I had the rare opportunity last night to have a long discussion with a very bright 21 year old friend of my children's who was a strong Sanders supporter who voted for Hillary. I think it's important to really see and hear the other side's point of view, especially of our future generation.
Here is just a sample of the long discussion, but was the part that was the eye opener for me:

"By it's very nature capitalism produces winners at the expense of the losers. The only thing stopping the winners from keeping the losers down permanently are government regulations. Well, the problem is that the winners tend to find their way into government decision making and we get things like the financial collapse in 2008.

With technology improving, automation is increasing. This means jobs will go away in certain markets, and that's going to be bad at first but good in the long run. Eventually we may look back in history and scoff at the idea that people had to go to work every day. So we might as well start talking about things like basic income or how to implement a system where everyone has their basic needs met without having to work.

Mark my words, his policies will only hurt the the working class. We don't have a jobs problem, unemployment is at a good rate. The problem is the past generation or two has been unable to find upward mobility or jobs that allow them to thrive, thus shrinking the middle class. Average income is either remaining the same or decreasing while costs and inflation are rising. Pissing off the countries we do business with and deporting millions of immigrants is only going to cause economic turmoil and the expenses will get passed on to the middle class."

Comments anyone?

The first statement about capitalism should give you your first clue. Free market capitalism offers the greatest chance for a person to rise in their economic status than anything ever conceived. Does he think Communism is going to allow people to fare better than they would under capitalism? How about Socialism? No working? Unemployment is at a good rate? Are you kidding? Has he bothered to analyze how the current administration figures unemployment? The fact that he embraces Sanders tells me he is not thinking straight. The fact that he voted for Hillary convinces me that he is not thinking straight. The liberal profs in our liberal universities today are not doing us a service.

I had the rare opportunity last night to have a long discussion with a very bright 21 year old friend of my children's who was a strong Sanders supporter who voted for Hillary. I think it's important to really see and hear the other side's point of view, especially of our future generation.
Here is just a sample of the long discussion, but was the part that was the eye opener for me:

"By it's very nature capitalism produces winners at the expense of the losers. The only thing stopping the winners from keeping the losers down permanently are government regulations. Well, the problem is that the winners tend to find their way into government decision making and we get things like the financial collapse in 2008.

With technology improving, automation is increasing. This means jobs will go away in certain markets, and that's going to be bad at first but good in the long run. Eventually we may look back in history and scoff at the idea that people had to go to work every day. So we might as well start talking about things like basic income or how to implement a system where everyone has their basic needs met without having to work.

Mark my words, his policies will only hurt the the working class. We don't have a jobs problem, unemployment is at a good rate. The problem is the past generation or two has been unable to find upward mobility or jobs that allow them to thrive, thus shrinking the middle class. Average income is either remaining the same or decreasing while costs and inflation are rising. Pissing off the countries we do business with and deporting millions of immigrants is only going to cause economic turmoil and the expenses will get passed on to the middle class."

Comments anyone?

I had the rare opportunity last night to have a long discussion with a very bright 21 year old friend of my children's who was a strong Sanders supporter who voted for Hillary. I think it's important to really see and hear the other side's point of view, especially of our future generation.
Here is just a sample of the long discussion, but was the part that was the eye opener for me:

"By it's very nature capitalism produces winners at the expense of the losers. The only thing stopping the winners from keeping the losers down permanently are government regulations. Well, the problem is that the winners tend to find their way into government decision making and we get things like the financial collapse in 2008.

With technology improving, automation is increasing. This means jobs will go away in certain markets, and that's going to be bad at first but good in the long run. Eventually we may look back in history and scoff at the idea that people had to go to work every day. So we might as well start talking about things like basic income or how to implement a system where everyone has their basic needs met without having to work.

Mark my words, his policies will only hurt the the working class. We don't have a jobs problem, unemployment is at a good rate. The problem is the past generation or two has been unable to find upward mobility or jobs that allow them to thrive, thus shrinking the middle class. Average income is either remaining the same or decreasing while costs and inflation are rising. Pissing off the countries we do business with and deporting millions of immigrants is only going to cause economic turmoil and the expenses will get passed on to the middle class."

Comments anyone?