Election 2020

[pbrower2a]

(01-05-2020, 06:33 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-04-2020, 03:35 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: (deleted for brevity)

I didn't brush off the 2018 election. I understand the reason why (Republicans) lost the House in 2018. I still voted Republican because I understood what was going to happen if/when the Democrats regained control over the House. Me, I learned about a decade ago, you don't give the benefit of the doubt to the Democrats these days because the liberal Democrats are dumb/needy enough to do and support whatever it takes for them to have a chance to remain in office these days. Yes. The future looks bright for the Democrats as long as the country remains together like it is now. What's the chances of that at this point? I'd say slim to none by the end of this decade. What's going to you? Don't know and don't much care at this point. Nope, the Tea Party ain't dead. The Tea Party is alive and well and largely represents our Millenials. You see, being raised by a very street smart generation who doesn't really give a shit about liberal rules or liberal policies who doesn't have much love for socialism or much time for liberal people or liberal politics in general who laugh and think about how much money we could make off the fools and clueless people who support/ feel they can rely on the liberals these days. I'm sorry to say, my liberal neighbor is a bit of a head case. You see, she bought in to liberal belief while most of the folks her age stuck with their own beliefs. Right now, the only difference between them and us is that we have higher integrity and scruples. Of coarse, scruples don't apply and integrity doesn't much matter when dealing with/ eliminating a bunch of liberal scumbags. I already proved that over a decade ago. So, what happened to that big old forum that you were associated with in the past?

Republicans lost the House because Trump was a lousy President. The 2018 midterm election was not a landslide; Republicans made gains in the Senate on net because of Democrats holding Senate seats that they won in 2012 against complete fools or have held onto in states drifting R and finally lost. Even so, Democrats won the majority of the total vote for US Senators. A vote for Trump is basically a vote for a reversion to the Gilded Age, a time in which nothing mattered except the gain, indulgence, and power of economic elites for which people got promises of pie-in-the-sky-when-you-die.

All politicians promise what they can get away with promising; Republicans have gotten more aggressive and reckless with such in recent years. Just think of global warming. It would be more convenient to not shovel so much snow, to not use so much heating fuel, and to be able to go on Sunday drives on more winter days with knowledge that the temperature will get closer to 55F than to -5F. I don't particularly like Michigan winters, but for that I might soon spell relief F-L-O-R-I-D-A, as many do where I live. I know what harsh, snowy winters do: they protect upper-level ground water, and the last April thaw supplies copious water to germinating plants. I have never been in Winter Wheat country, but the trick is that the crops get their start in the late summer and are partially grown before they grow for harvest after winter is over. They too need winter snows to protect the soil moisture during the dormancy of the plants.  Agriculture remains the cornerstone of all healthy economies except for such places as Saudi Arabia that extract fuels or minerals cheaply for a small population.There is no technological or medical fix for hunger. When people get hungry, the economic and political order collapses. Maybe we can adjust to slow and (probably) inevitable global warming, but abrupt warming will be an unmitigated disaster for perhaps hundreds of millions of people.

I follow the numbers, and I see a reality very different from yours. I also recognize that the Millennial Generation has often endured severe hardships in part because of vindictive, right-wing politicians who saw poverty as the key to creating prosperity by compelling people to work longer and harder for less. Oh, if only people would suffer more for the Master Class who owes them nothing -- and remembers to smile even more! As a liberal Boomer I could predict the consequences; the Millennial Generation has often felt the consequences. 

Socialism? The Marxist-Leninist variety that seizes the property and runs it? Marx ignored that bureaucratic elites could exploit the common man just as severely as could capitalists, feudal lords, and even slave-owning planters. Government ownership and operation of businesses has rarely proved effective and has shown itself to be chary of innovation -- just like private monopolies. The only rationale for government ownership of business is of natural monopolies or of entities that cannot be run on a profit-and-loss basis. I would be satisfied with "capitalism with a human face" at this point. 

You may have some scruples, and you may stand for a community that does far more for people in distress than the distant shareholders and dismissive executives.