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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel so politically lost.  I grew up in a "vote Democrat or die" home and was raised to believe that Republicans were the source of all problems in America.  However, as the Democrats moved further to the left and I saw firsthand how the culture and policies of dependency impacted my family, I identified less and less with Democrats (I'm also a closeted pro-lifer and I'm not very sympathetic to illegal immigration so that doesn't help in today's Democratic Party).  However, the current GOP is repulsive and amoral and there's no way in heck I can support their agenda which I think is chipping away at our democracy.  I'm not going to vote Republican (haven't since Bush at the national level), but I don't feel wanted by the Democrats, so I feel lost.  Voting for a 3rd party might feel emotionally right but won't help to solve our nation's problems.  Is anyone else feeling lost and disillusioned in today's political world?  If so, how are you coping with it?[/quote]

I feel you. The two party system is so antiquated.

I am socially progressive and fiscally libertarian. Luckily there is a perfect candidate for millions like myself -- Andrew Yang. He doesn't judge the voters of either political spectrum, and only talks about the merits of a set of forward thinking solutions. Yang doesn't believe illegal immigration is the cause of the loss of millions jobs in the swing states. But he understands why many people felt that way. He intends to solve that problem.[/quote]

How?[/quote]

Are you asking about illegal immigration? Yang's flagship proposal is $1000 a month for every adult US citizen. Illegal immigrants are not eligible. Even though illegal immigration is not the cause of the loss of jobs in swing states, his proposal has a side effect of giving displaced workers a leg up over illegal immigrants. His plan is all about decreasing the illegal immigration, and attracting them to go through the legal channel to ultimately becoming citizens. He is for increasing guest worker programs and strengthening cooperation with Mexican government so they come legally and leave timely when work is done. Neither party in power has presented any real solutions. Trump has not built any new wall, and there doesn't seem to be any compromise possible. Yang is for border security and the solutions proposed by groups across the political spectrum.[/quote]

I find Yang’s ideas interesting (except for the $1,000/mo idea - weird), but, I’m not interested in an idea person. I’m interested in a pragmatist who can build support, make compromises, and get things passed. [/quote]

That seems to be his biggest problem - "he is literally trying to give everybody money" but many have never heard of him or some like you are suspicious about it.

https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1195520687286308864

For me, if I think in a macro economics sense, the idea becomes less - weird. We have a $20 trillion economy which is made up of total cash and credit spending. Yang wants to rearrange it and return a slice of it, about 12% to citizens, which then gets recycled in the economy over and over. You are looking at a small scale of reallocation of economic resources, so the poor and middle class get a share of the wealth created by big business and machines.[/quote]

I’m not entirely comfortable with our economy being “rearranged”.....who would pay for this? How would it happen? Would Republicans in Congress, or even Democrats, agree to this? I don’t think so. It’s just an idea! [b]We can’t even do small things in Congress, were so dysfunctional.[/b] [/quote]

This is the biggest issue for 2020 - get the GOP out of Congress. 
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