Yes. My property values have dropped since Trump became president. I'm not blaming him but if my house is worth less that means it is more affordable.
"grocery prices down, utilities down, oh and you got a raise!"
This is all true also, except for utilities. But utilities are a racket and always have been. They went up under Biden and up under Trump. They have constantly been going up regardless who the president is and that is how it will continue.
What a lot of people probably didn't hear about, especially on the left, was that they found two pipe bombs on Jan 6th, one of the Democrat headquarters and the other at the Republican headquarters in Washington DC. The bombs were never detonated (except by the police bomb unit), no one was hurt. Kamala Harris visited the Democrat office with the bomb right outside. No one was hurt.
I just heard they finally found out who set the bombs. And just take a wild guess what his political ideology was? Yes! That's right. He is a Trump hater. And I guess the Democrats just aren't radical enough for this guy.
I'm old. It is my duty in life to repeat stuff you've already heard. Just wait, in another 10 years I'll start repeating myself several times in the same comment.
Actually, I think I will need to retire from all of this stuff long before then. At some point, I'll become even more incoherent than I already am.
I am also old enough to say, "Get off my lawn!" and don't think I won't tell you that one day.
If I said, "exact same" then I was wrong. I don't think I said "exact". The Weimar Republic was also a socialist government and because of that it collapsed. Hitler came along and promised a new kind of socialism, called national socialism. It wasn't knew, it was the same old pig, Hitler just put a different shade of lipstick on it.
"then set about excluding as many groups as they could as soon as they came into power?"
Part of that was based on racism but the bigger part is they new that government healthcare is a massive drain on the money the government steals from the people. Hitler wanted to take over the world and he wasn't going to let healthcare get in his way.
Many Democrat ideas are the same as the Nazis. But if you are going to get into the minutia then you will find differences. I am talking about general policies. No two socialist nations are going to enact the same policies. Especially because socialism creates dictatorships and malignant narcissists are attracted to that kind of power like flies to a turd.
"What is idiotic is thinking that a for-profit medical system that is administered by a for-profit health insurance industry results in anything other than a system optimized to put people into debt and squeeze every penny out of them possible."
So in your world there are only 2 options?
That's a shame because the free market always favors the consumer, not the corporations. If we truly freed the market (by dumping a century of social programs that are just band-aids to cover a gaping wound) then we would not need health insurance companies.
Also if we could throw out all of the legislation that protects health insurance companies then we would see a lot of alternatives.
One alternative was tried by the insurance companies sued and won against a clinic. The clinic decided that for $70 per month their subscribers were entitled to every service the clinic provided and all prescription drugs were included.
The insurance companies when to the government to cry that this type of thing could spread and it would put them out of business. The government sided with the insurance companies. The government said, no, and that a clinic cannot offer "insurance" because they were not an "insurance company". The consumer lost because of corporatism, NOT capitalism.
When the government stops being a burden to the taxpayers, the people prosper. Socialism is a 100% burden on the taxpayer. It is slavery.
