America is just completely broken

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone feel this way? I am struggling really hard to identify ways in which my life has gotten better in the US over the last 25 years. Everything just feels like it has gotten infinitely worse in my lifetime.

Healthcare is an absolute joke and trash in the US. Premiums skyrocket while the quality of sevice seems to constantly circle the proverbial toilet. Trying to find a PCP is a maddening experience. Then dealing with insurance companies trying to weasel out of paying for a procedure or who incessantly refuse to pay for drugs prescribed....totally exhausting.

Roads, tunnels, bridges, and infrastructure falling apart everywhere. We are supposed to be first world country, yet it takes months to fix a simple pothole, and people in Flint Michigan don't even have potable water.

Constant and oppressive gun violence. It is so bad mass shootings barely crack the national media these days, because they're just routine life in America.

Insurance rates for everything else exploding. Astronomical housing costs. Out of control food prices. Unaffordable education and childcare. $52,000 "family cars". Just absurd.

Meanwhile, US is embroiled in yet another forever war costing $3B/day. We don't have money to help our citizens afford healthcare premiums yet we have infinite dollars for shooting drones down 8000 miles away. Now out country's reputation on the world stage is utter trash and in the dumpster. We are the bad guys in billions of peoples' eyes. And we continue to blow up our national debt that's going to be so bad soon that the costs to simply service our debt will eat huge amounts of our budget for future generations. Oh, and social security? Ha, good luck expecting to benefit from it in the future. They're gonna make us work until 79 before we are allowed to tap benefits.

And finally, everything seems to be ensh*ttified (ES) or on its way to being ES. Our corporate overlords now tell us we aren't allowed to own anything. Oh, you want to use the heat in your car? Pay a subscription. Oh, you want to buy a phone? Sign all of your privacy away. Buy a fridge, dryer, or washer? ES now. Can't access their features unless ypu connect it to the internet and agree to have your home streamed with infinite ads on the main screen.

Jobs? So unstable these days. Oh you want a new job? That'll take 879 applications to get an interview. Every app requiring the use of AI to get around AI screeners. Every app asking for a resume but then asking on the next screen questions that are answerable with information from your resume and they want you to type it out all over again.

Ughh, the US is just broken. Has anyone's life gotten better over the last two decades? I'm just exhausted and done. The entire country feels like a gigantic scam and hustle that benefits the few while those of us simply wanting to live a simple life are destroyed.

End rant.

Yes, it is broken. but broken for workers. college educated urban elites are quite happy.

It started with the flush of blue collar jobs to mexico and we as a culture did very little to help these US workers.
it continued with the replacement of US tech workers by H1Bs and OPTs and L1s, all to enrich big tech companies, and we as a culture ENCOURAGED THIS and did nothing to help US tech workers, especially older tech workers.
It willl continue with AI as the urban elites flush any other US worker left.

you urban elites created this mess by not caring or helping your fellow US workers.

not like this in the scandinavian countries that actually have a culture.

you know the "urban elites" includes Trump, right?

Also, the US does have a culture. It's a culture of capitalism, where "greed is good", and "let me find ways to make more money". Are you saying the US should be more like the socialist Scandinavian countries where they have incredibly social welfare and high taxes?

Why do Democrats have such a hard timing understanding who we're talking about?

Reminds me of the other thread where they tried to blame our problems on greedy people instead of immigration, but the greedy people are the ones that are pro-immigration.

I know tough concept, for you, but it's really not that hard for us.

Because your hate is keeping you from fully seeing the problem. You're trying to make IMMIGRANTS the problem, when they are victims of the same greedy people as you. They are not your enemy. Their countries have been raided for resources and destabilized. They come here because they have to. This is where all the resources have gone. The fact that we are all fighting for scraps is because of the greedy people at the top. Not the people at the very bottom of the system just literally trying to survive.

The (artificial) scarcity is the issue, and the people creating the (artificial) scarcity.

You can feel and see the effects of the problem, but you continue to blame the wrong people. You believe their lies and find comfort in the hate they feed you as a salve. And it leads you to choose leaders who have no intention of fixing the problem, specifically because they benefit from it. This is true of Democrats and Republicans, but it is baked into conservative politics. They use social issues to blind you to the fact that they are robbing you.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone feel this way? I am struggling really hard to identify ways in which my life has gotten better in the US over the last 25 years. Everything just feels like it has gotten infinitely worse in my lifetime.

