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I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Mick,
I think this is posted under the implicit heading ‘The Reds Are Coming’. Indeed they are . . . until 2o22.
Trump, as always. A great deal of voter preference is simply a distaste for Trump – the endless controversy, nastiness, sullenness, the sheer negativity of the guy. The anthem is the old Middle Eastern one – the enemy of my enemy is my frientd.
Once he is gone, all hell breaks loose. The Democratic obsession with identity politics, which opened the door to Trump in the first place, has intensified – they’ve doubled down on the stuff that got them into trouble in the first place. The excesses of BLM and the sjw mobs are quietly infuriating a lot of voters, who will go Democrat this one time, then move back to the center. I KNOW there is a hug Jewish faction that is extremely bothered by the unapologetic anti-Semitism of the Democrats. But they like Trump even less.
Ultimately, the people get the government they want – I remain a committed Populist. And I do not think they want the likes of Portland, Minneapolis, or the Green New Deal. But all that is obscured by the fact that they really don’t want Donald Trump.
Ultimately, voters vote the MLM ticket – My Life Matters. And I don’t think the Democrats are responding any better to that than they did in 2016.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
I’m torn. To which candidate should I dedicate my Rosary?
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
My own foray into contrafactual history has been compared favorably to Roth’s book. Here’s the link. Both explore serious themes in that genre.
However, the TV show elevates the residual anti-Semitism of the times into a major political force. Lindbergh never had a chance.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
I throw up my hands at ‘Plot Against America’.
The America Firsters were never a serious political movement. Its influence on the American political process was exactly zero. Like ‘Lovecraft Country’, it’s a fantasy demonization of American history.
Enough.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Lyft and Uber have put an initiative on the ballot to reverse this Superior Court decision. My bet is it passes by 70 percent, as shared ride services are extremely popular and the whole elite onslaught that began with AB5 is not.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
It’s going to continue to narrow, because it always does. We’ll see.
The Democratic PArty is doing s superb j0b of re-electing Trump. In the same way as it goe him elected in 2016.
What the people likely want is a continuation of most of the policies of the last four years, which an emphasis on increased police accountability and the problems of the endangered middle class addressed – without the incredibly obnoxious Trump blathering about his enemies. The historical Joe Biden might have been able to provide that. Query about the 2020 version.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
My own thoughts were about a far more comprehensive tax that would substitute a wealth base for the income base. Obviously, it won’t succeed imposed by individual States. It won’t succeed as a surtax, because of notch effects and other issue.
Still, it’s a start. Its first cousin, Universal Basic Income, seems to me an inevitability – and is NOT the descent into socialism some may think (any more than public schools).
I gave up proselytization not because I lost faith in the concept, but because the problems with monetary theory were insurmountable. Piketty informs us we have 6 to 8 times the amount of productive wealth that we do of income. But we have hundreds, maybe thousands of times, that amount of monetary equivalents. One of the good collateral aspects of switching to a wealth based annual tax is that we would squeeze all that phony money out of the economy. But, Lord! The social dislocation would be enormous, alm0st too great to contemplate.
CEBers interested in the work that Mick, and the poster formerly known as Boston Card, amd myself did on the prospect can find the link to the blog here. The concept is actually workable, but you need a political consensus that doesn’t exist to enact it – plus all those collateral issues.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
First Bush blows an entire planet, now Trump screws up the moon.
Republicans.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
We’ve been here before in this country.
I think Trump has basically destroyed the Republican Party. When Democrats are embracing the likes of John Bolton, there’s nothing left but a personality cult.
That does not, however, mean that the Democrats’ values reign triumphant. What it means is that all the old debates begin to resurrect in the ranks of the Democratic Party. (That’s what happened to Jefferson’s Republicans between 1808 and 1828.) Or a third party springs into life, as in 1856.
Trump’s incredible narcissism and belligerence make any kind of political dialog impossible. There are a ton of people who see the Democratic progressives as having gone way, way too far. and I include African-Americans and Hispanic social conservatives. (A moment to wish – again – that Rubio had secured the GOP nomination in 2016. All those columnists who think the delivery of the Hispanic constituency into the Democrats – with its entrenched anti-Catholicism – is a done deal, would have found out how wrong they are.)
Ultimately, the American people get the government they want, and I do NOT think the government they want has too much in common with Progressive wet dreams. But in this election, to vote AGAINST them means you have to vote FOR Trump, and darn few people want to do that. Once the bloated ego is out of the way, maybe voters can begin to size up what they really want, without the personalty obstruction.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Rather fatiguing times, to put it mildly. Read some classical literature. Think outside of real time.
I’ve never forgotten the 70’s. Watergate. The US selling out the decent people of Vietnam, a betrayal my fellow Boomer will never acknowledge. The NY Times gloomily proclaiming imminent race war and social collapse.
But what was really going on was a couple of kids in a garage inventing the personal computer, and the gnomes at the DoD creating an embryonic computer communications network. The Soviet Union was in fact stagnating into collapse. Sensible conservatives in France, Germany, and Great Britain turned the entire direction of government around.
I don’t know what’s really happening now. The virus and the dreadful, purposeful obnoxiousness of Trump obscure everything. (His record is actually pretty good, but the failure of style is so colossally catastrophic that he has to go. I shall cast my superfluous vote for Biden, and when K. Harris inevitably takes over, hope that she learned some political moderation from Brown in addition to other stuff. Trump has to go if we are ever to have sensible political dialog again.)
But there may be all sorts of good stuff happening technologically. Our educational system, particularly higher education, is going to be permanently affected. Good bye credentialism, of both kinds. UBI will be with us, and that will be interesting.
The story never does end.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Might have done this in 2017 and taken the knees out of his opposition. Too little, too late now . . .
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Ironic. The anti-Catholic bias of the Democratic Party has become so intense that JFK could not be nominated these days.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Trump’s failure of leadership on Covid-19 is catastrophic. It is almost impossible to politicize a pandemic (viruses have no friends), but he has managed to do so. The FBI malfeasance might be a major story in a different climate. But it is irrelevant. I think Donald Trump is going to depart the stage in November, and thank God for that. His achievements are dwarfed by his deliberate divisiveness.
As for tilting leftward, Barack Obama swept into office in 2008 with majorities in both Houses. There was great concern about a leftward turning. It lasted all of one session.
I do think Universal Basic Income (UBI), first cousin to my beloved Net Wealth Tax, is an inevitability, given the stressors on the economy. That, however, is not necessarily a Leftward or socialist measure (!!), any more than social security or unemployment insurance.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
