Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

I'm sure somebody will tell me where I'm wrong. But don't harbor the belief there aren't people who agree with a good bit of what I said. Understand, they know what'll come their way - most often from you - if they do. So they don't.

You may want to consider whether you hear all sides of a disagreement here, or whether the invective you offer in response to what you don't like doesn't help to create an echo chamber of your own views. It's just a suggestion. No response needed.

Re: Cut the Bullshit
 

Good point. Medicare Part D is an abomination I overlooked. And their corporate welfare is atrocious. But in fairness, the Ds are also all about the corporate welfare.

The Ds have been the party of fiscal responsibility. Totally irrefutable. But the point I was making is, the Ds also run the "we got your back" angle with voters. The pitch is always, "we'll protect you and the safety nets."

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

This is not really fair. He was spot on about the "no horns in rock" thing.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

If it starts and ends with your pocketbook, it's only being rational.

(Of course, I haven't seen the proof for Hillary raising taxes. I don't recall her saying anything of the sort. But she's not exactly trustworthy, so...)

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

What you fail to understand (and I've said this a thousand times) is that there are very few actual choices given the trend of businesses consolidating and wealth moving upward to the pockets of a very few. Either we enact laws to check the rampant change of our system from moderate capitalism to super-capitalism (and that means regulation and the protection of unions from conservatives) or a level of redistribution via government programs (what you so ridiculously deem, "free stuff"). Unless you want to live in what would amount to India in the West or you are in favor of actual revolution where the poor eat the rich, that's it. Those are your choices.

Look, there's always a little bit of truth in what you say. But you swallow it with so much hyperbole and opinion you equate with universal truth that your posts coming out sounding like the ravings of a lunatic.

Your last sentence is so fucking ridiculous that I can't believe you even wrote it. If you think anyone on this board is avoiding agreeing with you because I will criticize them, you are a bigger knucklehead than I thought you were.

I think it is amazing that people like you think that people who disagree with you cannot hear what you're saying. If I critique a point or dismiss it as silly, best believe it's being heard. The fact that you can't accept that I hear your points, understand them, and still think they're highly ridiculous is not me not listening. It's you not being able to accept that I think what you're saying is stupid.

TM

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

O.K., it's time for me to come clean about a few things. I am one of those that Sebastian refers to who comes up with his "opinions" and "beliefs" based on not wanting to get criticized by you. I'm scared of you. Truth is, I don't even like rap. I think it's stupid. But I can't say that on this board. Look what you did to ferrets. You run this board with a Trumpian iron fist. WHICH IS TOTALLY IRONIC.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

First, nobody is as good at promising to bring yurrr jobs back as a lefty (see, Sanders, B.).

Second, the free stuff could happen if we had the political will. We just don't.

What Trump has realized is that these people don't really matter. Nor do the Christian social conservatives or small government libertarians.

All of them are people who have just been lying to themselves about how popular their ideas are while actually getting to office on the back of Trump-ist racist, misogynistic, xenophobes. Having been out-played on that front, they are all powerless.

Says the relatively affluent white man. Jesus man. Could you be any more selfish?

Re: Cut the Bullshit
 

Dude. Wars are corporate welfare.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

Yeah, and some people think there are no bagpipes in Reggae, but you and I, we have been through that, and that is not our thing.

Re: Seeking TM's Approval
 

Space cadet. I was pointing out that educated/well-healed voters are just as likely to be useless idiots as anyone else.

Take yourself, for example...

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

There is no proof at all for this.

If Hillary were to offer a serious, detailed policy of criminal justice reform, I'd switch from undecided to her. But she won't. She loves the law and order, put-all-the-super-predators-away voters.

The best reason for me to vote for her is naked self interest. Shit's good, and she'll keep it good. For me, and you, and everybody here. Trump's the only candidate with any capacity to surprise. But will he? Doubtful. If elected, he'll likely be Nixon's third term. Which isn't much different than Obama was (abysmal on press freedom and domestic surveillance) and Hillary will be.

Re: Seeking TM's Approval
 

Uh, reread.

Re: Cut the Bullshit
 

Proving my point that Ds aren't much different than Rs on corp welfare. Because if you want war, Hillary's your candidate.

Re: Cut the Bullshit
 

One of the things I'm really looking forward to in the coming days is seeing who gets to attack Trump for his mob ties. I'm betting De Blasio and Cuomo get in a pissing match over who gets to be the attack dog on this point.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

Which candidate is offering either of those options? You think Hillary's going to aggressively redistribute, or regulate? You do recall who sold the liberal wing of the Democratic Party down the river in the 90s, right?

It doesn't matter what I think, or you think, or how we vote. This country is already starting to look like Brazil. And neither candidate is going to radically alter it because the conventional wisdom is that such a societal split is the natural consequence of a shift toward a more globalized economy. And the moneyed interests driving politics don't want anything to change. Until the cost of foreign labor meets ours, we'll bleed. The only potential reset is a massive war, and I'm not even sure if that'd change much. (Oh, and tech's also eliminating jobs.)*

No candidate is offering a serious policy platform for saving the middle class except Sanders. And he's been marginalized as a kook.
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* What's ultimately needed is a full on global reconsideration of all of our economic systems to address a world in which fewer and fewer people are going to need to or be able to find work. But that's a Big Complex Conversation not even the smartest wonks would know how to initiate. And the developing world, for good reason, doesn't want to hear it (though China's reckoning with it right now, like it or not). They want to have their ascendance to a decadent Western culture before having to take their medicine.