RVonse
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Jul 1, 2005
- Messages
- 3,390
- Location
- USA
- Basic Beliefs
- that people in the US are living in the matrx
1. America needs to be a producer again and not a consumer. America needs to produce more than it consumes!That all sounds very nice but it makes little sense. In what way does the average MAGA wish the USA to become great again? I ask, because e even the average MAGA supporter's real income is larger than it was 8 years ago. People have better access to health care on average. While we are not quite the envy of the rest of world, a big chunk of that is due to their savior, Donald Trump.I'm honestly not that sophisticated as to be able to relate all those embellishments into the average person wearing a MAGA hat. I very much think it depends on the eye of the beholder. In your eyes they are obviously all lumped into the lowest scum on this planet. But in the eyes of the average MAGA hat wearer, all they are hoping for is an America that is great again. Some MAGA supporters like RFK jr probably do not like Trump much better than you but since the current trajectory got us to a place they do not like they are willing to wear a slogan that promises making America great again. So yet I think those people literally believe what MAGA stands for and when you infer something drastically different there exists a lot of confusion.Well, that's rich. MAGA stands now for what it stood for 8 years ago: belligerence, calls for violence, insulting and obscene language about its opponents (hence the karma in labeling them as whatever infuriates them the most), xenophobic scare-mongering, homophobic scare-mongering, zany conspiracy theories about Democrats drinking baby blood, running child prostitution rings, etc., etc., etc. It is the last refuge of spineless Repub pols who, for a brief window in '15 and '16, and an even briefer one in '21, told the truth about this revolting movement and its leader. They are a stain on our history and traditions.MAGA stands for make America Great Again. What is so wrong with that? It once was a normal goal for an American to desire their country be great. Because if you don't think the country you live in should be great then pray tell us just why you think your country should suck? And if your goal is for the country you live in to suck, just what would you change to make it suck? More wokeness perhaps?
The left would do far better to promote a slogan (rather than MAGA) that actually addresses the xenophobic scare-mongering calls for violence that (Im guessing) 99% of everyone is against anyway. Communication would be much better anyway.
2. Washington needs to spend within its means again - Yes I know both sides get away with not paying large deficits, that Clinton was the only one in modern history balancing the budget, and that Trump is the king of spending. That being said, the MAGA movement is most concerned about this and Trump has agreed to put Musk in charge of trimming down government excess. It is estimated Musk could probably lay off half of government and most of us would not know the difference except the deficits would could be halved. As with Twitter, the government would probably start running better with less administrators.
3. We need to make people healthy again. Why does every other nation ban chemicals in their food that the US brings to its own market. We are obviously obese, unhealthy, and victims of the pharma and food industries. Can RFK jr fix this? I don't know but continuing Bidens path surely won't be the solution.
4. We need to secure our borders. Both sides say they want to fix this but only the Biden administration is in charge now. For all of Trumps stupidity and ignorance at least some of the stuff he did while president worked until Biden dismantled all of it when he came in. We know this from what little data exists and And yes, we do need immigration but we need to follow the law doing it.
5. We need to promote our own population reproducing again. That means a lot less "wokeness" and a lot more traditional family values. Which I know is all krytonite to the liberals... but what else can be suggested to get the incels out of their parents basement and back to getting layed by women again. A whole bunch of incels not getting married, layed, or in the whole of society is the guaranteed recipe for shootings and unnecessary violence.
6. The government needs to promote honest money that does not inflate and honest metrics of where the economy is. If average MAGA income is larger than it was 8 years ago it probably does not have the same buying power it did to inflation. But more worrisome than that is that the average MAGA supporter is highly concerned just how long the fed bubbles are going to inflate, and what happens when they explode like they did 2008. Furthermore, honest money (like bitcoin or gold standard) will promote increased economic activity due to firms knowing more easily price information. People will know without the usual CPI mumbo jumbo whether or not their homes are really worth more and whether the gross national produced is really going higher or lower.
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