Election 2020

[Bob Butler 54]

(11-16-2020, 02:22 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: You're not interested in the system that you've been more or less promoting/supporting/representing for as long as I've known you and the others here. I think you're right, I think the majority of the country favors American capitalism over lowly third world socialism. I think you're also right about the elites losing control over the American people as well. You're seeing signs of it now. Bernie hit a nerve but Trump hit a much larger nerve than Bernie. The Democratic zealots are going down. It's just a matter of how hard are they going down at this point. Biden is a sellout and that will be made very clear by the mid terms. The Democrats voted to go backwards which is fine for Democrats these days.

If people are living close together, it is natural that they want to help each other.  If they are spread way out, they have to become more self reliant, do a greater number of things themselves.  Neither is evil.  Neither is the correct solution for all circumstances, for all environments.

The crime is in thinking other people living under different circumstances should be forced to do what you do.

Any attempt to help your neighbor, to cooperate, to work together, has come to be called socialism.  Ben Franklin in that case was a big socialist.  He thought it was neat for a bunch of well to do merchants to get together and pave the road, or to get them together to form a postal service.  The idea was to create a more perfect union.  More recently it is called domestic spending.  The government tries to help the people... or not as the case might be.

Some people just are not team players.  It’s about themselves, they don’t need support from anybody.  Well, bully for them.  They just shouldn’t get in the way of those who do want to work together, or to be good at one thing and let others do what they are good at.

I picture a culture of independence where everybody is supposed to learn how to fix their own air conditioner.  I’d rather not, myself.  I’ll just call in a guy who specializes in fixing air conditioners.  Classic just seems incapable of understanding the principle.

Edit:  Now, if all air conditioners were owned by the state, and that by law you could not fix your own air conditioner or others except by being a member of the party's official air conditioning bureaucracy, and that only the sons of party bureaucrats seemed ever to become members, and if you were illegally caught fixing an air conditioner you got exiled to some ridiculous cold place, now then you are getting into the sort of abuse which gave socialism a bad name among certain people.  That doesn't seem to be the case here.