesota and the Dakotas getting away from the nasty blizzards, too. 

Of course, global warming would inundate much of Florida, so bye-bye Miami, Tampa-St. Pete, Daytona Beach, Palm Beach, etc. 

Eric has it right. Donald Trump has little credibility as a leader, and if he wins he will have even less. If you think he has the Armed Forces behind him, think again: he is the worst sort of Commander-in-Chief that we could possibly have. He wants his own glory but he holds the soldiers in contempt as cannon fodder. The intelligence services also despise him. He is accustomed to ordering people about as if they were expendable servants because seemingly everyone wants to have some connection to His Wonder as a Person. 

Let me contrast him to the last President who had no experience in elective office, Dwight Eisenhower (yes, he was an above-average President because of his integrity and his understanding of the system with little desire to shake up things that did not need shaking up) well knew the difference between military and civilian life. The rap on Ike going into 1952 was that as a General he had learned to order people about who didn't have to obey him to the letter. He proved such people wrong. Trump barks out orders to people who depend upon him for... whatever ... and when something goes wrong he faults them instead of his ill-conceived plans, questionable legality of his orders, and incompatibility of his 'vision' with the natural constraints of core reality. Government is a huge enterprise, but it does not operate as a for-profit entity. Really, you do not want the government competing with private industry and relying upon state enterprises to meet budgetary requirements, and there are parts of government (the military, law enforcement, the legal and penal system, the  welfare system, and emergency aid) that cannot operate on a for-profit system. Above all, you do not want the government maximizing the take from taxes!

Eisenhower was a fine President, and as you can see I have compared Obama to Ike. Trump is about as toxic a leader as there is.