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HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:01 PM Jun 2015

I see that Conservatives are getting tired of reliving the past.

That they want teh lib'ruls to talk about something other than a racist cloth of treason and sedition

. . . FINE.

LET'S DO THAT.

1. Explain to me how job offshoring, job inshoring, union-busting, wage suppression, corporate tax breaks, the shareholder value myth and automation, all business practices America (particularly conservative America, regardless of political affiliation) wholeheartedly supports, are conducive to the long term health of a consumer-based economy.

2. Explain to me how keeping, lowering or even more hilariously, eliminating a wage that already represents a buying power LOSS over time is a smart and economically sound move.

3. How do thousands upon thousands of debt-strapped millennials purchase big-ticket necessities such as homes, cars, education, health care, day care and appliances?

4. Is governing by mythology a sound idea?

5. Why do we still feel the need to be the world's cop when our infrastructure is crumbling?

6. Say a political party puts forth a serious candidate for President. How does anything get accomplished with a gerrymandered Republican House that controls all of the purse strings?

7. Why do Conservatives feel that any action that could help America is a giant waste of money, but are perfectly OK with allocating tax dollars to help destroy things (like human rights, a foreign country, etc.)?

8. Do Conservatives still believe there's no such thing as racism, sexism, human rights suppression, privilege, patronage or luck in 2015?

Hey, NO one wants to talk about an ugly and stained past, amirite? What's important is that we make them examine themselves on America's counterproductive present and inevitably ugly future.

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I see that Conservatives are getting tired of reliving the past. (Original Post) HughBeaumont Jun 2015 OP
If all minorities and Gays and Muslims and you know, disappeared tomorrow, what would randys1 Jun 2015 #1
"Same old same old." "Sorry, we're just not that into Hugh." HughBeaumont Jun 2015 #2

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. If all minorities and Gays and Muslims and you know, disappeared tomorrow, what would
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:03 PM
Jun 2015

be their reason for wanting the rich to own everything?

Would they then learn the error of their ways?



Bad news, bigots, aint none of us going anywhere

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
2. "Same old same old." "Sorry, we're just not that into Hugh."
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 03:53 PM
Jun 2015

At the very least, I would like an answer from DU's moderates on the first two.

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