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How I Went From Far-Left Socialist to Conservative Republican

When I first started voting in 1967, my main thought was to stay out of the Vietnam War, which I hated (and still do). It was a Democrat then who was waging that war (Lyndon Johnson), and a Republican (Richard Nixon) who said he had a secret plan to end the war. Lots of leftists, including me, stunned by the Tet Offensive in 1968, desperate for an end to the war, believed him and voted for him, just on that alone. Then, after getting elected, in 1969, he escalated the war with round the clock bombings of North Vietnam.

For the next 40 years, I never voted for a Republican again. I voted for every Democrat or Green presidential candidate from McGovern in 1972 to Obama in 2008.
Although I always did have reservations about the Democratic party's positions on illegal immigration and affirmative action, I still retained my strong Marxist beginnings, and viewed the Democrats as being for the poor, the middle class, and the Republicans as being for the rich.

I looked with disgust at the gay pride perverted spectacles that Democrats seemed to support, and always thought >> What is there to be proud of ?

After the turn of the century, and 9/11, terrorism and Islamization becoming major factors, and having that become part of the scenario, I began to look closer at the differences between the 2 major parties. I found the Democrats to be disturbingly friendly to radical Islam, and less and less a friend of lower income Americans, with each passing year. The shocking blow that knocked me right out of my Democrat shoes, in 2009 was the Fort Hood shooting. Being an Army veteran myself, I couldn't help thinking the 13 soldiers shot dead by terrorist Nidal Hasan could have been me. Couldn't deny that a lot of the blame for the massacre was with Obama (commander in chief of all US military) who, for months, refused to eject Hasan from the Army with a dishonorable discharge, despite official requests for that, from almost every Fort Hood officer of the rank of major and higher.

Then I saw Obama, pull US troops out of Iraq in 2011, created a vacuum, that was sure to be filled by jihadists. Sure enough, along came ISIS, and Obama mostly ignored them, while their convoys were on open, desert roads, sitting ducks for airstrikes. Obama's pitifully few airstrikes were called "pin pricks" by ex-Generals.

In 2012, I voted for Virgil Goode, rather than the RINO Romney. In 2016, when the Democrats had lost their connection to the low income classes, with Hillary Clinton's campaign heavily donated by rich, Wall St interests, and greatly outspent Trump, I knew I couldn't vote for that. Clinton also was a pure globalist with a strong connection to outsourcing, having voted for it in the Senate, and being a member of pro outsourcing organizations (Trilateral Commission & Council on Foreign Relations).

Trump was just the opposite. Was not in cahoots with Wall St., wasn't throwing US workers under the bus with illegal immigration, wasn't cool with the Islamic seditionists, was not a globalist and was a nationalist, supporting US businesses and workers, and wasn't an enemy of most of the US population on the affirmative action issue. I became a registered Republican in 2016, and voted for Trump in the primary and general election. He came through big, giving us a good economy, low unemployment (lowest ever for minorities) and the highest median wage in US history, along with many other things good for poor, and working class people.

All this was now in addition to the Democrats gone completely insane with riots, induced by media false reporting, and insane ideas like Critical Race Theory, police defunding, tran men competing with women in womens' sports, excessive gun control, immorally loose abortion ideas, and wrecking our democracy by election stealing and the shameful Biden Afghanistan fiasco, leaving Americans and tens of Billions of US equipment to the Taliban.
 
HA HA HA. So you got SUCKERED on the ties thing, huh ? They weren't outsourcing, they were brand licensing. Chinese company, not American. Wrong! >> No "profit margin" to Trump. Only brand licensing fee. You don't know what you're talking about. This is what happens to people who watch CNN, MSNBC, PBS, MSM.

As for the trade deficits, >> View attachment 67354432..... View attachment 67354433 Trump's tariffs DID turn our trade deficit around to some partial degree, but you cant expect a total turnaround of 30 years of globalism in 4 years. At least Trump put us back on the correct course. ($31 Billion reduction of Chinese imports in 6 months of 2019)

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How that actually benefits America today, is

1) by allowing American manufacturers to produce those formerly imported goods, thereby expanding American GDP, and creating more jobs in the US, and from that more disposable income being spent into the US economy, from those newly hired employees.

2) American made products tend to be of better quality. I remember 15-20 years ago, already deep into Chinese importation, I had a TV set whose tuner konked out after one year. The old American ones used to last us 20 years, and could be fixed by repairmen coming to the house. I had a China-made VCR whose eject button fell inside the unit frame, leaving a hole in the front of the unit. I used to keep a pencil handy to stick in the hole to eject my tapes. Life in China import America.

3) It's never good to have too much stuff coming into the country. That develops a dependency to the import countries, which is unfavorable to national security. Currently pharmaceuticals (including Covid vaccine) are noted as being dangerously in this category, but they're far from the only ones.

