09-26-2020, 04:17 PM
(09-26-2020, 03:42 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: It's worked for most, Biden's candidacy is proof that Reaganomics works for most Americans these days. It doesn't seem to have worked as well for Berniecrats/ quasi socialist/ Marxist/ BLM /Antifa/ identity politics/ social justice/ open boarders wing of the Democratic party these days. Honestly, I don't see how anything American related is ever going to work very well with them at this point. So, why do you keep using race against me when I don't give a shit if you're black or white or Hispanic or whatever race you identify with these days? Like I said, we KNOW which party is more racist and racially driven today. You're right about Harris because Harris represents the end of the Democratic party. I'm sorry but the racist whites with all the money and power associated with the bulk of the Democratic party's funding needs a minority to blame for the party's demise.
It has well served America's economic elites; nobody can deny that. It may have gone as far as it can without doing great harm to the political system and electoral politics. To keep going further one must have the sort of social order in which 95% of the people suffer for 2% and a brutal system to enforce such. Such would imply the death of any semblance of democracy.
The rest of us? Not so fast. Real wages are lower than they were when Carter was President. If there is more prosperity, then it is because people are working more hours (mostly because both spouses are working) to pay more rent to landlords -- if they have the well-paying jobs that mandate that they live where those jobs are. I see nothing wrong with women getting equal opportunity including equal pay -- but if they are working solely to make landlords and other plutocrats richer, then such is exploitation.
Attempting to put contradictory threads of politics (for example, Black Lives Matters has nothing to do with Marxism -- it's about trigger-happy cops, and not turning the assets of plutocrats over to the "vanguard of the proletariat") will not fool me. What you consider Marxist is what Americans really want -- a social-market economy that ensures that people who do the work can live well enough while having a market economy. Prosperity of the Reagan-Trump kind, the sort that depends upon mass poverty despite high productivity, is a gross fraud. If you support that tendency, then you are nothing more than a tool of people who would be delighted to have you die of hunger or exposure as an example if you ever violated the demands of the economic elites.
Donald Trump is a racist. His view on almost every non-white group is that 'he knows a good one'. Sure. Every antisemite knew "one good Jew". And, yes, Donald Trump is an antisemite. I can only imagine how steamed he was when Ivanka dated Jared Kushner, and worse -- converted to Judaism. I know a few things about antisemitism, growing up in an antisemitic family who told things about Jews that I could not believe. When I got moved to a place where there were lots of Jews I found out how wrong many of my family members were. Donald Trump has been exposed. Jews are OK to him if he can use them. Well, plenty of white racists like the music of Duke Ellington and Scott Joplin, too.
The Democratic Party attracts people of disparate origins. It gets the majority of Japanese-Americans and Arab-Americans. Tell me what they should have in common aside from distrust of people hostile to any cultural difference.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.