The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(01-24-2020, 12:05 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(01-22-2020, 12:49 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-21-2020, 05:21 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Astrology and cycle theories are all connected.

The conservative ideology today is making America a banana republic again.

Yes, they both seem to be directly  connected to you. Dude, I don't live in a liberal run banana republic like St.Paul or Minneapolis. I live in an American suburb that has no interest in ending up being like either of them. We have to remind the Democratic politicians that they could easily be directly challenged and replaced by any of us if they forget where they live and get to far out of line with our values and start acting more like city liberals than Democrats these days. You see, the greatest threat to them are the private sectors who aren't interested in doing jobs these days. Yes, you run the risk of losing talent to us like you have been doing for years and are seeing the results of these days.

You live in the banana republic. St. Paul/Minneapolisis is a metropolous. The democrats know how to run a republic; the Republicans only know how to turn it into a banana republic, whose prosperity is only reserved for a few owners. 

Your Republican policies reduce taxes on the wealthy and eliminate their responsibility to the republic in order to increase their profits. Your side (Trump) takes away regulations on industry so that it can pollute the water, and then claims this is stimulating the economy. The American Banana Republic is being created by this trickle-down economics scheme. But wealth does not trickle down. Your scheme only results in the rich getting richer. They buy out other companies, concentrate wealth and power, fire workers, buy the government, send jobs overseas, replace jobs with robots, cause depressions with speculation, destroy public schools so that young people have less opportunity, destroy our health and our environment, and seek immigrants to come and take over the high paying jobs while shutting out those who are not competitive with Americans.

Trickle down economics appeals to you guys because you hate people of color coming into our country. You think blacks and browns are lazy and take your tax money, and that Democrats depend on them for their positions in government. But the brown kitty cats are out of the bag. There are lots more hispanics in our country now, and they are turning the southwest blue because they resent what Trump does to their fellow hispanics: treat honest people seeking opportunity in America like animals, starving them, putting them in cages and taking them off the street like nazis and putting them in jail. Once Arizona and then Texas turns blue, your game will be up for good.

I actually live in the greater twin cities that PB referenced. I live in an area the Democrats still run with an understanding that there are people with equal or greater capabilities and intelligence levels who are watching them who could replace them anytime and also the ones who are in charge of making most of the important decisions for them these days.  We have a so so Democratic mayor who has run unopposed for many years because no one like me or anyone like me with higher credentials or city related positions are interested in his job these days. I know him personally. He got into a legal dispute with one of my friends (a brother of one of my close high school friends) and lost. You see, the mayor tried to blame the problem ( a flooded basement caused by a plugged culvert) on everything other than an obvious lack of routine maintenance by the city. My friend won the argument that should not have been an argument in the first place. But, that's the kind of guy the mayor is when he's mayor. He's OK and reasonable when he's not mayor. He did the same thing when his son was caught making money the wrong way while he was working as an assistant manager at our public owned golf coarse.