Healthcare is an absolute joke and trash in the US. Premiums skyrocket while the quality of sevice seems to constantly circle the proverbial toilet. Trying to find a PCP is a maddening experience. Then dealing with insurance companies trying to weasel out of paying for a procedure or who incessantly refuse to pay for drugs prescribed....totally exhausting.

Roads, tunnels, bridges, and infrastructure falling apart everywhere. We are supposed to be first world country, yet it takes months to fix a simple pothole, and people in Flint Michigan don't even have potable water.

Constant and oppressive gun violence. It is so bad mass shootings barely crack the national media these days, because they're just routine life in America.

Insurance rates for everything else exploding. Astronomical housing costs. Out of control food prices. Unaffordable education and childcare. $52,000 "family cars". Just absurd.

Meanwhile, US is embroiled in yet another forever war costing $3B/day. We don't have money to help our citizens afford healthcare premiums yet we have infinite dollars for shooting drones down 8000 miles away. Now out country's reputation on the world stage is utter trash and in the dumpster. We are the bad guys in billions of peoples' eyes. And we continue to blow up our national debt that's going to be so bad soon that the costs to simply service our debt will eat huge amounts of our budget for future generations. Oh, and social security? Ha, good luck expecting to benefit from it in the future. They're gonna make us work until 79 before we are allowed to tap benefits.

And finally, everything seems to be ensh*ttified (ES) or on its way to being ES. Our corporate overlords now tell us we aren't allowed to own anything. Oh, you want to use the heat in your car? Pay a subscription. Oh, you want to buy a phone? Sign all of your privacy away. Buy a fridge, dryer, or washer? ES now. Can't access their features unless ypu connect it to the internet and agree to have your home streamed with infinite ads on the main screen.

Jobs? So unstable these days. Oh you want a new job? That'll take 879 applications to get an interview. Every app requiring the use of AI to get around AI screeners. Every app asking for a resume but then asking on the next screen questions that are answerable with information from your resume and they want you to type it out all over again.

Ughh, the US is just broken. Has anyone's life gotten better over the last two decades? I'm just exhausted and done. The entire country feels like a gigantic scam and hustle that benefits the few while those of us simply wanting to live a simple life are destroyed.

End rant.

Yes, it is broken. but broken for workers. college educated urban elites are quite happy.

It started with the flush of blue collar jobs to mexico and we as a culture did very little to help these US workers.
it continued with the replacement of US tech workers by H1Bs and OPTs and L1s, all to enrich big tech companies, and we as a culture ENCOURAGED THIS and did nothing to help US tech workers, especially older tech workers.
It willl continue with AI as the urban elites flush any other US worker left.

you urban elites created this mess by not caring or helping your fellow US workers.

not like this in the scandinavian countries that actually have a culture.

you know the "urban elites" includes Trump, right?

Also, the US does have a culture. It's a culture of capitalism, where "greed is good", and "let me find ways to make more money". Are you saying the US should be more like the socialist Scandinavian countries where they have incredibly social welfare and high taxes?

Why do Democrats have such a hard timing understanding who we're talking about?

Reminds me of the other thread where they tried to blame our problems on greedy people instead of immigration, but the greedy people are the ones that are pro-immigration.

I know tough concept, for you, but it's really not that hard for us.

Sure, I mean Trump is greedy, and he's pro immigration, after all, two of his three wives are immigrants, and his current wife used chain migration to bring her entire commie family here. Vance is also pro immigration given his wife's family are all immigrants.

Why does MAGA have a hard time understanding that Trump says one thing but does another. Is is it a cult, with Trump as their cult leader? Appears to be so. MAGA may be blind to this, but the rest of us are not. We see Trump for who he truly he is, which is definitely not the savior of this country, as we are seeing.

Newsflash: the US has *always* been about capitalism, and greed. It isn't called the "land of opportunities" for nothing. You understand that like 90% of Americans are descendants of these immigrants who came here for their slice of the capitalist pie, right? Including Trump's mother from a former sh*thole country, and grandfather dodging conscription in Germany.

More than likely, even your ancestor came here from a former sh*thole country looking for their slice of capitalism pie.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree OP. It feels like everything is falling apart and there's very little we can do to fix it. It took everyone too long to realize what was happening. I'm struggling not to resent the older generations around me who let it get this bad. I'm grieving the children I will never have because I cannot afford it and because it feels morally wrong to bring a child into this just so I can experience motherhood.

I mean this kindly:
Get a grip. Read history. Look at all of the wars, famine, disease. There is nothing new under the sun. If you want to have a kid, have one. It is no worse now than 99% of human history. It is not objectively worse to have kids now than at any other time in history except maybe the 50s but would you really want to be a woman back in the 50s?

