That's the idea.
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I haven't seen the show, but the premise of "The Thick of It" is that the real powerful figures are staffers, not the politicians themselves.
Funny you think that taxing the rich is not going help pay off all the debt (no one says that alone will fix the debt problem), but advocating for tariffs is basically taxing everyone across the board. And who is actually going to be hurt by this? The ordinary folks. The rich don't care about paying more for groceries and goods because they can afford to pay more for the extra costs imposed by tariffs.
And since you mentioned about the Great Depression in your other reply, guess which is a contributing factor to the Great Depression? That's right, tariffs. It was imposed over one hundred years ago by none other than the Republican party. Ted Cruz himself said to stop imposing tariffs and shaking up the stock market, or they will lose both the house and senate again for another 60 years like the last time!
Tariffs can generate revenue, but it is a short term solution that will create a long term problem.
I was amazed when Rome Total War came out. 20 years later, the game looks like it was made on Windows Paint. At least Creative Assembly remastered the game.
When I requested the data they have of me thanks to GDPR, I learnt they shared my information to other apps and websites. I deleted the app as soon as I got the info.
Americans informally create coalitions. That's why you hear the term "caucus" a lot more often, like Bernie Sanders "caucusing" with Democrats. Many libertarians may not like Trump and the fascist Republicans, but they still caucus together. The problem with caucusing with Democratic party is that they sideline the left, especially Bernie Sanders, in favour of more corporate friendly candidates. As for the Republican party, well the right always act right and value group cohesion and appeasing the rich more, even if they become fascist.
Caucusing is hardly working and here is the hard to swallow pill for Americans: organise grassroots campaigns and plant actual progressives into primaries. Americans used to be good at doing that. That's how they got the Roosevelts, ended the first Gilded Age, and third party candidates being elected more. The duopoly system became entrenched sometime after the early 1900's, probably when Theodore Roosevelt ran third party and split the vote of progressives, which handed the presidency to the racist Woodrow Wilson.
Even Warren Buffet advocates on raising taxes on the rich, and called out the nonsense that doing so stop businesses and individuals from investing.
Imagine asking AIs to form your own opinion.
"Grok, should I support Ukraine or Russia?"
Who would have thought that we are all becoming like Batman's villain, Two Face, to make decisions from an inanimate object.
Better late than never. Or, better than setting a condition, which is way weirder.
Why did we ever stop calling them weird?
Because it has been normalised.
By the way OP, you missed the opportunity to call them of GOP-- the shorthand for guardians of pedophiles.
Good. YouTube is a contributor to increasing massive societal polarisation. We don't want kids these days turning to Nazis. Some of the kids and people I grew up with became extremist.
Probably too distracted by culture wars and other single issue pet peeves to pay attention to the whole picture. My coworker says he agrees with most of what Trump says but is extremist on others. I was like, it's part and parcel what did you expect? A friend supported Trump for his non-interventionist foreign policy, which may be true on Trump's first term, but not so much anymore on his second term. I haven't spoken to him in a long time but I reckon he may be regretting supporting Trump.
What I notice about Trump supporters or those who sympathises with him, is that they don't really talk about economics or how his bill guts major public investments and agencies, and give more tax cuts to the rich. It is more often on culture wars, or even Epstein files (not dismissing the Epstein files but the Republican economic policies will have more severe consequences to Americans in generations to come and should be talked about more).
A lot of people supporting an ideology or a politician is being in our own social bubble. In my social media feed, I see only anti-Trump content. For others, they see pro-Trump. We've became more polarised since the Second World War because of the advent of new modes of communications. In the 20th century, TV and radio were the social media that polarises the society Even if Trump did some good things (remember that he said Hitler did some good things, and yes, Hitler may well have) but the problem with demagogues is that they bait and switch. You can't ignore the genocidal intent of the person simply because he or she gave you free healthcare.