Re: POTUS: 45.36: I Designed The Sears Tower, I Make 2 Grand An Hour
I’m not disputing the size of our economy. Antoine Walker and surely people much richer than him have gone bankrupt. Its entirely possible that some day we’ll magically turn it all around but it seems a long way off to me and that it will likely come too late.
You still do not understand. The United States still produces massive prosperity. It never stopped. We just stopped trying to stop the rich from hoarding all that prosperity.
That is all that happened. Reversing those decisions -- human, political decisions, not magical events -- will reverse the effect.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the US that economically liberal policies won't fix. We cleaned up the Plutes' mess in 1932. We stopped them in 2008 before they could drive us into another Great Depression. We can stop them again, and this time we can turn back the tide and claw back everything they stole.
All you have to do is realize that you fell for a lot of empty rhetoric astro-turfed by people who quite literally do not care whether you live or die. That "tough but fair" rhetoric you imbibed, from whatever source, is all thought-terminating propaganda specifically designed to turn minds off.
Throw out this one BS thing you believe and start over. Start really reading. Look at the data. Look at the history.
It's so bleeding obvious. You don't even have to admit the mistake -- it doesn't matter -- just f-cking join us and be on the right side of the facts for a change. Speaking as an ex-libertarian, it's a relief not to have to keep building those baroque epicycles to "explain" how supply side will work if only we can just eliminate one more regulation, and that it HAS to work because of the logic of the theory so the empirical data just doesn't matter. The economic conservative quality of thought in this country, after 40 years of ascension and failure, looks
exactly like Marxism: the desperate insistence on logical consistency despite being indisputably disproven and exposed as fraud.
You believe one dumb thing. I used to believe a similar version of that same dumb thing. It's no shame -- lots of extraordinarily perspicacious people have believed dumb things. The only shame is coming up against the truth and deliberately going Full Ostrich because your ego will be hurt. That's actually worthy of disdain.
