MAGA - describe when America was “Great”
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Anonymous
How dare you mention that Republicans prioritized corp. profits for the very few at the top and decimated the labor force? That's why it's so laughable watching union workers vote Republican as if Trump and his daughter making cheap crap in third world sweatshops, will suddenly have American workers making it. |
Anonymous
Please define “functional “. Defining “better” would be great, too, but let’s start with “functional”. Quite a lot of what used to look functional on the surface involved alcohol, cigarettes, what now would be viewed as abusive behavior, and laws and social conventions that made it extremely difficult for women to leave highly problematic marriages. So many biographies from children who survived supposedly “functional nuclear families” — and those are just the stories that got published. |
Anonymous
Bush you say? The same Bush who's VP Darth Vader Dick Cheney is voting for Harris (along with many other holdouts from that administration and likely GWB himself, though I dont believe he has stated it publicly)? MAGA is a direct repudiation of neoconservatism from that era. |
Anonymous
Seriously? I have to further explain the point? The whole point of being a MAGA/right-winger is telling yourself "Affirmative Action" and "DEI" (and all of the other racist buzzwords used to diminish the accomplishments of predominantly non-whites), is how anyone non-white gets ahead. Meanwhile, you have complete idiots handed everything to them or you simply ignore how dumb they are (like Palin and her 6 years/5 mediocre colleges to get a BA in communications) and pretend they deserve to be president or VP or heading up Fortune 500 companies. The four presidents mentioned all earned what they have. This isn't about saying NO white males/females deserve to be in positions in power, it's the audacity on the right to shriek "DEI" when you vote for clowns handed everything and who had no business being accepted to the schools they got into. I don't understand how you people can't see your glaring hypocrisy when it comes to meritocracy. |
Anonymous
Or it's a time when the middle class was strong. You all are so obsessed about social equality that you ignore the real economic problems that are the result of giving away our economy and self sufficiency. Hunger Trump's social issues. |
Anonymous
ok, we agree. But you only mentioned the two didn't to make your earlier point, which was why I asked. |
Anonymous
And Qualcomm is and will be in a much better position to take advantage of the CHIPs program. Ask me how I know. |
Anonymous
| MAGAs will never accept that their antiquated worldview is what will kill America. A bunch of myopic goons listening to Trump tell them how wonderful America will be under him. Telling coal miners coal will come back. Meanwhile, he didn't do sh*t about infrastructure as other countries (full of non-whites) appear to be investing in their futures while this one is full of psychos making 10yo leave their state to get an abortion and thinking some trans athlete is their biggest problem. I'm absolutely against trans competing in sports that give them a biological advantage, but that sure as hell no where near the top of my list of priorities. |
Anonymous
My apologies. I should've been clearer. It's just galling to me listening to right-wing hypocrites pretend they care about "the best (wo)man for the job" and then try to tell me people who never had to earn what they have (all of whom are white), deserve what they have. No, Bush never deserved to be at Yale or HBS, so why are they so obsessed with some black kid with a 3.8 getting in, but ignoring the white legacy with the 2.0 (if that)? The instinct of the right-wing to believe anyone non-white got handed their place at a university or on the SC, is why I'm disgusted by them. |
Anonymous
the middle class was strong in the 1950's and 60's when unions were strong and the marginal tax rates for the top 20% was over 50%. |
Anonymous
Trump's policies are poor, but he is pointing out a number of flaws. If you invest strongly in America, you have a strong manufacturing base, you have domestic energy production, then you won't suffer as badly against global competitors It's a pretty easy message that other less damaged politicians could run on and implement. Both parties should focus on that stuff first, and foreign adventures and social issues can be worried about later. |
Anonymous
You’ve made important points. Those families weren’t perfect, yet their children became adults who could read and write. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
LOL at your flippant answer that the 1950s were so great because "things got better" for black Americans. Was just reading a review about a new book about Emmitt Till's murder. Ask your black friends and family members if they remember the 1950s fondly, when they had to act subservient, couldn't move into certain areas, couldn't get certain jobs or get into certain schools, and where representations of black Americans in movies were all painful stereotypes. And would you really, as a woman, go back to a time where casual sexism was rampant, where you'd have been asked to leave jobs if you got married or had children, where it wasn't illegal to pay you way less than your male colleagues for the same job, where you couldn't take out a mortgage or get a credit card without having a male co-sign? I hear you that you want to be a SAHM who is expected to wait hand and foot on your husband and children - fine. No one is stopping you from doing that now. Also, regarding your last sentence, why would you want to live in an era where your gay friends and family had to suppress themselves or risk being jailed for loving someone??? Yikes. |
Anonymous
Which one of those presidents came from a wealthy, privileged, connected family? Thanks for answering. |