kentuck (91,115 posts)
Democrats cannot defeat this threat alone.
Republicans must wake up and take a stand. Otherwise, the democracy we have known for our entire lives will be changed forever. What will replace it?
Will it be a fascist government, completely controlled by corporate interests?
That would be the 8 years of
MAObama, making deals with Global Corporations, using Crony Capitalism, i.e. Corporate Fascism, to give America high unemployment, the elimination of jobs for the lower-classes, to promote pessimism ("Those jobs are never coming back"), to limit economic growth to 1%, and most of all to teach AmeriKKKa a lesson by it making it the 37th best country on the planet.
My wife and I have been distributing “food to the poor” for some years. (The ironic quotation marks are used to indicate that in many cases the poverty is self-inflicted: they have plenty of money for multiple tattoos, piercings, thousands of cancer sticks, and all kinds of other Dumb Stuff.)
In the past 6 months, the number of people calling for a food delivery has dropped. We usually have made 6 deliveries per month, and since last autumn it has fallen to 3.
At a meeting the director was wondering why so many had stopped calling. I dared to suggest (because most of them are DEMS) that it was the Trump Economy and the return of lower-skilled jobs for which our clientele would qualify.
An icy silence followed, but I believe it is no coincidence: NOW HIRING signs are nearly on every other street corner or on 2 out 3 of businesses. Truck driver, warehouse work, assembler, fork-lift operator, etc. etc. etc.
The Leftists today must be like the robots in science fiction which are programmed not to hurt human beings, and then break down into static when ordered to shoot somebody!
I imagine a good number of Leftist brains are rumbling with static: “The facts show that free-market capitalism is working. and that Trump was right! But Trump can’t be right, because Obama said free-market capitalism was over and done with! But the facts show that…etc. ad infinitum”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GSd92zgqAs