Even the dumbest MAGA fool who can barely read and write knows that in general, they are becoming increasingly worse off. And they’re not wrong. They just don’t understand the “why” or “how”.
Instead of looking into it, they tend to cling to their nostalgic perception of whenever they think times were better. Mistakenly conflating their memories of the “good ol’ days” – which are heavily condensed because that’s just how the human brain works – with the ideal picture of life and society.
People like Trump are able to tap into that, promising to effectively turn back the clock, even though that’s impossible and complete bullshit. But, it resonates with those nostalgic desires and that creates a powerful bond, for better or worse.
If the Democrats want to stage a serious comeback, they’re going to have to take some pages from the playbooks of people like FDR and LBJ.
For instance, shore up Social Security and Medicare. Remove the income tax cap from Social Security. Give all the old Boomers a decent raise. Unprivatize all of Medicare and put it to work making sure that senior citizens get the best quality healthcare possible.
Do whatever it takes to ram that legislation through.
Worst case, Republicans oppose it (which they will) and you can drag each and every one of them through the mud.
The Democratic party, as it currently stands, isn’t going to do that because they don’t have the balls.
Until they grow some, were going to continue this death spiral into fascism led by charlatans making false promises about returning to some utopia that never truly existed.
This is cute from people who live under left leaning governments who tax them ever harder and erect more and more barriers to social mobility though taxation, needless bureaucracy and regulations, and then erect more and more horribly inefficient and fraud prone programs to ensure that those at the bottom are trapped at the bottom because they get a “free” home, food, etc, but if they work too hard, those are cut off, making them worse off than when they just suckled the government teat and accepted their lot in life, which means they cannot EVER raise themselves up due to being made worse off than they are if they try.
Then these people breed and create more and more government dependent subjects who have little choice but the suckle the government teat, and then they have kids, and their kids have kids, creating an ever growing army of dependent subjects that cement the charlatans in power in perpetuity.
I’m all for a social safety net. The problem is that Democrats have turned it into a social gill net. A net you can get into, but is very hard to escape from. You should look harder into how it works. There is a point where you go from getting the full benefits to getting nothing and it’s well below the line you’d need to be to not need it anymore. The system is specifically designed to never let you escape.
There’s a reason why multigenerational welfare dependence exists. It’s an intentional setup to ensure that people cannot become socially mobile because that negatively affects political parties that rely on having a large population of people in poverty to draw their power from. It’s called a benefits cliff. In many places, you’re better off sitting at the bottom, making almost nothing and suckling the government teat than fighting your way to financial independence. It traps people not only in poverty, but where they live because moving to a different state or sometimes even city to seek better opportunities means losing some or all of your benefits, putting them in a worse off situation.
Famously, the industrial capitalists of the industrial revolution allowed fantastic upward mobility for the people stuck in work houses. These people where given gruel and a leaking roof over their head for christ sakes! So dependant! They should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and worked 20 hours a day 7 days a week instead of 16 hours 6 days a week. Work sets you free, amirite?
You mean like tariffs? Which are a tax on US citizens who import foreign goods? And which are ultimately paid by people who consume foreign goods? Which is fucking everybody.
needless bureaucracy and regulations
Like what’s needed to implement tariffs?
The only thing more annoying than your right-wing rhetoric’s inaccuracy is how fucking tired it is.
Even the dumbest MAGA fool who can barely read and write knows that in general, they are becoming increasingly worse off. And they’re not wrong. They just don’t understand the “why” or “how”.
Instead of looking into it, they tend to cling to their nostalgic perception of whenever they think times were better. Mistakenly conflating their memories of the “good ol’ days” – which are heavily condensed because that’s just how the human brain works – with the ideal picture of life and society.
People like Trump are able to tap into that, promising to effectively turn back the clock, even though that’s impossible and complete bullshit. But, it resonates with those nostalgic desires and that creates a powerful bond, for better or worse.
If the Democrats want to stage a serious comeback, they’re going to have to take some pages from the playbooks of people like FDR and LBJ.
For instance, shore up Social Security and Medicare. Remove the income tax cap from Social Security. Give all the old Boomers a decent raise. Unprivatize all of Medicare and put it to work making sure that senior citizens get the best quality healthcare possible.
Do whatever it takes to ram that legislation through. Worst case, Republicans oppose it (which they will) and you can drag each and every one of them through the mud.
The Democratic party, as it currently stands, isn’t going to do that because they don’t have the balls. Until they grow some, were going to continue this death spiral into fascism led by charlatans making false promises about returning to some utopia that never truly existed.
This is cute from people who live under left leaning governments who tax them ever harder and erect more and more barriers to social mobility though taxation, needless bureaucracy and regulations, and then erect more and more horribly inefficient and fraud prone programs to ensure that those at the bottom are trapped at the bottom because they get a “free” home, food, etc, but if they work too hard, those are cut off, making them worse off than when they just suckled the government teat and accepted their lot in life, which means they cannot EVER raise themselves up due to being made worse off than they are if they try.
Then these people breed and create more and more government dependent subjects who have little choice but the suckle the government teat, and then they have kids, and their kids have kids, creating an ever growing army of dependent subjects that cement the charlatans in power in perpetuity.
What in the actual fuck are you on about? Some vaguely-racist, anti-welfare rant?
I’m all for a social safety net. The problem is that Democrats have turned it into a social gill net. A net you can get into, but is very hard to escape from. You should look harder into how it works. There is a point where you go from getting the full benefits to getting nothing and it’s well below the line you’d need to be to not need it anymore. The system is specifically designed to never let you escape.
There’s a reason why multigenerational welfare dependence exists. It’s an intentional setup to ensure that people cannot become socially mobile because that negatively affects political parties that rely on having a large population of people in poverty to draw their power from. It’s called a benefits cliff. In many places, you’re better off sitting at the bottom, making almost nothing and suckling the government teat than fighting your way to financial independence. It traps people not only in poverty, but where they live because moving to a different state or sometimes even city to seek better opportunities means losing some or all of your benefits, putting them in a worse off situation.
Famously, the industrial capitalists of the industrial revolution allowed fantastic upward mobility for the people stuck in work houses. These people where given gruel and a leaking roof over their head for christ sakes! So dependant! They should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and worked 20 hours a day 7 days a week instead of 16 hours 6 days a week. Work sets you free, amirite?
You mean like tariffs? Which are a tax on US citizens who import foreign goods? And which are ultimately paid by people who consume foreign goods? Which is fucking everybody.
Like what’s needed to implement tariffs?
The only thing more annoying than your right-wing rhetoric’s inaccuracy is how fucking tired it is.
I see another unserious person who can’t think beyond their political talking points.
Come back when you’re capable of thinking and speaking intelligently and not mindlessly spouting your political gods’ talking points.
I am also not “right wing” but you see anyone who doesn’t worship your poltiical gods as such, so I suppose you would see it that way.