What you ought to be doing is coming up with practical solutions that alleviate some of the root causes of the problems you want to address. Talking in comparative generalisations about income growth does nothing to help anybody. Identify specifically the group of people who have a problem you want to address, understand what is causing it, and propose a long term solution. You don’t need to attack a different group of people to do so. That is little more than a form of bigotry. This isn’t a zero sum game, and if you don’t understand that then it’s unlikely you have much to offer in terms of policies in the first place.
Blow me.
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Thanks for the offer, but I think I’ll join with the rest of the country in rejecting that policy suggestion as unpalatable.
I commented on a White Power march, and you’re trying to tie that in with the failures of Democratic Party policies.
As if these goons were all down with the diversity and that multi-culti vibe until we began to ignore them.
This is not about economics. This is about a group of reactionary miscreants who’ve been led to believe they’ve been aggrieved and that their perceived position of privilege is now being threatened.
And what makes you think the Democratic Party is not reaching out to these people?
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Trump and/or Putin in trouble? Ukky to the fellating rescue!
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Trump is now more popular in the US than Macron is in France - suggest you get yourself over to the Élyssée lickety split.
Since you obviously want to twist everything to suit your argument, let me reference how I responded to your picture of the neo Nazi piece of shit – which was to say he is indeed a piece of shit. Discussion: Judge Rules Charlottesville White Nationalist Rally To Proceed As Planned
From there, you’ve gone on to claim that I’m in support of “these goons,” completely ignoring everything I’ve actually had to say. and you won’t let up with you hogwash. Really. I’m amazed. You’re obviously not at all what I’ve previously taken you to be.
Since you are such an expert on life in the US, what do you think led to the over consumption. It is related. And 30 years+ of such a shifting economy isn’t just a ‘rut for awhile’. Hint: related to the problem I noted.
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Ukky is a douche who tries to hijack threads every time PO(tu)S or Putin is in “danger.” Has been suspended here several times. Best to reply about and not to.
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No, I only disagreed with the end of your comment:
“No we shouldn’t try and understand him. He’s a piece of shit. But we shouldn’t throw out the baby with the bathwater either. There are people who vote who do have legitimate economic concerns, and we ignore those concerns at the Democratic Party’s peril.”
What I objected to was what I perceived as an attempt to connect this apparent resurgence of white supremacism to some failure of the Democratic Party and its economic policies.
If that is not what you conveyed, then I apologize. But if there is anything I am overly sensitive to, it is this argument that the Democratic Party has lost its way, that it is run by elites who have abandoned working class people, and that it has no message other than opposition to Trump.
And the fact is, Hillary won the votes of people making less than $50,000 a year, and her policies would have helped them.
It is the Republican Party that has abandoned the working class, and by that I mean that instead of addressing issues that affect them, they pander for their votes by exploiting their anxieties and resorting to social wedge issues --but offer no real solutions to runaway factories, declining standards of living, rising healthcare costs, etc…
And I haven’t mentioned Bernie Sanders in any of this.
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…and stop calling them “white nationalists.” They are insurrectionists and seditionists.
But let’s be clear about one thing: above all else, they’re Republicans.
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I will mention the asshole…
Motherfuck the motherfucking motherfuckers
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Wanting Dems to support universal healthcare doesn’t seem like a particularly asshole move… actually standing for something as a political party is typically a good idea.
How Gorka ever became a naturalized citizen only a few years ago, needs to be seriously looked into. If anything, he needs to be deported, not given a cushy six figure salary working in the White House on our dime. He swore allegiance to Hungarian fascists before coming here, and before taking his citizenship oath, for which he did not disclose. He therefore lied upon entering this country and procuring his naturalization citizenship. That kind of false representation has gotten thousands under a tRump administration already kicked out of the country with this administration’s crackdown on immigrants that have entered the country under all sorts of arrangements. Yet this one seems to have received a hands-off or kid-glove approach with regards to his own immigration status.
Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America
“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”
Compare that to this guy who got 5 years in jail for lying on his citizenship papers:
https://apnews.com/c22e34a49fb1490b818a83ad42c6a727/man-convicted-lying-become-citizen-gets-nearly-5-years
Good thing Durbin, Blumenthal and Cardin are on Gorka’s case. Let’s see if Sessions’ DoJ will get on this. Somehow, I doubt it.
Again…here’s more on Gorka’s background and why he has absolutely no business being in our government in any capacity where we the taxpayers are forced to pay for this asshole and his fascist beliefs:
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Maybe you need to get over your hatred too and also pay some attention to stuff like this:
https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/339339/bernie-sanders-parliamentarian-bcra-save-obamacare/
You’re doing the Democratic party no service with your constant carping and you know it as well as I do.
You need to piss off if you think the Bernie Bros are doing anything constructive.
Fuck the supporters of Bernie and his felonious wife.
You need to piss off with your straw man argument. I’m talking about Sanders himself and his efforts to save the ACA, not Bernie Bros.
At least I am a Democrat, unlike St. Bernard and his felonious wife.
Gosh, you’re even less pleasant to the ‘wrong’ sort of Democrat than you are to non-Dems. If your views are in any sense representative then this doesn’t auger well for the Dems at the next election
You give yourself a medal for being a Democrat? What a stupid fuck thing to say. I never took you for being that stupid, but I guess I’m the sucker on this one.