Treason Season??

[Labster]

Rob, 99.9% of the politicians and business types out there aren't trustworthy to one degree or another,

Why do you vote for somebody who you don't feel is trustworthy?

That's a serious question; I'd appreciate a serious answer.

I honestly feel that Trump, that while not completely trustworthy, isn't going to bend me over a barrel and screw me over like Pelosi, Clinton (either one) Schumer or Obama has.

He's already screwed over Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig. And that was just last week.

He at least listens to people who understand that our Constitution was written with certain things in mind, things that mean you have the ability to improve your life instead of wallowing in the same miserable shithole that is "equal outcome". People who understand that socialism and communism DO NOT WORK on our scale without forcing the majority of your people into abject poverty and servitude.

Or for that matter actually know the definition of Socialist

Have you read your own country's Constitution? As far as I can see, none of what you attribute to it is anywhere in the text - would you point out which sections of which articles support your statements there, please?

Gosh I am now tempted to make a 14th Amendment argument for socialism.


Neoliberalism is basically dead, but nothing has come along to replace it other than the spectre of populist nativism.  This is probably due largely to climate change, which has been spurring the large-scale global migration over the past decade, and both cause and effect will probably only get worse.  The American Left has become something of a grand alliance of socialists, leftover neoliberals, socially-left industrialists, minority interests, environmentalist evangelical Christians, and centrist Republicans.  It's not really a group with much of a common goal, other than defending classical liberalism.  Obviously, we need new ideologies.