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The deplorable mindset....🙄 (Original Post) Heartstrings Dec 2019 OP
I'm so tired of them telling me stuff is impossible when it's demonstrably not. hunter Dec 2019 #1
Especially when some many other countries do those things. rickyhall Dec 2019 #2
"How will we pay for Medicare For All?" CaptYossarian Dec 2019 #3
"It can't be done!" Grokenstein Dec 2019 #4

hunter

(38,302 posts)
1. I'm so tired of them telling me stuff is impossible when it's demonstrably not.
Sun Dec 22, 2019, 12:05 AM
Dec 2019

Sane gun regulation is possible. Universal health care is possible. Eliminating homelessness is possible. Clean energy is possible. Safe workplaces are possible. Paid six week vacations are possible. A clean environment is possible. Near universal literacy is possible. College education without debt is possible.

The only people these policies would hurt are those who seek to gain and maintain their own political and economic power by unethical means.

The deplorables have no idea how horridly they are being abused.

Their political and religious leaders see them as stupid pawns, and don't care how poorly they live or how they suffer and die.

rickyhall

(4,889 posts)
2. Especially when some many other countries do those things.
Sun Dec 22, 2019, 12:42 AM
Dec 2019

I feel like we need to go into 21st century, not the 19th. I grew up in the 60s and got used to Progress, then it stopped and miss it. I loved the Space Race and then it stopped. I figure the USA peaked with Moon Landing and has gone down hill ever since.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
3. "How will we pay for Medicare For All?"
Sun Dec 22, 2019, 12:45 AM
Dec 2019

1) Cancel the unneeded wall.

2) Never mind Space Force. Let's "Make Earth Livable Again".

3) In only 3 years, we've paid $115 million for Trump to golf EVERY weekend.

4) Are all cabinet members spending like Carson, Ross, Mulvaney, Mnuchin…on office furniture, travel, perks for relatives, etc.?

5) What about Trump's kids and Giuliani and their incessant travels for criminal behavior?

If Americans are healthier, they'll be more productive. This leads to a stronger economy. The MFA will eventually pay for itself. We need to reverse the follies of our impeached moron.

Grokenstein

(5,721 posts)
4. "It can't be done!"
Sun Dec 22, 2019, 01:51 AM
Dec 2019

"Europe does it."
"Socialism!"
"They're happier, they live longer, healthier lives."
"Then we should bomb the hell outta them!"
"Why?"
"EXCEPTIONALISM!! Beats Communism every time! Exportin' freedom to those backwards shitholes! Let's roll!!"
"You want to bring 'freedom' to peaceful allies by imposing 'exceptionalism' through brute force and war crimes?"
"TRADITIONAL VALUES!! FREEDOM FRIES!! BACON BULLETS!! TO THE VICTOR GOES THE OILS!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!"
"All right, orderlies, you can wheel Mr. Buchanan back to his room now."

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