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Neither party has the right answers nailed, so I walked away from both parties. They're both too extreme for my taste. I usually vote based on who appears the least corrupt, and closest to the thinking middle.
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Originally Posted by Grlzrl
I read it. And he nailed it. I walked away, too. I voted for Obama in 2008 and watched EVERYTHING he did....or rather didn't do. All he ever wanted to do was raise taxes on the rich. I kept waiting for a jobs program. Never happened. He demonized people who worked to help people who didn't. I was a lifelong Democrat, too. Then Obama opened my eyes. I read these boards all the time and I still can't see anyone who has anything to say about any of Obama's policies that were a success. They never say it.
He is wrong about most of the things he mentioned, as are you. If you genuinly stopped supporting the Democratic Party based on lies(like no jobs program when Barack Obama had at least 3) Then I dont know what to say to people like you.
Let's be honest. The Democratic party, not unlike Hillary and Joe Biden, sold out.
That's not "being honest," and Democrats are not the sellouts.
The sellouts are Republicans like Lindsey Graham, Jim Jordan and the like, who have sold their soul to prop up a corrupt gangster-Prez because they fear if they don't, they will lose their seats, their power, because if they don't kowtow to Trump, he will attack them mercilessly like the mean-spirited, corrupt, criminal that he is.
Clearly the original posting was written from the viewpoint of the “working class” – and a particular segment of the working class: skilled trades and high-end manufacturing (machining).
Now let’s consider how the narrative could have been different…
Our hero is a bit older than the OP. He was a smart kid from the same geographic area, who got into math… full scholarship as an undergrad, then a fellowship for a PhD. Tenure-track faculty at U of Washington in the mid 1990s… then along comes the quantitative revolution on Wall Street. Our hero is plucked out of the doldrums of academia and gets a job writing options-trading algorithms. He’s making $400K/year, before bonuses, to sling equations around. Along comes the dot-com crash, and he loses his job… but not before cashing-out with a low 7-figure parachute.
The early 2000s action shifts to Europe, and our hero relocates to Frankfurt, Germany. His algorithms bet on a rise of the Euro and a fall of the US dollar, with huge payouts to him and to his employer. 2008 rolls around, Europe (as everywhere else) tanks, and he moves on… to Shanghai… where he remains as a “quant”, until the tariffs hit in 2018. At this point our hero moves back to the Seattle area, where he buys a $12M mansion for cash, and is wondering how to hire decent but inexpensive household help. You know where this is going…
With a fortune deep in the 8-figures, the protagonist is wondering whether to get back into academia, as an encore career.
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Originally Posted by Grlzrl
...I read these boards all the time and I still can't see anyone who has anything to say about any of Obama's policies that were a success. They never say it.
I consider the “Wall Street” bailouts of 2008-2009, first under Bush and then Obama, to be a resounding success. I also consider Fed moves to have likewise been an unalloyed success. These are in some measure reasons for why the US has recovered from the Great Recession, but Europe has not.
Yep, almost all Democrat Candidates say they want to decriminalize Border crossing "Open borders" and the Democratic voters are too delusional to believe what comes out of their leader's mouths
Yet, that is what we have. Is it defeat any idea Mr Trump has mindset of the current Democratic party. I and millions of others believe so. Justifiably so.
They - the Democratic party could demonstrate they are against open borders, if only they would.
That's not "being honest," and Democrats are not the sellouts.
The sellouts are Republicans like Lindsey Graham, Jim Jordan and the like, who have sold their soul to prop up a corrupt gangster-Prez because they fear if they don't, they will lose their seats, their power, because if they don't kowtow to Trump, he will attack them mercilessly like the mean-spirited, corrupt, criminal that he is.
So Graham and Jordon got rich off being politicians? Show me. Are you seriously not following how much money the Bidens made from China and Ukraine? Or the Clintons who left office broke and now are worth over $100m?
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