And also with the “I can’t afford kids”. Stop being brainwashed into thinking you have to have all of your financials figured out and perfect before you have a kid. Believe me, DCUM would have judged me quite harshly for having a kid when our HHI was 45k back in 2007, with no house, a crappy old car, and not being able to afford daycare. We did it anyway, and had two. Now they are in HS. I figured out my career once the kids were school aged. We were able to buy a house and sending DC1 to college next year. It hasn’t all been perfect - they didn’t do all the fancy activities, didn’t get the fancy Disney vacations or lots of expensive toys, but I would absolutely do it again, even if it meant using welfare and food stamps and living in a tiny apartment. There is really nothing else that gives life purpose as much as having kids.

I am 57. My kids are 23 and 27. I can tell you that it is SO much more expensive now. Shockingly so. I made a decent living when they were smaller, but housing and everything else was cheaper. Homeownership felt attainable on our salaries. Daycare was attainable on our salaries. My first house in 1998 was $142,000 in DC. It sold for $895k in 2017. Salaries didn't go up that much in that timeframe. I was in law school and my husband worked. We felt fine. That does not exist anymore. Kids are so much fore expensive.

People do spend more on kids now, but how much of that is caused by capitalist greed, and how much of it is caused by us trying to outcompete each other trying to launch our kids into the “best” universities and careers? As a current parent of teens heading to college soon, I can tell you it is so, so much. And we are all complicit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone feel this way? I am struggling really hard to identify ways in which my life has gotten better in the US over the last 25 years. Everything just feels like it has gotten infinitely worse in my lifetime.

Healthcare is an absolute joke and trash in the US. Premiums skyrocket while the quality of sevice seems to constantly circle the proverbial toilet. Trying to find a PCP is a maddening experience. Then dealing with insurance companies trying to weasel out of paying for a procedure or who incessantly refuse to pay for drugs prescribed....totally exhausting.

Roads, tunnels, bridges, and infrastructure falling apart everywhere. We are supposed to be first world country, yet it takes months to fix a simple pothole, and people in Flint Michigan don't even have potable water.

Constant and oppressive gun violence. It is so bad mass shootings barely crack the national media these days, because they're just routine life in America.

Insurance rates for everything else exploding. Astronomical housing costs. Out of control food prices. Unaffordable education and childcare. $52,000 "family cars". Just absurd.

Meanwhile, US is embroiled in yet another forever war costing $3B/day. We don't have money to help our citizens afford healthcare premiums yet we have infinite dollars for shooting drones down 8000 miles away. Now out country's reputation on the world stage is utter trash and in the dumpster. We are the bad guys in billions of peoples' eyes. And we continue to blow up our national debt that's going to be so bad soon that the costs to simply service our debt will eat huge amounts of our budget for future generations. Oh, and social security? Ha, good luck expecting to benefit from it in the future. They're gonna make us work until 79 before we are allowed to tap benefits.

And finally, everything seems to be ensh*ttified (ES) or on its way to being ES. Our corporate overlords now tell us we aren't allowed to own anything. Oh, you want to use the heat in your car? Pay a subscription. Oh, you want to buy a phone? Sign all of your privacy away. Buy a fridge, dryer, or washer? ES now. Can't access their features unless ypu connect it to the internet and agree to have your home streamed with infinite ads on the main screen.

Jobs? So unstable these days. Oh you want a new job? That'll take 879 applications to get an interview. Every app requiring the use of AI to get around AI screeners. Every app asking for a resume but then asking on the next screen questions that are answerable with information from your resume and they want you to type it out all over again.

Ughh, the US is just broken. Has anyone's life gotten better over the last two decades? I'm just exhausted and done. The entire country feels like a gigantic scam and hustle that benefits the few while those of us simply wanting to live a simple life are destroyed.

End rant.

Yes, it is broken. but broken for workers. college educated urban elites are quite happy.

It started with the flush of blue collar jobs to mexico and we as a culture did very little to help these US workers.
it continued with the replacement of US tech workers by H1Bs and OPTs and L1s, all to enrich big tech companies, and we as a culture ENCOURAGED THIS and did nothing to help US tech workers, especially older tech workers.
It willl continue with AI as the urban elites flush any other US worker left.

you urban elites created this mess by not caring or helping your fellow US workers.

not like this in the scandinavian countries that actually have a culture.

you know the "urban elites" includes Trump, right?

