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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (176794)	8/14/2020 11:32:27 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 355549

Some people think that if there is a Democratic sweep in the November election, many of Trump’s policies will be reversed and taxes will increase. Based on that analysis, the stock market could fall about 20%. But for rare birds who attempt to rationally understand the stock market, it may come as a shocker that under one scenario the stock market may rise about 12% on a Democratic sweep. To understand this scenario, think of a party of drunkards where everyone loves a person who serves the most alcohol. At present, the stock market is behaving like a party of drunkards. The equivalent of alcohol is massive borrowing and money printing. Thus, the stock market is loving a potential Democratic sweep because Democrats will borrow more than Trump has.

To: koan who wrote (176794)	8/14/2020 12:21:59 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 355549

What you miss is that southern Democrats and northern Democrats were in the same party. ---------------------------------------------------- @TheValuesVoter It took a good 32 years for black voters to flip hard from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party. It took only 20 years for asian voters to do the same. To almost the same degree. Worst of all, while they've alienated almost all black and many latino voters, they've alienated asian voters to almost the same degree that they've alienated black voters. Which sucks for them because asian voters are the fastest growing demographic group in the electorate. At some point in time, those gimmicks will stop working. And meanwhile they've alienated, possibly forever, not just the voters who they tried to discourage from voting but also many white voters who see what they're doing and hate it as well. The GOP, at least a decade ago, clearly made a decision that instead of trying to seriously mend fences with black and latino voters, that its best path to electoral success was to try to restrict our ability to vote. It was an incredibly stupid and short-sighted decision. It wasn't always this way.