Bootney Lee Farnsworth
Diamond Member
And it's usually a fake-ass pro-wrestling "fight" for optics. They are both slaves to the military/industrial complex, which is why they hate Trump so fucking much. Billions in foreign military support have been shut down or are threatened and the M/IC (which rules both parties) will not have it.I was pointing out (I edited my post you responded to by the way) that the Democrats are not bold enough to take ground. They are playing the same hand the same way and relying on the GOP being so repugnant. I was pointing out a way that, I think, they could gain some ground proactively. The middle class voters think the Democrats don't understand them. they are pretty much right. Imagine what would happen if you shifted the paradigm away from the same-old same-old to some really inventive thinking to where, again, you don't have three generations of the same family working at Wal*Mart or for the school district. There is nothing wrong with those jobs. Its just that those jobs are a lot times, the only options. Pay for thousands of HS grads to go to UTI or Lincoln Tech. Its a way to perhaps change the "ugly reality".I don't see this happening until we change the election system. The two party nonsense thrives on division. The parties define themselves in opposition. They focus solely on our disagreements, and disregard that fact that we're all on the same side.A win is a win. But yeah...both parties are losing ground and hopefully a sensible centrist 3rd party will emerge.This is just a guess, of course, but somewhere around 48% of those who vote in November will be voting for Donald Trump. Without going into the laundry list of obvious examples or any of the standard talking points, there are certainly plenty of reasons not to. Yet he has a perfectly reasonable chance of winning.
Right now, polls show that about 43% of Americans approve of the job he's doing. This, after everything that has happened, and that number should be a very sobering indication of where this country is right now. Personally, I try to understand how these people can do this, but I still only understand some of it.
Anyway, here's the point: Elections are about contrasts. Choices. How can that many people support this disaster of a person? For many of them, they're looking at the alternative. And when those who provide their information and opinions for them point at things like PC and Identity Politics and Cancel Culture and an overall culture in decay, they can make reasonable points not to vote for the Democratic party. Even with, amazingly, this profoundly damaged person in the White House.
It's certainly too late to make any changes before November, but the Democratic party had a chance to take over the middle, and I don't see that happening. There is no excuse, zero, none, for the race to be this close. Regardless of who wins, the Democrats have too often allowed the wrong voices to represent them. It allows the Trumpsters to tie all the silliest crap coming from the hardcore Left to the milquetoast, feeble Biden.
This should be a learning experience, but I'm doubtful.
I should know better but here it goes...
Imagine what would happen if Biden put into place a plan to pay for education like we have for social security except reverse it. With SS you pay all your work life and then get a reward at the end. Pay for two years of the education/job training up front (books, tuition, fees, uniforms, etc...) and then deduct the costs of it over the working life. But (as anyone who has had work on their car done can tell you) waive the repayment or part of the repayment if you go into the trades such as auto/body or ac/refrigeration technician. Make it available to anyone who wants to learn. If you're graduating high school...you're able to go to college right off the bat. If you're already in the work force, you can go back on your own schedule. If you're already into a career and want to, I don't know, learn another language to get a? promotion... Joe's got you covered.
Anyway...imagine the families in the smaller towns in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania whose kids are graduating with two options; work at the Wal*Mart or the Dairy Queen. Perhaps they could see a new possibility if such a program was in place to where they didn't need to qualify for a loan using a formula written by some think thank, they didn't need to worry about books, tuition, fees, or uniforms, they didn't need to do anything other than show up and learn. Perhaps they could get a job repairing diesel engines or become a nurse instead of just accepting their fate in retail. Its not only good policy...it's good politics. We need to get this done tomorrow!
What does that have to do with the conversation? Were you perhaps responding to a different post?
Oh, ok. I don't think that would really address the issue. Two opposed parties is baked into our election system. They're always going to find something to fight about.
Biden is a big-time M/IC hawk. So are the Bush boys (even worse).