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We're closer to nuclear war than we've been in 55 years because a few extremely wealthy Americans will stop at nothing to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
There - fixed it for you.
we can do it
(12,189 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)LOVES $$$ even from Russia. Their motto "Show Me The Money" Now they have to live with their orange clown of a mistake running things. If it was not affecting all of us, it would be amusing.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Unfortunately, so are the rest of us.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)The movements ultimate goal is capitalism free from government interference, and a government essentially stripped to maintaining law and order and national defense. Its adherents want to privatize most public services, especially public schools and Social Security. They have adopted the language of conservatism, and have successfully hijacked the Republican Party in the process, but they are not conservative in the traditional sense. Most people would not support the movements extreme libertarian vision if its adherents didnt couch it in appeals to a benign personal freedom.
The final prescription of Buchanans career was constitutional revolutiona rewriting of the rulebook to unleash free-market fundamentalism and prevent majorities of voters from ever being able to effect change. This revolution would turn the Constitutions checks and balances into locks and bolts, and can be heard in present-day calls by Republican governors and legislators for a convention of the states to amend the Constitution.
This is a cause that has its own morality, and its a morality that is foreign to most of us, MacLean says. We need to understand that they truly believe that if people need to die to teach full self-reliance from government, then thats a price that theyre willing to pay.
ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)The wealthy don't have the votes--just the ability to manipulate. People choose to vote republican or third party or "giant meteor". Election have serious consequences
madokie
(51,076 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)I suspect Trump likes that. Killed two birds with one stone.
tiptonic
(765 posts)Thankyou mr. putin and your republican lapdogs..
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)Sad to say but the loss was less about male voters and more about the fact that the first major party female candidate lost 30% of her own gender.