Towards a Progressive Agenda ( NeoLiberalism drove some Democrats in desperation to liar Trump )

Trump, the guy who said rich people don't pay enough taxes, and that he was going to make them pay ... even thought it would hurt him badly ...

and then cut all their taxes and told them how much they owed him for all the money he gave them, and put on the rest of the taxpayers' backs.

That Trump? That lying sack of manure that you worship and betray your country for?

But Trump is the one who everyone knows lies constantly. He lies more than he tells the truth ... if he even ever does tell the truth. No matter what insults or noise you come up with ... everyone in the world knows that's true.

First thought is that when you look at paying for stuff, then why has it always been the Republicans that shoot the debt up? Why do they historically do tax cuts and military actions at the same time? Why was it Cheney, Bush and Summers saying deficits don't matter.

If Republicans are that dangerous and incompetent, then they know something is not working and are trying to steal everything they can can and do a hail Mary pass at insurgency before something else must be tried. The logical approach would be to do what ever other developed country has done to make their countries work better on every metric than what the US has been doing.

Only cause they don't got the votes to win on their own else piss off Proggies is the jist of it. Cons are a well organized group while the Dems are splintered groups, like Afghanistan. This is why they can't get shit done. Diversity not their strength because you're trying to please everyone in the group which leaves everyone disappointed. No real unifying purpose. This is why their spending plans is so large due to trying to please everyone.

> neoliberalism began to lose to Bernie-like progressivism, and progressivism proved to be more appealing than Trumpism.

Like trying to hide the history of Native American genocide and Black Slavery ... and pushing the fear of the truth that Americans cannot stand CRT, Critical Race Theory, which is merely the teaching of real history and not mythological brainwashing like North Koreans, same is with the beliefs in Progressivism. It has had to be shut up by beatings, firings, racism, machine-gunning citizens and FBI infiltration of Progressive citizen action groups. The truth is that vast majorities of Americans support the Progressive agenda.

The counter to that was that we cannot afford it, and Republicans went from being trusted to the raving lunatics they are trying to prop that lie up. The fact is you look at the money the US has wasted in Afghanistan and it could have paid for all of this progressive agenda which would have made our society and economy much stronger. It was all done in the name of Republican fascist control and did not benefit anyone but the totalitarian plutocrat class who hide their class war against everyone, but continually call out the liberation class warfare by those who oppose them and their thievery of this resources of this planet, and their thievery of the lives and labor of American citizens.

> With the way Democrats are doing things, they want a Canada v2.0 but open borders with no skill requirement on migrants coming in.

That is what Republicans claim, but neither I nor any other Democrat or Progressive I've ever talked to supports that. It is a Republican talking point ... meaning a dishonest lie promulgated and echoed one the Republican Truth-killing Media.

> US is not a welfare state, it is a Capitalist country. If you're willing to work hard and achieve success, you may get a chance at your American dream.

That is not the truth, even though you spin it in pejorative terms, it is BS and it is not what most Americans want. It also requires the corruption and destruction of media, education and democracy to maintain, which has become so obvious that the Republican lies to counter it have flown off the charts and out the window. Now it just remains for us to have the veil of Republicans lies lifted while we find out the technology of the PR, Marketing, Media Manipulation and Internet Troll manipulations and how much we've been lied to.

No one identifies as an insurgent either Thaisticks ...

Read what you like, and be continually disappointed that nothing does move forward, because the point is that the Democrats have done nothing, and now they are talking a like tougher and a lot more, but they are not doing much, while Republicans are putting the noose around their necks with legal voter suppression laws in half the country.

Actually, I'm not a Republican, but I can whip up a list real fast written by Thom Hartmann in his "The Untold Story of the War On Voting" book.

When Reagan, in his first inaugural, said, “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,” most Americans didn’t understand that the president was setting up calls for privatizing Social Security; ending Medicare (which Reagan had campaigned against in the 1960s when it was passed); and dialing back on the pollution controls that the EPA had put into place during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations.

Just minutes after the Iranians released their hostages, Reagan said, “It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government.”43

Most Americans didn’t think he meant that we should stop funding hospitals and public schools, or devastate LBJ’s Great Society programs that had cut the poverty rate in America in half. They didn’t see Betsy DeVos or Scott Pruitt on the horizon. But there they were.

Ironically, in 1980, the year Reagan was first elected president, David Koch essentially outed the Libertarian Party. He made a massive donation to the party, and they put him on the ticket as vice president. And he figured that Americans were smart enough that he wouldn’t have to use the salesmanship that Moshe Kroy had advocated just a few years earlier.

The Libertarian Party platform on which Koch ran in 1980 was unambiguous. It included the following:
• We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.
• We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services. . . .
• We favor the repeal of the . . . Social Security system. . . .
• We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.
• We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.
• As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.
• We support repeal of all . . . minimum wage laws. . . .
• Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended. . . .
• We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency. . . .
• We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system. . . .
• We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration. . . .
• We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and “aid to the poor” programs.44

The list went on from there, including

• ending government oversight of abusive banking practices by ending all usury laws;
• privatizing our airports, the FAA, Amtrak, and all of our rivers;
• and shutting down the Post Office.

In a bone they threw to the white supremacist, white evangelical, and Catholic Christian movements,

• they also called for an end of all tax-supported abortions (although the Hyde Amendment had already banned this in 1976).

Koch thought they’d kicked off a movement, but when the election returns came in, he was disappointed. Commenting that he’d always been talking to friendly crowds, he candidly noted that he was surprised when his candidacy pulled only about a million votes nationwide. So the billionaires walked away from libertarianism and turned their attention to taking over the Republican Party. That, it turned out, was much easier.