"globalization": So, the Democrats (and the government at large, because the Republicans could have done this too when in power) should have enforced regulations on US companies to prevent them from outsourcing manufacturing? Is that what you are saying? More government regulation and oversight is what this country needed to support (and not betray) union labor?
Says the guy who voted three times for Trump... a guy that exclusively represents himself.
If I was a Republican strategist, this would be the plan. His base of lunatics are going to vote come hell or high water. All they need to do now is convince a small group of swing voters that “they’re all the same” and they stay home.
All they need to do is demotivate potential Democrat voters, which is pretty easy to do after a decade of decline and ballot-box confusion. Even a lot of regularly blue voters see the party as impotent and/or corrupt, and it's near-exclusive campaign focus on not being Trump but otherwise saying as little of consequence as possible, definitely fuels the coals of perilous apathy. 54% of the American public holds a negative opinion of the Donks [1]. Even among their own ranks, only 7 in 10 Democratic voters hold a favorable opinion of their own Party [2]. A Republican strategist doesn't need to turn those folks into turncoats, just make them feel as though their vote doesn't matter enough to make it worth the trouble of walking down to the poll.
We have already lost our democracy to big interests. Does not matter if your candidate is blue or red they are not going to represent you.
It makes absolutely no difference whether you vote for the blue candidate or the red one. They may say different things before they take office but their actions always support powerful interests in the end. Obvious interests which include supporting existing monopolies, killing people in far away places, inflating the monetary system, and being Israel's buttboy. In other words, everything that is important to your way of life.
This has long been true, but it is getting blatant. You know neither of California's gubernatorial candidates bothered to submit a statement for the official voter guide this year? How long does it take to copy and paste a paragraph? But, we aren't who they are accountable to.
Good. Please stay home and don't vote then if that's your belief.
The blue ones support justices that expand rights, not contract them.
Well, after the right-wing got the Heritage Foundation wish list achieved, there is some truth to that, but I'm not going to burden your mind with US Constitutional law and how the far right wing has broken it.
That reminds me of when the Canadian truckers were in Ottawa claiming tyranny as Ukrainians were fighting back an invasion by a nation that was trying to absorb them into their country.
Maybe not, but it remains of at least passing interest whether their big interests are going to have little impact on your life (D), or make your life vastly worse (R).
That is simply untrue. They may not represent you, but it is still far better to be ignored than it is to be robbed.
So, not important to your way of life:
I voted for Obama (D) so lets talk about how he improved our lives in the US and the way he bailed out the banks in 2008. The banks made all these bets they couldn't pay off so they were all going to go insolvent. But our government under Obama came in and made them whole. The government created that money and gave it to the banks. It was a shit ton of money. What they could have done is give that same amount to the people who owned homes and they could have saved the home owners and the banks at the same time. That did not happen because the people who run the government are the banking cartel who wanted to possess those homes. The default was structured so that the people would default on their loans but the banksters were made whole. 10 million families lost their homes under Barack Obama while he made sure the banksters were made whole and did not miss their bonus payments. Then other like minded cartels like Blackrock and other leaches were allowed to purchase those same homes at pennies on the dollar.
The biggest steps occurred under W (TARP), not Obama. However, I would have expected Obama to have done likewise, except not asking for a blank check like the W Admin did.
Actually, it was a shit ton of loan. In order to thaw the freeze, the big banks had to trust the other big banks had money. So the Government said you are taking this, shut up, you are paying interest back on it. It is clear you have absolutely no idea just how bad it got. Had the Government done nothing, everything was lost. In fact, I'm not even certain anyone would have known how to dig out of 'letting them fail', because the solvent banks would have become as insolvent as the insolvent banks became. Yes, the physical gold hoarders would have finally had their day, but there would not be anything left to buy.
Huge banks went out of business. Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual, Merrill Lynch, Countrywide all died. AIG was going to die. 140 banks died in 2009 alone. There was a severe consolidation because there was no where else to turn. It'd be nice if these big guys were split back up.
If what you say is true, what steps have the Democrats you are defending enacted making certain such a banking failure would not happen again? I guess I never heard that Glass Steagall had been enacted again. I would think the Democrats of all people would be worried to death about how bad it got and how close it was to going back to gold trading for services.
It would have been smarter to just bail out the homeowners by sending payments directly to the banks in the borrowers' names. But that didn't happen. The man you supported THRICE for the Presidency wouldn't have done bailed out homeowners. So what exactly is your beef?
I was responding to the argument that voting no longer matters in the US. Our political system has been captured by powerful interests meaning that the majority of the people are not represented.