Also, the US does have a culture. It's a culture of capitalism, where "greed is good", and "let me find ways to make more money". Are you saying the US should be more like the socialist Scandinavian countries where they have incredibly social welfare and high taxes?

Why do Democrats have such a hard timing understanding who we're talking about?

Reminds me of the other thread where they tried to blame our problems on greedy people instead of immigration, but the greedy people are the ones that are pro-immigration.

I know tough concept, for you, but it's really not that hard for us.

Because your hate is keeping you from fully seeing the problem. You're trying to make IMMIGRANTS the problem, when they are victims of the same greedy people as you. They are not your enemy. Their countries have been raided for resources and destabilized. They come here because they have to. This is where all the resources have gone. The fact that we are all fighting for scraps is because of the greedy people at the top. Not the people at the very bottom of the system just literally trying to survive.

The (artificial) scarcity is the issue, and the people creating the (artificial) scarcity.

You can feel and see the effects of the problem, but you continue to blame the wrong people. You believe their lies and find comfort in the hate they feed you as a salve. And it leads you to choose leaders who have no intention of fixing the problem, specifically because they benefit from it. This is true of Democrats and Republicans, but it is baked into conservative politics. They use social issues to blind you to the fact that they are robbing you.

+1 but it's easier for MAGA to blame poor immigrants than rich people like Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the US is being stripped for parts, like we've been purchased by a private equity firm. Assume the us average citizens are going to be left with only the debt.

Yes, that is more or less how the Democrat platform works. It goes like this. They are opportunistic. They wait until something destabilizes the political system. The great recession and Covid come to mind. They then take on large donations and make big promises. Then they implement things for their donors but only make superficial or temporary changes that people want. Historically a good example is the Federal Minimum wage, it was probably a good deal for little while. Biden ran on I forgot what, but they spent four years trying to pass amnesty, then they fell on their swords because they didn't get enough votes instead of enacting anything we wanted, or they promised to their large donors. Biden spent more time and issued more executive orders on immigration than anything else. That was the big problem for the Democrats, Trump did well enough that they didn't get a return on their political investments, so no one wants to invest in the Democrats anymore, because they are too expensive. Kamala ran the most expensive campaign and failed; no one is going to fund that again. These people are capitalists, they expect returns, but there isn't anything there anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree OP. It feels like everything is falling apart and there's very little we can do to fix it. It took everyone too long to realize what was happening. I'm struggling not to resent the older generations around me who let it get this bad. I'm grieving the children I will never have because I cannot afford it and because it feels morally wrong to bring a child into this just so I can experience motherhood.

I mean this kindly:
Get a grip. Read history. Look at all of the wars, famine, disease. There is nothing new under the sun. If you want to have a kid, have one. It is no worse now than 99% of human history. It is not objectively worse to have kids now than at any other time in history except maybe the 50s but would you really want to be a woman back in the 50s?

And also with the “I can’t afford kids”. Stop being brainwashed into thinking you have to have all of your financials figured out and perfect before you have a kid. Believe me, DCUM would have judged me quite harshly for having a kid when our HHI was 45k back in 2007, with no house, a crappy old car, and not being able to afford daycare. We did it anyway, and had two. Now they are in HS. I figured out my career once the kids were school aged. We were able to buy a house and sending DC1 to college next year. It hasn’t all been perfect - they didn’t do all the fancy activities, didn’t get the fancy Disney vacations or lots of expensive toys, but I would absolutely do it again, even if it meant using welfare and food stamps and living in a tiny apartment. There is really nothing else that gives life purpose as much as having kids.

I am 57. My kids are 23 and 27. I can tell you that it is SO much more expensive now. Shockingly so. I made a decent living when they were smaller, but housing and everything else was cheaper. Homeownership felt attainable on our salaries. Daycare was attainable on our salaries. My first house in 1998 was $142,000 in DC. It sold for $895k in 2017. Salaries didn't go up that much in that timeframe. I was in law school and my husband worked. We felt fine. That does not exist anymore. Kids are so much fore expensive.

People do spend more on kids now, but how much of that is caused by capitalist greed, and how much of it is caused by us trying to outcompete each other trying to launch our kids into the “best” universities and careers? As a current parent of teens heading to college soon, I can tell you it is so, so much. And we are all complicit.

Parents are always going to do everything they can to give their kids the best chance at success. The problem is how expensive it has gotten to do that.

