(February 6, 2019 at 2:21 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(February 6, 2019 at 12:00 pm)Yonadav Wrote: I watched like maybe 15 minutes of it last night. It just made me jealous of Trump's speech writers. I'll bet that job pays really well, and it's got to be the easiest job ever. His speech sounded like a compilation of Trump's Greatest Tweets. All you have to do is save up his tweets, clean them up a little bit, string them together, and add a little bit of filler. Somebody's making some sweet, sweet cash for that shit.
This is one thing we can agree on.
I wonder how many napkins his writers used to write it. Trump would have done better with a "See And Say The Orange Turd Says".
(February 6, 2019 at 1:42 pm)Yonadav Wrote: What Bwian can't get through his head is that much of the Democratic base actively dislikes the Democratic Party. In theory, the majority of Americans self identify as Democrats, but only because so many have nowhere else to go. Politically aware liberals just aren't very big fans.
Why? Because the Democrats who would later become the New Democrats were Wonald Weagan's biggest supporters. The Republicans resisted Weaganomics. It is the Democrats who pushed Weagonomics through. Reaganomics and the economics of the New Democrats are basically the same thing. Sure, the New Democrats are perfectly happy to let Reagan's legacy take the criticism for trickle down, but the Democrats are the ones who pushed it through.
Brian, please read the following article. It was just published yesterday, and it covers a lot of ground that I have tried to discuss with you recently.
https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/20...ate-000879
Um, no this is misleading.
The biggest part of our decline had NOTHING to do with democrats AS VOTERS, but Reagan successfully busting the air traffic control unions. That broke the will of the rust belt voters. What this article is saying is true, but not the way you think.
Our politicians lost the narrative, and instead of fighting back, bent over to compete with him. And since Reagan, between voter apathy on our part, and gerrymandering on the GOP part, that forced our politicians to play by their narrative.
Our politicians back then gave up, that is not the same as what AOC is doing now.
If both parties thought like FDR or Teddy, back then, Reagan never would have won. But only one party started that decline, and that was the GOP. The only thing you can blame democrats for is giving up and too much compromise at that time.
The parties flipped during the 60s and 70s on social and economic issues, and that ended with Reagan starting our decline.
So you started out with an off topic rant about Reaganomics, and I gave you an interesting article about Democratic complicity.
Then you move the goalpost to a rant about Reagan's union busting. Well, the Dems also turned their backs on organized labor.
I know that you didn't read the article that I gave you. You really should read it.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
