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And for sure dismantling social security and all the safety nets including medicaid will help them feel welcomed again...
by ta988 2y ago
And for sure dismantling social security and all the safety nets including medicaid will help them feel welcomed again...
- lolinder 2y agoAs I said, they're wrong about the medicine, but Trump wins by being the first to acknowledge that there's a serious problem.
- bavell 2y agoI applaud you for trying, but HN doesn't want reason or understanding w.r.t trump or his voters. Way easier to label everyone/everything as fascist nazis and stick your head in the sand.
- lolinder 2y agoThanks. I know. I'm here every few weeks with a fresh attempt. It went over better before the inauguration, but now that Trump is actually implementing the policies that he campaigned on it's a bit harder for people to stomach the idea that his voters are anything other than orcs. I'll probably give it a rest here for a few more weeks.
- monkey_monkey 2y ago[flagged]
- lolinder 2y agoNah, there are plenty of us here, we've just mostly gone underground in the face of the mindless hate and anger that's been dominant the last month or two. Echo chambers are self-reinforcing that way.
- monkey_monkey 2y agoYou are a brave soldier - almost a true resistance hero. Chapeau.
- coryrc 2y agoHe's not the first in the slightest.
- lolinder 2y agoIn the last 30 years, which other nominee for president by one of the two parties that matter has made addressing the struggles of working class America the center of their platform?
- coryrc 2y agoThat's moving the goalposts. There are plenty of candidates for Congress they voted against as well. But, sure, how about Barack Obama? https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fact-sheet-creating-pathways-the-middle-class-for-all-americans https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fact-sheet-creatin... The one who created the hated Obamacare, but they rebelled when their R representatives threatened to cancel the ACA. No, they're the byproduct of a failed educational system and culture of unearned entitlement. They expect others to save them from drug addiction while doing every possible to prevent help. And they only have this power because of the Senate represents land instead of people.
- deeg 2y agoThe CHIPS act was not only an acknowledgement of the problem it was actually doing something about it.
- TheBlight 2y agoHow is social security being dismantled? What exactly are you talking about? Do you even know?
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