We're WEIRD. Get over it.

[David Horn]

(10-08-2020, 02:23 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(10-08-2020, 10:23 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(10-06-2020, 11:07 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Dude, the Democrats always have an excuse for not doing their jobs or addressing dire problems.

Ah! Something we can agree on.  Yes, the Dems are truly horrible at that.  They're the Hamlet Party.  Then again., the GOP is the Macbeth Party, which is worse.  We need an alternative.  One is unlikely to arise on the Right.  That leaves the Left.

Let's hope we don't have to wait for AOC to come of age and run for the top office.  She' 30 now, so her earliest run would be 2028.

Well, the GOP is quickly becoming the American party (you obviously don't see it that way but that's fine). The Democratic party and what's left of the Republican establishment are becoming the party of Hamlet and MacBeth as you say. It seems like every Democrat opposed to Trump and impeached Trump are using Trumps America First message/rhetoric today. I don't belief them or have faith in them but that's what they're all doing these days. How pathetic is that? I'm sure it's not pathetic to a pathetic person. So, who is still going to be around to clean up the Democratic mess and deal with all the chaos associated with failed states? I doubt you'll find many Americans who are interested in doing the job or find many who are sympathetic or want/feel obligated  to keep them either. Is AOC going to be much different than her Marxist  predecessors? Do you think her pretty brown eyes and pretty face is going to make Marxism more appealing to American tax payers?

The GOP is becoming the American Parity, lie the Fascists became the national parties in there respective countries.  Needless to say, it didn't go well.  And no, the old-line GOP is not the Macbeth Party. They're the Wall Street Party. They may survive in some form, but not in the form they once held.  No, it's the Trumpists who are the Macbeth Party: burn it all down and start anew.  We need change, but I can't see that kind of change being supported by enough people long enough to happen.  It's also borderline treason (though the idiots in Michigan took that right over the line there).  I suspect that Trump for President 2020 is a less likely success than Trump for Prison 2021.

And let's talk  about AOC.  If she's a Marxist, tell me how.  She's definitely a strong Social Democrat, that's for sure, and the rich will give back some of those ill gotten gains in a Social Democratic period -- just like they did after the last Gilded Age.  Just for a quick example of extreme plutocratic behavior: Jeff Bezos could give each of his 870,000 employees an $80,000 bonus, and still be as rich as he was at this time last year.