Until the Republican party can change their "government is evil" BS, nothing will happen.HooDat wrote:What we need is BALANCE
the liberals need the conservatives and the conservatives need the liberals.
Society needs people who want to try new things and ideas and it need people who say - hey, we may want to think a little before we try THAT....
But now, the conservatives never say wait, and the liberals (as symbolized by the Clinton machine) have lost sight of their ideals.
Both parties are more interested in the fight - and have forgotten WHY they fight exists .... for the betterment of society....
I've asked this before. This is a SERIOUS problem: how do you govern Republican voters when they are in 1000% denial as to how they'd be totally screwed without a large Federal Government. You know, like the checks we're cutting to Farmers because of Trump's trade game. HooDat, did you see Grassley and a few D Congressmen applied for those free checks for their farms? That.
Until you can get them to admit that, for example, UVa is a world class, government owned and operated entity.....we're stuck. Because any spending or idea will be rejected.
Another example? Whining about "solar subsidies", while ignoring all the subsidies oil and gas get. It's childish, and keeping our country from moving forward.
Remember how Obama and the R's did NOTHING for 6 full years while the R's feigned fiscal prudence? That. This BS act that Republicans are playing has to stop. Until it does, we're stuck.
Have you noticed what Trump is doing: he's giving Republican voters the ability to maintain their illusion of self sufficiency. And boy, do they LOVE that. Spending under Trump dwarfs what Obama spent. And yet every Republican on my FB feed is bragging that conservatism is winning. It would take me, oh, about 10 minutes in a face to face discussion to DESTROY these people and their childish notions that they aren't awash in borrowed Federal funding, and socialism is not only lining their pockets...it's the only thing keeping them and their family out of the abyss. No one is challenging their ridiculous understanding of economics.
Witness the NYTimes that lays bare the fraud of Trump as the self-made man. I tried to tell you guy this----that all you had was Trump's word that all he got was $1 Million from his dad. Turns out, that was half a years allowance from daddy, and the actual inheritance was far larger. So as Obama said: you didn't build that.
