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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You are wasting your fucking time. No amount of "Not everyone votes tax cuts or their wallet because some of us are invested in having a functioning government, society, world, whatever" will get through. The attitude he espouses is why we have what we have. "I vote for me. If I get a tax cut of $100 a month, the poor get fucked, and the vast majority of wealth goes up to the very rich, I'm okay with it." He doesn't really give a shit about disgusting, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, hate-filled policy because it doesn't affect him. Sure, he'll say, "Yeah, I'm against that stuff." But he doesn't really give a shit unless it affects him or his wallet directly. Until it does, Dems and Republicans are essentially the same--"invested in the status quo." He says this without really understanding or caring that one party is burning every protection for people who aren't him to the ground.
Not giving a fuck about anyone outside your manufactured isolation shell is the ultimate luxury. Save your breath.
TM
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If I thought that, I'd have voted for Trump.
I don't know how to say this more concisely: To vote for the third party is to vote against the two choices offered. It is not a vote for one's pocketbook. Logically, it cannot be so. If I were voting my pocketbook, the calculation would have been:
Trump: Probably lower taxes, more economic activity in the short term, but possible market/economic damage outweighing any gain in taxes avoided.
Hillary: Probably higher taxes, unsure future in re economic activity, but more stability going forward.
It's nearly a push. But Trump edges her out.
Instead, I voted for a third party candidate, against immediate interest.
So I'm voting selfishly how again?
It's funny. Here, I'm a selfish enabler. To Trump supporting people I know, I'm a fool who didn't know he'd usher in so much new development. You just can't win.
