(03-09-2022, 01:26 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(03-09-2022, 08:26 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: ...says a person from the most entitled citizenry ever to walk the planet. Comfort has not been the norm for mankind. You people take our freedom and wealth for granted. 

Forget Trump for a second. The question is really whether or not our lives are made better by democrats. The answer is no. Not in any way. They, along with many Republicans, are the establishment class. They don't care about the people. We have to start voting against the establishment and get back to people run government.

Depends whose life we're talking about.  I didn't qualify for that child tax credit, but my neighbors did.  Statistics say that it dramatically decreased child poverty.

Even so, that's not the question I ask.  That question's too selfish for me, and sometimes circumstances are such that people's lives will get worse regardless of how wise the government is.

Trump was trying to become a dictator.  He was trying to persecute and prosecute his opponents and when that didn't work he called for violence to get his way.  All of these things would make the government more accountable to him and his personality and less accountable to the voters.  So the question I asked in 2020 was, regardless of which tax and spending policy I prefer, regardless of which immigration policy I prefer, regardless of any of my preferences, which candidate is more likely to preserve my ability to vote and influence government in 2021, 2022, and beyond?