But we weren't hostile. We weren't vicious. Hell, what do they need? I want to help people move towards the left, but most of the time I do so, I'm confronted with this kind of nonsense. And combating the nonsense is treated as an attack.
It's not an attack on you! You're probably a fellow worker.
Man covered in shit principle. Whatever you say will be said by a man covered in shit, and while you may not see the ones on your side they will still exist and the other person probably came across them. This is the issue with raw trying to convince someone, so don't come at it from that angle.
Just have a talk.
Do not try to point to what is different. Find the points of commonality. The more you can find, the more agreeable both of you will be when things turn for the differences allowing things to remain civil and not turn to shitflinging.
When it comes to the differences, do not try to convince. Present your perspective and listen to theirs. Go to the core of why. Do not be afraid of being wrong. Even the most studied does not have all the answers.
Ignore. Anything. Current. Focus on principle.
Also forced balanced budget? Federal budget?
Federal budget deficits means there is more money floating around in our pockets, unlike a local government running a budget deficit which means they're short on tax revenue which they need to collect to offset actual spending because they're funded that way.
Not really. About 6 trillion is between government agency funding shenanigans. 10 trillion in the federal reserve who's bonds operate on the bank level as a sorta supply to help pay for interest on accounts that at current rates the middle and lower classes really don't benefit much from. Another 6 trillion is on foreign investment. Cut off another $1 trillion for state/local governments, and a good chunk of another trillion to account that individuals won't form too much in the 'other' compared to other banks, corproations, etc. So you end up with about $4 trillion in the American People and only so much is going to make that to middle and lower classes compared to upper.
Meanwhile, the move to fiat money that has allowed for this continued increasing pile of debt to be done without need to back up the money has completely and utterly fucked the dollar's value, tearing wages away from productivity and leaving us on a path of utter breakdown if growth slows below the rate at which the debt increases.
The Federal Reserve has put a blank check to buy bad loans in order to prevent our economy from breaking. That is the only reason we are remotely stable. We have a good enough credit rating right now that this can be done, but this is very much a 'should be used sparingly' hat trick.
Edit:It genuinely frightens me that anyone with any sense of rationality or morality would feel obligated to defend a fascist for literally anything. You should really try and not do that any more, Zan.
Because I used writings of Mussolini to find out what the ideology wanted (know your enemy and all that) and compared that to Trump and found the fascistic descriptor wanting outside of maybe the broad authoritarian context that the US has kinda already been doing and in worse ways often. I can concede authoritarian, but the particulars of fascism just aren't there without stretching from what I've found.
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