A college degree was once a golden ticket to a middle class lifestyle. It's not anymore. The bar kids have to meet to be successful keeps rising, and that means more and more resources are required to get them there.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the US is being stripped for parts, like we've been purchased by a private equity firm. Assume the us average citizens are going to be left with only the debt.

This is such a good analogy!

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Sucks as it does, we will consume less, hopefully. That IMO is the worst thing about Americans. We consume so damn much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree OP. It feels like everything is falling apart and there's very little we can do to fix it. It took everyone too long to realize what was happening. I'm struggling not to resent the older generations around me who let it get this bad. I'm grieving the children I will never have because I cannot afford it and because it feels morally wrong to bring a child into this just so I can experience motherhood.

I mean this kindly:
Get a grip. Read history. Look at all of the wars, famine, disease. There is nothing new under the sun. If you want to have a kid, have one. It is no worse now than 99% of human history. It is not objectively worse to have kids now than at any other time in history except maybe the 50s but would you really want to be a woman back in the 50s?

And also with the “I can’t afford kids”. Stop being brainwashed into thinking you have to have all of your financials figured out and perfect before you have a kid. Believe me, DCUM would have judged me quite harshly for having a kid when our HHI was 45k back in 2007, with no house, a crappy old car, and not being able to afford daycare. We did it anyway, and had two. Now they are in HS. I figured out my career once the kids were school aged. We were able to buy a house and sending DC1 to college next year. It hasn’t all been perfect - they didn’t do all the fancy activities, didn’t get the fancy Disney vacations or lots of expensive toys, but I would absolutely do it again, even if it meant using welfare and food stamps and living in a tiny apartment. There is really nothing else that gives life purpose as much as having kids.

I am 57. My kids are 23 and 27. I can tell you that it is SO much more expensive now. Shockingly so. I made a decent living when they were smaller, but housing and everything else was cheaper. Homeownership felt attainable on our salaries. Daycare was attainable on our salaries. My first house in 1998 was $142,000 in DC. It sold for $895k in 2017. Salaries didn't go up that much in that timeframe. I was in law school and my husband worked. We felt fine. That does not exist anymore. Kids are so much fore expensive.

People do spend more on kids now, but how much of that is caused by capitalist greed, and how much of it is caused by us trying to outcompete each other trying to launch our kids into the “best” universities and careers? As a current parent of teens heading to college soon, I can tell you it is so, so much. And we are all complicit.

Resource scarcity for the UMC. If you are UMC, you want your kids to live an UMC lifestyle, as well. And that means good paying jobs, and that means good universities for the most part.

I come from a lower income immigrant family but was able to work my way up to be UMC. My kids know no other life than the lower end of UMC, but they have never seen us struggle financially. I know what that is like and don't want them to suffer it. Being MC is even hard now a days given inflation, and wages never keep up with inflation.

The job market really sucks right now. I'm hoping next year it will be better when my DC graduates from grad school. They have an internship at a quant firm and are hoping for a return offer, but who knows? If the economy really stinks they may not give return offers to a lot of interns. If they do get a return offer, they will be set. But I worry for my younger DC who is not majoring in a lucrative career.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the US is being stripped for parts, like we've been purchased by a private equity firm. Assume the us average citizens are going to be left with only the debt.

This is such a good analogy!

70% of the US economy is driven by consumer spending. If that goes down even further than now, the economy will be in a recession.

But, yes, we do consume too much crap.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree OP. It feels like everything is falling apart and there's very little we can do to fix it. It took everyone too long to realize what was happening. I'm struggling not to resent the older generations around me who let it get this bad. I'm grieving the children I will never have because I cannot afford it and because it feels morally wrong to bring a child into this just so I can experience motherhood.

I mean this kindly:
Get a grip. Read history. Look at all of the wars, famine, disease. There is nothing new under the sun. If you want to have a kid, have one. It is no worse now than 99% of human history. It is not objectively worse to have kids now than at any other time in history except maybe the 50s but would you really want to be a woman back in the 50s?

And also with the “I can’t afford kids”. Stop being brainwashed into thinking you have to have all of your financials figured out and perfect before you have a kid. Believe me, DCUM would have judged me quite harshly for having a kid when our HHI was 45k back in 2007, with no house, a crappy old car, and not being able to afford daycare. We did it anyway, and had two. Now they are in HS. I figured out my career once the kids were school aged. We were able to buy a house and sending DC1 to college next year. It hasn’t all been perfect - they didn’t do all the fancy activities, didn’t get the fancy Disney vacations or lots of expensive toys, but I would absolutely do it again, even if it meant using welfare and food stamps and living in a tiny apartment. There is really nothing else that gives life purpose as much as having kids.

