When the GOP Crosses Into Total Insanity. Like Now.

[Indy]

I dunno man the gov't seemed to be working just fine here until the last couple of decades or so.

[eynon81]

[Indy]

Well the bank example certainly works because you certainly don't have to tell ME about the downside to TBTF banks.

I just think that in the end, some things are just more efficient if you do them nationally, rather than 50 different ways (literally). Not all, but some.

[eynon81]

[exploited]

As far as I can tell, these are the only things that make sense nationally: currency, national defense, civil rights, the environment, inter-state trade (prior to it being expanded to include just about everything anyone does ever).

[eynon81]

[Dennis]

[Indy]

I don't think it's accurate at all now to say that the Dems are "for the people,' i.e., populists.

There's exceptions of course: people like Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, but Obama made it clear right after being elected that the people he cares about are people like Jamie Dimon. The only things the Dems have done in recent times that has been remotely "for the people," was Obamacare (i.e., health care reform), although that ultimately was a sellout to... just guess.

Granted, on social issues they have walked the walk. Kinda. Remember, Obama dithered on gay marriage until the tide swept him away. He jumped on that bandwagon--he didn't drive it.

For the most part the Dems are all about what just about everybody in Washington D.C. is about at this point: self-enrichment, getting re-elected, and then scoring a fat lucrative post-career with whichever donors bribed them the most to pass laws favoring them.

Of course minorities are going to flock to a party that doesn't dangle them in front of their drooling angry white constituents as evidence that "their" America is being stolen away by all these... non-white folk.

That still doesn't change the fact that if you're black and poor in this country you are still screwed, even if the president is African American. Hell, we have a Democratic mayor in Chicago and he just closed 50 schools. Do you think those were schools white kids in Lincoln Park went to? I'll let you answer that.

So what we've got in this country is a piss-poor, do the bare minimum party in the Dems and then not to be outdone, the not-even-an-option batsh*t crazy GOP whose only ideology at this point seems to be stripping away gov't--whether it's a good idea or not--while manufacturing rage 24/7 and outlandish conspiracy theories, all while playing the victim card and cloaking their intolerance in legitimacy supposedly afforded by being a "Christian" or "conservative."

Lose/lose.

[eynon81]

PSA:
Jamie Dimon is the douchiest name ever...seriously it's like the name of a James Bond villain.

[Indy]

Oh it's even better than that: you should see him on TV, when he speaks.

Even more of a cartoonish villain: Lloyd Blankfein.

I wouldn't buy a mattress from these guys, but they're running our financial system.