whitnebrat wrote:
I guess it's time to congratulate you conservatives. You've accomplished some major wins. I may disagree with how you accomplished it, but you are winning. The country is definitely tilting to the right. The ship of state has taken a list to starboard, and I can't deny that.
You've won the battle.
There are a whole lot of new federal judges that will force conservative decisions for the next few decades.
You've destroyed the federal civil service requirements and allow cronyism to sneak back into the government workplace.
You've eliminated a raft of environmental regulations that mainly affect poor and minority communities.
The federal lands are now open to the 'thumper trucks' which search for oil.
The poultry and beef processing industry is having trouble finding enough people to work in the gruesome slaughterhouses that provide our steaks and rotisserie chicken.
Our water supplies are no longer being tested for harmful chemicals.
Employees of major corporations no longer have the ability to band together in class action lawsuits. Instead, they have to resort to private arbitration on a one-to-one basis which most cannot afford to do because of high legal fees.
Respect for the Department of Justice and the FBI has been eroded, which makes it more difficult for them to do their jobs and get cooperation from the population.
You've defanged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was showing signs of actually holding companies accountable when they committed fraud against their customers.
China and Russia are doing major deals with the rest of the world that we've retreated from. China is estimated to be ahead of in Artificial Intelligence within a decade, and their companies are quietly acquiring American firms. And to do business in China, our companies have to partner with a Chinese firm, which mandates intellectual property transfers and eliminates our technological edge.
Yep, you're winning. You're accomplishing the decline of the United States as a world power. We've alienated our European allies and degraded the relations with our Asian partners.
You're achieving your goal of taking the country back to the late nineteenth century, which was isolationist, racist, homophobic, mysogenistic, religiously bigoted and the realm of the big industrialists (the Robber Barons.) A truly worthy goal, if you don't know what life back then was like.
I wish you well. I'm old enough that I probably won't see the end result of all this. I'm glad of that, but I fear for the younger generations and the quality of life that they will inherit.
Congratulations, you've won the present battle. But long term, you've lost the war, and our country is much the worse for that. If you prevail, that great experiment called democracy will fail.
Make America Great Again! NOT!
I guess it's time to congratulate you conservative... (
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Total perversion of the truth. Liberals have totally lost the ability to think straight, to use facts and logic. Everything is true to them if it fits the agenda and false if it does not. I used to pity them because it seems they were just ignorant but now I believe they are truly evil. They really do want to destroy this country and put everyone in bondage to the government (literal or financial bondage it seems not to matter so long as free will is taken away).
I could show you your errors point by point but a lot of what you write is not fact; it is opinion. Driven by your point of view. However when you decry conservatism as bad I celebrate it because I KNOW that conservatism is what made this country great. I KNOW that the opposite of conservatism is socialism, Nazism, communism, fascism; all traits that are included in the Democratic Party platform and practiced with enthusiasm by the followers of that truly evil (that's is a fact not an opinion) organization.
I hope you are right and the country is moving toward a better direction. If it does it will be despite you and the other useful idiots and because the country has had enough of the Obama years and is ready for a meaningful change. That does not mean I agree with the present administration in all it does and I especially am disgusted in the Republican Congress because it has not realized that things are changing and wants to continue the Progressive movement, the corruption and the lies. If Congress could just get on board and become true conservatives we could once again show the world what a free Republic can do.