I am 57. My kids are 23 and 27. I can tell you that it is SO much more expensive now. Shockingly so. I made a decent living when they were smaller, but housing and everything else was cheaper. Homeownership felt attainable on our salaries. Daycare was attainable on our salaries. My first house in 1998 was $142,000 in DC. It sold for $895k in 2017. Salaries didn't go up that much in that timeframe. I was in law school and my husband worked. We felt fine. That does not exist anymore. Kids are so much fore expensive.

People do spend more on kids now, but how much of that is caused by capitalist greed, and how much of it is caused by us trying to outcompete each other trying to launch our kids into the “best” universities and careers? As a current parent of teens heading to college soon, I can tell you it is so, so much. And we are all complicit.

Parents are always going to do everything they can to give their kids the best chance at success. The problem is how expensive it has gotten to do that.

A college degree was once a golden ticket to a middle class lifestyle. It's not anymore. The bar kids have to meet to be successful keeps rising, and that means more and more resources are required to get them there.

Yes, because it has become a vicious cycle of one-upmanship and no one wants to be the first to drop the rope.
The definition of a “middle class” lifestyle has also changed drastically.
We are going to drive ourselves to extinction if we continue to insist upon and feed this system as though nothing else is possible. Meanwhile, poorer people will continue to reproduce.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the US is being stripped for parts, like we've been purchased by a private equity firm. Assume the us average citizens are going to be left with only the debt.

Yes, that is more or less how the Democrat platform works. It goes like this. They are opportunistic. They wait until something destabilizes the political system. The great recession and Covid come to mind. They then take on large donations and make big promises. Then they implement things for their donors but only make superficial or temporary changes that people want. Historically a good example is the Federal Minimum wage, it was probably a good deal for little while. Biden ran on I forgot what, but they spent four years trying to pass amnesty, then they fell on their swords because they didn't get enough votes instead of enacting anything we wanted, or they promised to their large donors. Biden spent more time and issued more executive orders on immigration than anything else. That was the big problem for the Democrats, Trump did well enough that they didn't get a return on their political investments, so no one wants to invest in the Democrats anymore, because they are too expensive. Kamala ran the most expensive campaign and failed; no one is going to fund that again. These people are capitalists, they expect returns, but there isn't anything there anymore.

Trump is selling spots on his PAC to sell national secrets. GMAFB. He's the biggest, immoral capitalist of them all.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the US is being stripped for parts, like we've been purchased by a private equity firm. Assume the us average citizens are going to be left with only the debt.

Republicans plan to sell off the Post Office, intelligence briefings are now being sold the to the highest bidder during the Trump administration. And this is just what we have been allowed to hear this month.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the US is being stripped for parts, like we've been purchased by a private equity firm. Assume the us average citizens are going to be left with only the debt.

Yes, that is more or less how the Democrat platform works. It goes like this. They are opportunistic. They wait until something destabilizes the political system. The great recession and Covid come to mind. They then take on large donations and make big promises. Then they implement things for their donors but only make superficial or temporary changes that people want. Historically a good example is the Federal Minimum wage, it was probably a good deal for little while. Biden ran on I forgot what, but they spent four years trying to pass amnesty, then they fell on their swords because they didn't get enough votes instead of enacting anything we wanted, or they promised to their large donors. Biden spent more time and issued more executive orders on immigration than anything else. That was the big problem for the Democrats, Trump did well enough that they didn't get a return on their political investments, so no one wants to invest in the Democrats anymore, because they are too expensive. Kamala ran the most expensive campaign and failed; no one is going to fund that again. These people are capitalists, they expect returns, but there isn't anything there anymore.

Trump is selling spots on his PAC to sell national secrets. GMAFB. He's the biggest, immoral capitalist of them all.

He actually does the things that we want sometimes though. We take what we can get. If only the Democrats were half as responsive and actually delivered.

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While globalism and NAFTA made things cheaper and easier for Americans for a bit, they’ve succeeded in generally bringing down the underlying infrastructure that had essentially made us unique, successful, and largely self-reliant.

Outsourcing to other countries made a select few even more powerful and richer while the masses were relegated to a lower level of living. ICYMI: both parties are to blame, and this happened long before Trump landed in the WH the first time.

Having said that, we are still better off than most countries…as evidenced by the fact that thousands risk their lives to come here for a shot at the American dream. For the rest of us who enjoyed a higher standard of living without feeling the struggle, everything just seems worse…almost hopeless.