11-01-2019, 05:22 AM
(11-01-2019, 01:47 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Actually, I don't live in the very blue area. I live in the more reddish area. The very blue area is actually small in comparison to the reddish area that surrounds it. I live in one of those Republican Districts that you were cheering about winning/picking up not so long ago. I think she probably lost her job today. You see, the demographics that you keep reminding me about haven't really changed enough to matter. I'm sorry but Rachel Maddow looked like a fool when a copy of one of Trumps taxes returns actually looked normal and acceptable. I guess she should have actually seen it before she started promoting it and selling it as solid proof of wrong doings by Trump. A dumb mistake that one would expect to made by an adult who acts as if she has the mentality of a juvenile.
As far as tradition, I think the liberals are doing a wonderful job getting rid of them and making it possible for us to get the kind of judges we wanted to have in the Supreme Court. Hey, if you ever meet Harry Reid, thank him for the judges we received from his big mistake. Oh, if you ever meet Obama, thank him for breaking tradition and changing long standing rules that were then used by the other side to help me become a more wealthier person today.
Uhhh... The areas in which Democrats have an electoral advantage are the more compact giant cities and their suburbs. People vote. Cattle, corn, cacti, and cotton don't.
Now that Donald Trump has abolished the short forms so that paupers get to use the same forms as plutocrats, tax forms for a farm laborer can look much like those for a big farmer. I can understand you seeing a tax form as "only numbers". Distort the numbers through understated earnings or bloated deductions, and one commits tax fraud.
...Now, for the change in Senate rules. Republicans who had rejected every Obama appointee on the principle that the appointee was by Obama. Now Republicans do the same so that they could rush through someone like Bart Drunk-enough. The Republican party now seems to operate on the principle that government rightly operates to represent economic power instead of the people. That sounds much like Mussolini's Corporate State to me. Yeah, right -- the farm laborer has more in common with the big land-owner than with a sweatshop worker who in turn has much in common with shareholders and executives. If you believe that, then you can believe in a flat earth.
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.