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MalabarJag · 03-01-2019, 10:46 AM

(03-01-2019, 08:44 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:
(02-28-2019, 12:27 PM)MalabarJag Wrote: Good questions. Note that my response to Sammy was to ask him what particular policies of Trump he considered "right wing." I still haven't got an answer, but that in itself is a telling response.

1. Two reasons. First are a contingent of people who consider themselves victims and want someone to use force to redress their suffering. The other group are the elitist experts who know better than the "deplorables" who just want to run their own lives. Basically, the Left wants to use the guns of government to force people to do what they deem correct behavior.

2. Absolutely. However, there is no one electable who will do anything about it. It's as if I were dying of an incurable disease. Complaining about it solve nothing.

3. The clean air and clean water acts were good. There are still a few environmental issues where I think the Left is right. The problem here is that 95% of the current environmentalist alarmism is wrong. DeSantis claims to be for the environment. I hope he addresses the problems with the Everglades and Florida springs.

4. SOMETHING SAID ON THE INTERNET WAS WRONG! I certainly don't expect to change the mind of the person I'm replying to, but maybe others will view things differently after reading what I wrote. Also, others who agree with me might find my arguments useful in their later discussions.

1. So I know Trump has repealed a lot of regulations. Are there any regulations in particular that he has repealed that are your favorites? I mean, what regulations do you most appreciate his repealing?

2. Also, what do you think will be the end result of our running trillion dollar deficits? How do you see the end game there? My opinion: we will eventually have to monetize the debt, and that will cause hyperinflation.

3. From your answer to #4, it seems like you see your role here as bolstering your fellow conservatives, and definitely not changing anyone's mind. I would encourage you to go over to the liberal echo chamber at the Huffington post, and talk to those extreme left wing socialist progressives in the comments. They are really clueless, and in dire need of some basic facts. We need to defend capitalism.  I think you'd do a lot more good over there than you can do here. Do it gently. On this message board, you are only bolstering half a dozen people. You're wasting your horsepower.  Over there, you can actually engage with thousands of extreme left wing progressives.

4. I really miss William F Buckley. He brought an intellectual rigor to the political debate. Now, it's all just low-grade simplistic talking points.

1. I'm not familiar with every regulation that Trump has overturned, but I do applaud his overturning the regulations that would force the shutdown of coal-fired power plants. With the lower cost of natural gas those plants will eventually be replaced anyway, but it should be done so in a sane manner by just replacing plants at the end of their life cycle. I also applaud the overturning of the power grab that claimed every drainage ditch and flood-control pond as Federal water. Add in kudos for overturning of the assumption of guilt of male students required by the previous Dept. of Education.

In general, I oppose any regulation that was not specifically passed by congress, since "regulation" is almost always a Newspeak way of saying "law that makes something that was legal yesterday into a crime." Turning someone into a criminal should not be a purview of the unelected bureaucracy. So consider my position as blanket approval of any action by anyone who overturns a regulation that was not passed into law.

2. I'd guess that it would be a combination of your theory of inflating the money supply to pay for unfunded mandates along with just not paying the creditors. I believe as you seem to that it will end up as a disaster. Note that there are economists who claim the debt is no big deal. I hope I'm wrong and they're right.

3. Do you really think the posters at the leftist echo chamber would ever admit to a fact they disagree with? I enjoy posting here because the posters are invested in football first, and politics second. No way I'd go to argue with a strident leftist.

4. There are such people still around. They are shouted down by the social media mob and the leftist press, so one rarely hears them.

"Why should I give information to you when all you want to do is find something wrong with it?"