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Carlosologist posted:I actually found the source, this is obviously just some guy but I think the logic is solid. the guaranteed overtime is probably a non-starter among companies, and this plan requires a revitalization of the unions, to which, lol I love this sort of techno-utopian thinking. Like, the solution to a growing productivity and wage gap, rising inequality, and slackening demand is to hope technology will rescue us and usher in a post-scarcity future? Get real. Obviously it'd be a great thing for people to work less overall, but let's talk about properly compensating them for the work they do first. What's that? Empower unions?! Redistribute wealth? Let's try to stay realistic here!
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It's wishful thinking on the part of Dems to think that "Drain the Swamp" meant anything but cracking down on Pesky Bureaucrats, liberal lobbyists, and Democrats.
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Nov 18, 2016 01:28
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Crowsbeak posted:Because when he doesn't do that poo poo and crashes the economy we can pretend we offered to help. But the Dems are loving horrible at optics. Trump will blame Yellen and the Fed, the Chinese, and Democrats for not implementing his tremendous plans. He'll probably get away with it too.
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blamegame posted:Uh Trump pretty obviously won because of racism. If you can't recognize that you have no business pretending you know anything about the USA Racism probably put him over the edge, but it's hard imagine a counterfactual where the upper working class/lower-middle class turn out for Trump even as their incomes, health, job security, etc. rise. Part of it is definitely due to a lost sense of status, with all the racial implications. Trump's victory is basically the Romney vote + increased rural turnout + the activation of the disaffected lakeshore working class + relatively poor turnout for Clinton in key states. The thing I've really see no one talk about is how Romney men and women (often college educated!) still turned out for Trump. It's a loving shaky coalition.
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Nov 19, 2016 06:29
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Obama's gradual incrementalism and naive "let's all get along, folks" doomed the Democratic party. The Dems had their boots on the neck of the Republican party and they let them off the drat hook. It'll take another 10 or 15 years, but the next generation of historians are going to shred whatever is left of his legacy after Trump gets through with it.
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Nov 30, 2016 21:07
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Main Paineframe posted:The Trump team is floating Palin to run the VA The only reason this year is heralded as an "anti-establishment" year is because the barbarians have already battered down the gates, and no one was watching. The Radical Center has fallen. Elites didn't see it coming because Business As Usual was restored in their eyes. Now they're scrambling for answers and it is too late.
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Nov 30, 2016 21:16
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comingafteryouall posted:The sentiments from OWS didn't just disappear and have not had an outlet. Of course it didn't actually disappear; the establishment/elite/the media just thought it did.
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Nov 30, 2016 21:23
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Crowsbeak posted:Hmmm. Free college. Medicare for all. Glass stegall 2 punish the financial elite. No more wars in the Middle East. Make VA work for our veterans. Those things are all good, but the problems are: 1) Dems inevitably water down, means-test, or otherwise make things very hard for the average person to care about, understand, or support 2) bad messaging, not for lack of ideas but because they are afraid of offending Silicon Valley/Wall Street/Business services/Insurance industry/Big Law by straight up adopting a platform that reflects the truth: the current system is rigged against you, rich people have every benefit, hard work won't necessarily pay off, and to remedy all of these things government is here to protect you from the vagaries of capitalism.
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Obama is a giant pussy
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