(04-13-2022, 11:04 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(04-13-2022, 10:55 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: 1) No. You're not. You registered Republican because you think you're gaming the system by messing up their primaries. You don't like abortion, but on almost every other issue you lean left, and you vote left. You're the one in denial, not me. You and Marty claim not to be Democrats, and I genuinely believe you guys are sincere when you say that. However, you are both establishment hacks, which makes you, for all intents and purposes, Democrats. 
2) Yes it is, stupid. Just because it's not called CRT doesn't absolve it of its origin. Who is doing the racial sensitivity training, Mikey?  A bunch of conservative racial activists? No, you dolt. It's progressive activists, and their MO is exactly what I outlined above that you somehow already forgot.
3) Sure. But we have a bad government. One that has merged with corporate interests. The corporate-government carousel will continue until we actually start governing the corporations and stop letting the corporations govern us.

No, seriously, I'm not a Democrat.  I'm a Republican.  I'm for free markets, I'm opposed to race-based solutions, I don't like identity politics, I'm absolutely opposed to the Green New Deal, I'm against forgiving student loans, I don't like tariffs, and I'm opposed to spending trillions of dollars on "stimulus."  And I think the government debt is a very serious threat that we need to deal with.  What else?  I don't like "critical race theory."  I don't like socialism.  I don't believe in wealth redistribution.  I think concentration of wealth in the hands of private interests is healthy for our economy.   I don't care if Jeff Bezos has 100 or 200 billion dollars.  It's fine with me.  He earned it.    

As for me being an "establishment hack," it depends on how you define "the establishment."  My interests are with capitalism.  

Obviously, I am not a Democrat.

I said that. I don't think you're a democrat. I think you're establishment. I don't differentiate between the establishment left and right anymore. It's primarily theater. There are a bunch of global-corporate neo-libs/cons that exploit working class Americans and third world countries for profit. Democrats have become the champions for this cause, you can happily find Republicans who support the same thing, which you do. 

I will admit that I am too hard on you sometimes. I just think you're too smart to be duped by this nonsense.

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