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Originally Posted by Adder
That you look around the world we live in, in the fall of 2020, and think, “woo hoo, everything is going to stay the same” says so much more about you than you realize.
Say what you will about Trumpists, but at least it’s an ethos. At least those people actively what things to be worse for the people they don’t like. You just don’t give a shit about anyone but yourself.
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1. You've argued that things will stay the same endlessly for the last ten years. Continuation of the status quo or something near it is a bedrock of your arguments. Now you're on the other side of the street? Interesting.
2. You just argued it is preferable to desire to harm others than be unconcerned with them. You may want to rethink that.
3. Half of the country just split the ticket and voted out Trump while retaining moderates and conservatives in the House and Senate. Biden won because he was moderate.
I'm thrilled to see gridlock because, like a lot of Americans (like most of them, apparently), I've felt exiled since the days of Bill Clinton. (Obama presided over gridlock, but that gridlock included his regulatory and tax policies, whereas now we have gridlock with more growth friendly GOP tax policies.) Most of us are socially tolerant to liberal, but we also - quite reasonably - do not wish to deal with greater govt oversight or increased taxation that wastes money on administration of bloated agencies.
We don't want to be governed by right wing people who think they have a right to tell us who to marry, what drugs we can take, or that a woman does not enjoy autonomy over her body. But we also do not wish to be dictated to by woke loonies (most of whom are malcontent white progressives who've warped and ruined BLM) or clueless Green New Dealers.
I'm not selfish. But unlike you, who takes a check from someone else and doesn't know what it is to take a risk in life, my wife and I and millions like us keep this economy humming. She supports a lot of families. And if I don't keep the business coming in, and simultaneously succeed at it, I don't eat.
We're tired of hearing from the left and the right. We're tired of people like you and your silly political views which if adopted would screw with our bottom line or cause us to have to deal with more compliance nonsense.
We agree with you that Trump was unfit, and we feared that a blue wave might not only replace him, but also the Senate. And that was scary. Because we who run businesses rather than accept checks from them realize that people like AOC, and naive sorts like you who think she's just swell, would Fuck Up The Economy.
In a moment where you and I can both enjoy a victory lap, we should. Trump is gone, a moderate is in charge, and gridlock ensures nothing radical is going to happen. After the last four years of craziness, I'd say this is a damn good situation.
