(August 7, 2018 at 10:46 am)alpha male Wrote:(August 7, 2018 at 10:42 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: Well, conservatives favor individual responsibility. "The Right" is a more mixed bag, with many elements of it only too happy to indulge in cult-of-personality group think, open racism, conspiracy theories, and the routine (and mindless) vilification of anyone slightly left of Genghis Khan. Care to explain how any of that squares with conservatism?
OK, change right to conservative.
Quote:Yes, I know that pocket-book conservatives like you normally shouldn't have to defend the lunatic fringe of the right, but we're in the mess we have precisely because conservatives -- and more precisely, the GOP -- have courted these fuckers for years. Now you have them, and your nominee won the presidency by pandering to their worst instincts. You pricks now own this mess.
I don't see that low unemployment and high economic growth constitute a mess.
WAGES dumbass.
The GOP and corporations LOVE your short term memory.
There was virtually no middle class and very little regulation when the stock market crashed and caused the great depression. REAGAN undid all the work FDR set up with the New Deal and that undoing of financial regulations, anti monopoly and union busting has simply set up the billionaire class to USE YOU YOU DUMBASS. Those policies also lead to Bush's housing'bank/car crash.
The economy doing good now is ARTIFICIAL and still based on DEBT caused by billionaire tax breaks they do not need.
Our 1% at the top love socialism, they socialize the profits in the private sector when they win, and socialize the losses on YOU YOU DUMBASS when they lose. That is what a "bailout" is.
Low unemployment has nothing to do with WAGES still not meeting the cost of living. That isn't just about poor urban blacks, it is also about the wages of the middle class and poor rural whites.
GOP congress loves you, you are a SUCKER.