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Nicely done. Thanks for the effort.

Originally Posted by Coach

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These are the same point and it is that they are afraid of change and yes it is not irrational, but it is not something to be preyed on and poked at but worked at moving along with the change. Interracial marriage was made legal when 60-70% of the population still thought it should be illegal. Those leaders dragged their constituents into the future.



This was true before Trump showed up. Since then they couldn't even get their own majority congress to agree on literally anything. Not their own speaker, not border control, not healthcare reform, nada.

There are extremes to "both sides" but doesn't what that extreme fight for matter? One "extreme" is fighting for universal healthcare, body autonomy and to stop the bombing of civilians. One extreme wants to ban books, take away rights of women and minorities and install a theological government. One marches in the streets to stop police brutality, one marches to help an orange man take over the government. It's not even close. The left extreme is the actual norm in almost all of it's allies.



To the effect of allowing an oligarchal takeover of their economy with neutered and ineffective forces of regulation. This is not an accidental by product. It's on purpose.



Companies do not care about anything but their profit. That is their function. We do not expect them to care for anything but their profit. The governments literal function is to do work for people. Whether or not that works properly is a function of the people who are there and what they are doing with the power bestowed upon them and, as per above, by and large the people fighting to make it work better for the people and NOT the companies and specifically the very few people at the top of those very few companies are the people at the "extreme" of the left, and those working harder to make it easier for the companies to screw over workers every which way possible to the tune of creating more profit and personal wealth, are not even the extreme right its people in the Democratic Party too that many GOP members would refer to as extreme leftists.



Cool I will:

Tax: Their tax plan hasn't changed since Reagan and has done nothing but drive purchasing power away from the middle class to a hands of a few, creating a short term boom bust cycle based on borrowing at abnormally low interest rates sure to create booming inflation long term (whoops!) fraught with fraud and abuse of regulation to the tune of a completely underfunded infrastructure, education and a population that can't participate in basic economies like home ownership and food/clothing choice purchasing bringing everything to a halt. This was at one time just theory. Thankfully the US has now run a long enough social experiment with Trickle Down Economics spanning decades to have enough data to conclude it f***ing suuuuuuucks (to use a technical term).

Immigration: Build wall. Deport brown people.

Guns: LOL.

Religion: Should not exist in the government according to their constitution as written by infallible god-men never to be changed or re-interpreted so....not sure why it's the list at all....




These outcomes are not accidents. Its was GOP politicians want (not what GOP voters want). They know it creates these cycles they can use and abuse. They have whole doctrines of think tanks and universities where all these blow hards go to talk about it. So yeah.... that's their policy. It's not good for anyone but people who are already rich and powerful. So yeah they want hold onto it, that's understandable. Whats less understandable is why we keep handing it too them and then complaining it doesn't work. Well yeah, you're voting for the people whose OPEN POLICY is to screw you. Like, just read it.