RE: Atheist/liberal correlation
July 23, 2016 at 12:48 am
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2016 at 12:51 am by SteelCurtain.)
(July 23, 2016 at 12:38 am)wallym Wrote: When Trump says America first, this is what I think of. Stopping outsourcing with the trade deals written by corporate lobbyists looking to drive up their stocks, and stop corporations/shady business from driving down wages through shady legal, and illegal immigration. People try to paint it as some Aryan white thing. But when I think America first, I think about giving poor black community at least a chance. My family got ours when the getting was good. But now, that opportunity is gone. I'd like to see it brought back. I don't know if Trump can do it. Probably not. But at least he'll be pushing in the right direction, I think.
I get this sentiment, but he is speaking purely to the populists when he says stuff like this. He is part of the Republican Party now. De-regulators. Not the party that is going to enact laws that will force companies to do things that will cost them money. I don't understand how people believe him. This man is speaking in terms that are solely for the people that want to hear it.
His party, the Republicans, live off of making promises that they know they can't or won't fulfill. That run contrary to their very core, which is smaller government, less corporate regulation. There is simply no trade deal that China will not undercut. There is no realistic corporate tax haven that some de-regulated country will not do better. It will always be cheaper to move your business elsewhere once it grows to a certain size with the capital to do so. Getting rid of illegal labor has been tried. It was a disaster in Alabama, as no one wanted to do the work that was left over. Even the people they found or forced to do it did a shitty job and the farmers who were against it in the first place got a big "I told you so."
It's a red herring to think any political party can significantly change this.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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