RE: What are those die hard Trump defenders getting in return for their loyalty?
July 11, 2017 at 8:32 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2017 at 8:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Is the question concerning the rank and file? They get a great big nothingburger - as they've suddenly become fond of, same as they'd get with any other politician. As far as important trumpkins are concerned...they get complicity and complacency - same as they'd get with any other politician. You dance with them what brought you. Russia wants sanctions lifted, republicans want a record breaking tax cut for the upper crust of the upper crust, and the trumpster himself would like a cut of both. So long as any party in this nonsense can hold out a reasonable hope of getting what they want...they persist.
There are no mysteries here, with this administration or any other.
The dems are no different, at least fundamentally, in that they too would like to funnel money to their buddies - but insist that goods and services be provided to maintain the optics. An -actual- trickle down economy, when you think about it. Despite popular belief, neither dems nor repubs are looking to give a single red cent to the rank and file...but one way of delivering to corporate interest incurs a modicum of benefits to said rank and file by default, not as the goal, simply as a necessary consequence. Mandating healthcare, for example...not a socialist utopia - positively wonderful for the insurance industry. They turned record profits. Just like 7/11 would if it were made law that everyone had to buy at least one slurpee a day.
There are no mysteries here, with this administration or any other.
The dems are no different, at least fundamentally, in that they too would like to funnel money to their buddies - but insist that goods and services be provided to maintain the optics. An -actual- trickle down economy, when you think about it. Despite popular belief, neither dems nor repubs are looking to give a single red cent to the rank and file...but one way of delivering to corporate interest incurs a modicum of benefits to said rank and file by default, not as the goal, simply as a necessary consequence. Mandating healthcare, for example...not a socialist utopia - positively wonderful for the insurance industry. They turned record profits. Just like 7/11 would if it were made law that everyone had to buy at least one slurpee a day.
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