What’s your point comparing a man of a different era with norms now?
It just astonishes me that my grandfather was a registered Democrat. His views on personal responsibility and self reliance were the antithesis of the modern democratic party.
Abe Lincoln was a Republican AND a Socialist. What do labels mean again?
30 years ago, my father was as homophobic as they come. Today, not at all. Ajax, the fact that you can’t imagine your grandfather accepting certain things occurring in the present is more of a failure of your own imagination than anything else.
He might even be honest enough to acknowledge that Bernie Sanders is not a Marxist.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
What’s your point comparing a man of a different era with norms now?
It just astonishes me that my grandfather was a registered Democrat. His views on personal responsibility and self reliance were the antithesis of the modern democratic party.
Imagine a Tang dynasty man not agreeing with Xi Ping’s policies... I wonder what your granpappy thought of the GOP.
Edited for additional thought: I notice Republicans love to hide behind this Ron Paul ideology of small government and libertarianism, except unlike Ron Paul the second it becomes even mildly inconvenient you, Ajax18, don't actually uphold any of the principles. You're really just looking for the state to protect you and stomp the boot on anyone who opposes you or whom you don't like.
We’ve pointed out you’re a huge fan of socialism and socialist policies that benefit you directly, so you’re not actually whatever it is you think you are outside of a racist and ethnosupremacist. WE neEd OuR oWn CouNTrY!
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Edited for additional thought: I notice Republicans love to hide behind this Ron Paul ideology of small government and libertarianism, except unlike Ron Paul the second it becomes even mildly inconvenient you, Ajax18, don't actually uphold any of the principles. You're really just looking for the state to protect you and stomp the boot on anyone who opposes you or whom you don't like.
We’ve pointed out you’re a huge fan of socialism and socialist policies that benefit you directly, so you’re not actually whatever it is you think you are outside of a racist and ethnosupremacist. WE neEd OuR oWn CouNTrY!
- Doc
Not sure what you mean by this but no country would be better than the country we had when I started this thread.
If stomping our boots on those we disagree with is getting people back working and off welfare than I suppose Trump and all his supporters are ethnosupremacist or whatever you call it.
This old thread makes me remember just how bad things were and how far back to prosperity and rule of law Trump has brought us. In my view he has accomplished the impossible and I've never felt more optimistic for the USA than now.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
ajax18 wrote: This old thread makes me remember just how bad things were and how far back to prosperity and rule of law Trump has brought us. In my view he has accomplished the impossible and I've never felt more optimistic for the USA than now.
By that, do you mean comparing today versus when you started the thread?
ajax18 wrote:Even astronomical figures like $4 trillion are going to look small when the interest payments on the debt really start to compound.
Ajax18 vs. Ajax18
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
ajax18 wrote:So you're saying it's healthier for a country to have a small debt than no debt? How does this debt benefit the taxpaying citizens?
Remember when Donald Trump said he would eliminate the federal debt in eight years? Pepperidge Farms remembers. The deficit has since risen by more than 16 percent under his presidency in three years.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Remember when Donald Trump said he would eliminate the federal debt in eight years? Pepperidge Farms remembers. The deficit has since risen by more than 16 percent under his presidency in three years.
- Doc
But bottom line in your opinion, the debt should only be reduced by raising taxes or cutting military spending, never by cutting welfare spending or foreign aid. Anyone who votes for something different is an ethnocentric racist stomping their boot on those who don't want to work for a living.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
Remember when Donald Trump said he would eliminate the federal debt in eight years? Pepperidge Farms remembers. The deficit has since risen by more than 16 percent under his presidency in three years.
- Doc
But bottom line in your opinion, the debt should only be reduced by raising taxes or cutting military spending, never by cutting welfare spending or foreign aid. Anyone who votes for something different is an ethnocentric racist.
Debt should be reduced by taxation and responsible government spending. Increasing military spending because we're addicted to foreign intervention is not responsible. Giving a tax windfall to corporations and the top 1% every time a Republican is elected because they have no other platform to run on, is not responsible.
"One of the hardest things for me to accept is the fact that Kevin Graham has blonde hair, blue eyes and an English last name. This ugly truth blows any arguments one might have for actual white supremacism out of the water. He's truly a disgrace." - Ajax
