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Originally Posted by Chriz Brown
Why do people on this forum totally ignore facts and ignore valid arguments against their side? Its just constant knee-jerk attacks with no analysis or support provided.
Why do you assume everything FOX NEWS or CNN tells you is automatically true just because the guy on the TeeVee happens to be someone from your political party?
Are people really this dumb?
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Actually, I have a different take on things.
Yes, we are more divided that ever, but that is a merely a symptom of a two-party system that no longer benefits ordinary working Americans.
The truth is we have much in common, but we are so busy fighting over the crumbs that we have lost sight of the big picture.
The left vs. right paradigm allows our politicians to talk a lot without really saying anything and that is very important if you need to convince people to vote for you while still remaining loyal to the 0.1% donor class that makes your run for office possible.
The truth is there is no reason for the 0.1% to finance a politician's campaign (2/3 of all campaign contributions come from 0.1% of the population) except to get favorable laws and regulations put in place so that they can pollute America, offshore American jobs, underpay American workers and the like.
Since voters will not support a candidate who advocates whatever best benefits the 0.1%, politicians have to maximize the impact of the social issues that divide us.
And while some or all of these issues are important to many individuals, in most cases they don't and shouldn't outweigh economic and security matters.
So now we have a Republican Party that is fully fractured and a Democratic Party that can't seem to win elections outside of West Coast, North-East and Mid-West urban centers.
I see that as progress.
In decades past, Democrats were the party of the working man and the dominant political force in the US because we really didn't need a second party except as a check on the first.
That all changed when Democrats turned their backs on working-class white males.
With women entering the workforce in huge numbers in the 1970s, wages were certain to fall, and they did.
This economic revolution put Democrats in a very bad position.
The working man's party could no longer be the working man's party while also being the party of women's lib and the civil rights movement.
So they did what they had to do to remain viable; they cast off working-class white males.
Sure they would accept their votes, but if push came to shove, there was no way to keep well-paid male factory workers happy and the 0.1% who wanted lower wages also happy.
The obvious solution for Democrats going forward was to build a political coalition of everyone who was not a working-class white male.
And why not?
The government can still force white males to fight its wars and confiscate their earnings before they ever see them, so as along as working white males remain a political minority, it's a no-brainer.
Now divorced by the Democratic Party, working-class white males took refuge in the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan.
Because we were earners, we really had nowhere else to go.
Busy with the political correctness of the 1990s, and with labor unions in sharp decline, corporate ***** Democrats and corporate ***** Republicans joined hands in a concerted effort to shove NAFTA up our ass.
Later that decade, as BJ-gate became the national obsession, bipartisan banking reforms were passed that set us on a collision course with a financial collapse that would result in the greatest transfer of wealth from the have-nots to the already-haves since the Great Depression.
Again, the 0.1% rejoiced!
The problem is we never had an honest and intelligent discussion about the changes that would occur when women entered the workforce in such large numbers and the best way to prevent wage deterioration as the labor pool expanded.
Certainly NAFTA didn't benefit working men or women, and neither did the 2000 China Trade Act, but we ended up with them because it's what the 0.1% wanted.
Trump has all the correct policies and Sanders almost did.
We don't need everyone and their ugly aunt Tilly coming here for a job.
We don't need to involve ourselves in other people's wars.
We need to reduce the number of workers starting with illegal aliens.
If you don't have the legal right to be here, you have to go.
Education costs need to be brought back down to Earth.
Individuals need to held accountable for their actions.
If we just did that, we would accomplish almost everything else.
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