Controversial Political Opinions

[JasonBlack]

(07-19-2022, 03:45 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: You are missing the point. It is the bosses who support Republicans. Employees support Democrats.

I am not missing the point. Your point is simply incorrect. Mark Zuckerberg is a Democrat. So is Jack Dempsey, so is Jeff Bezos, so is Warren Buffet, so is Mark Cuban. Even Donald Trump and Elon Musk were Democrats until recently.

Quote:Democrats and especially progressive ones care about people and the resources they need. Republicans care only about money.

over-simplification if there ever was one

Quote:Politicians within both parties are "political animals" because that's their profession. That is neither good nor bad. It is the decisions they make that are.

We're gonna have to disagree on that. Being a party animal makes someone inherently un-trustworthy.

Quote:Progressives are not about telling other people how to live their "lives". "Life" is not making money. The "controlling people" that Democrats do is controlling how bosses treat everyone else. Without that control, they treat them and ALL of us very badly. That is the entire point.

The most draconian lockdown measures were all in blue states, and the most aggressive censorship of the last 20 years has come from the left. With that said, Australia, Canada and western Europe have been much, much worse than the United States on both fronts. Americans of all political sides value some sort of freedom above basically everything else. We care about it even more than we do safety and prosperity. Europeans simply don't believe in "give me liberty of give me death!". To them, freedom is just one of several variables to consider with regards to policy, and if they have to take a little (or in this case....a lot) away from people for the sake of expediency, they will usually role over quickly.

Quote:Bosses cannot be trusted to do the right things, and that includes Zuckerberg and the rest of the Silicon Valley bosses. Democrats are willing to control them; Republicans want them to "be free to live their lives", which means free to exploit other people and the environment however they want at the expense of the rest of us. And to deceive us with false "freedom" slogans and appeals to fear and prejudice.

imo, most of their promises have been rather empty in this regard, kind of like post-Reagan Republicans promising to "balance the budget". People today of all political persuasions deserve the cynicism they feel over politics.