There's not much more to the Democratic and Republican parties beyond their voters and who they end up choosing. There's a spectrum of advisors and old hands representing virtually every different viewpoint.
The only actual institutional part of each party are those who retain power in office. For now Republicans are the 'T Party' run by a con man.
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People like Mitch McConnell who still wants to end the 'entitlement program payments' to retired Americans on Medicare and Social Security, which combined now make up the majority of Federal spending . . .
. . . and Mitch's wife Elaine Chao whose family shipping business depends upon trade with China and receives it's funding from Chinese government banks.
Maybe older Republican voters really are demanding that the Federal government cut them off from their retirement benefits, and I'm just out of touch with their self-harming demands. Stranger things have happened.
I'll begin collecting welfare from the Medicare entitlement program next year, but I'll wait to begin collecting welfare from the Social Security entitlement because they provide an incentive for doing so. I don't care a whit how much Mitch McConnell and other Tea Party Republicans try to shame me for collecting welfare from these 'entitlement programs' because I'm immune to their freakish world views and opinions.
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The antidote to this is not a Stalinist joke candidate like Jeremy Corbyn which the Labour Party is effectively running for PM, because "he's done the work for years and 'its his turn'"
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Saunders are both effective Senators but the executive branch is a different job. For Saunders universal medicare is an applause line he refuses to be specific about as did Warren until Pete Buttigieg goaded her into coming out with a detailed plan.
In virtually every country where universal medicare is in use, residents pay a percentage of their salary, so higher earners are subsidizing part of the cost for lower income residents.
Elizabeth Warren chose to impose on herself a funding scheme where the Middle Class does not pay any part of the cost of their universal health coverage, which is Stalinist Jeremy Corbyn nonsense, which is why the NHS is an inferior underfunded program compared with other implementations of universal medicare.
Saunders refuses to even try to be specific about how he imagines funding his vision.
In this respect they're exactly like Donald Trump, and Jeremy Corbyn - populist authoritarians with little regard for facts or reality.
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For all of his noise and attention-seeking, Donald Trump has accomplished virtually nothing apart from a large tax cut for top income earners.
Trump negotiated a replacement NAFTA, an identical program with a 3.5% greater sucking sound. Wooh Hooh! He has not solved the IP theft problem which is China, except to impose import tariffs which he is hoping to roll back in return for nothing apart from the 127 exclusive trademarks for the Trump organization.
Since Jared Kushner has 'solved' the problems of the Middle East, Trump has now appointed his son-in-law to 'fix the border wall' while Trump has been running a criminal enterprise with underworld crime bosses around the world organized by his crooked mobbed-up attorney Rudy Giuliani. What a laugh.
For really stupid people this has all been a very impressive show. But even stupid people will eventually realize that nothing has changed and their lives have not improved,
I'll freely admit I have no interest in replacing a reality-free conman like Trump with someone who also has little or no interest in facts and reality, regardless of how they choose to market themselves. |
