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  • It’s not that you’re wrong, it’s that you’re trying to use a broad brush that groups everyone in the same light. No one is getting a free pass either, all of those have been mentioned in the scope that Democrats need to do better, and stop only going halfway when they manage to get traction. The American people need to do better too, the acceptance that this is how it is contributes to the problem. As does the apathy of “both sides” which you’re using here.

    As a side note: I’m usually not a stickler for grammar and spelling, I figure if there is understanding any mistakes are fine in a casual discussion. But I have to say your sentence structure is hard to follow sometimes. A bit better wording would allow your points to flow a bit better.






  • This comes from a third party football team viewpoint that labels both the dominant teams misguided and seemingly infallible following, while also thinking their alternate team would be infallible if it could play.

    There can be blind loyalty to anything. That’s human nature. But you ignore the many times Democrats have burned their own because they do tend to take the higher path, whereas Republicans are more known to march in step and protect their own, usually while projecting onto the left the same behavior they did.

    Your caricature is a strawman of politics. I wish it was as simplistic as you make it out to be.


  • I would suggest that all major crashes happen in part because no one wants to be the first to pull out of the corruption and lose money while everyone else keeps gaining. So it’s a constant race until something actually breaks, and then it’s a mad scramble to get out of the house on fire.

    Basically, if everyone was (or was forced to) be honest, they would see the signs early and act to avoid crashing it all. But they aren’t, so they don’t.

    That’s a simplistic take on it, but the short is that the experts in the financial world see what’s happening, know it can’t end well, but they choose to try and profit while they can, hoping they’ll get theirs first.

    Hell, it’s just like anyone who deals with Trump. Knowing full well how many people get burned from being associated, but they always think that it will be different for them and they’ll be fine.