After imposing steel and aluminum tariffs, based on national security concerns, the Trump Administration opened six additional Section 232 investigations, intensifying debate over potential legislation to revise the authority. The investigations covered imports of:
 automobile and automobile parts, initiated May 23, 2018;
 uranium ore and related products, initiated July 18, 2018;
 titanium sponge, initiated March 4, 2019;
 transformers and certain grain-oriented electrical steel parts, initiated May 4, 2020;
 mobile cranes, initiated May 6, 2020; and
 vanadium, initiated June 3, 2020
Commerce determined imports of each of the first three products threaten to impair national security. The final reports were submitted to the President, but have not been made public. The President chose not to impose restrictions on uranium and titanium, but potential import restrictions on autos remain pending. The latter three investigations are ongoing.

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45249.pdf

I have already shown you that Trump's ties are not owned by a Chinese company. He has stated his reasons for outsourcing, and it is because he claims American manufacturers just can't compete.

As to the trade deficits, he didn't turn them around at all. He did the exact opposite of turn them around. Trade deficits increased while Trump was in office. We had higher trade deficits every single year Trump was in office than we did back when he was complaining about trade deficits under Obama. Trade deficits went from Obama's $500 Billion in 2016 to $679 Billion in 2020 under Trump. That's the opposite of putting us 'back on the correct course.'

You talk about how much the trade war hurt China because you don't want to address how much it hurt America. If we had seen any actual benefit to our own trade, you would have posted about how much it benefited America, instead of how much it hurt China. But you can't. Because it didn't benefit us at all. The trade war hurt us even worse than it hurt China. It helped South Korea though, which was the whole point. To help Trump's own interests abroad, at the expense of Americans. Because Trump is a globalist. He had a 'Trump First' foreign policy.
 
When I first started voting in 1967, my main thought was to stay out of the Vietnam War, which I hated (and still do). It was a Democrat then who was waging that war (Lyndon Johnson), and a Republican (Richard Nixon) who said he had a secret plan to end the war. Lots of leftists, including me, stunned by the Tet Offensive in 1968, desperate for an end to the war, believed him and voted for him, just on that alone. Then, after getting elected, in 1969, he escalated the war with round the clock bombings of North Vietnam.

For the next 40 years, I never voted for a Republican again. I voted for every Democrat or Green presidential candidate from McGovern in 1972 to Obama in 2008.
Although I always did have reservations about the Democratic party's positions on illegal immigration and affirmative action, I still retained my strong Marxist beginnings, and viewed the Democrats as being for the poor, the middle class, and the Republicans as being for the rich.

I looked with disgust at the gay pride perverted spectacles that Democrats seemed to support, and always thought >> What is there to be proud of ?

After the turn of the century, and 9/11, terrorism and Islamization becoming major factors, and having that become part of the scenario, I began to look closer at the differences between the 2 major parties. I found the Democrats to be disturbingly friendly to radical Islam, and less and less a friend of lower income Americans, with each passing year. The shocking blow that knocked me right out of my Democrat shoes, in 2009 was the Fort Hood shooting. Being an Army veteran myself, I couldn't help thinking the 13 soldiers shot dead by terrorist Nidal Hasan could have been me. Couldn't deny that a lot of the blame for the massacre was with Obama (commander in chief of all US military) who, for months, refused to eject Hasan from the Army with a dishonorable discharge, despite official requests for that, from almost every Fort Hood officer of the rank of major and higher.

Then I saw Obama, pull US troops out of Iraq in 2011, created a vacuum, that was sure to be filled by jihadists. Sure enough, along came ISIS, and Obama mostly ignored them, while their convoys were on open, desert roads, sitting ducks for airstrikes. Obama's pitifully few airstrikes were called "pin pricks" by ex-Generals.

In 2012, I voted for Virgil Goode, rather than the RINO Romney. In 2016, when the Democrats had lost their connection to the low income classes, with Hillary Clinton's campaign heavily donated by rich, Wall St interests, and greatly outspent Trump, I knew I couldn't vote for that. Clinton also was a pure globalist with a strong connection to outsourcing, having voted for it in the Senate, and being a member of pro outsourcing organizations (Trilateral Commission & Council on Foreign Relations).

Trump was just the opposite. Was not in cahoots with Wall St., wasn't throwing US workers under the bus with illegal immigration, wasn't cool with the Islamic seditionists, was not a globalist and was a nationalist, supporting US businesses and workers, and wasn't an enemy of most of the US population on the affirmative action issue. I became a registered Republican in 2016, and voted for Trump in the primary and general election. He came through big, giving us a good economy, low unemployment (lowest ever for minorities) and the highest median wage in US history, along with many other things good for poor, and working class people.

All this was now in addition to the Democrats gone completely insane with riots, induced by media false reporting, and insane ideas like Critical Race Theory, police defunding, tran men competing with women in womens' sports, excessive gun control, immorally loose abortion ideas, and wrecking our democracy by election stealing and the shameful Biden Afghanistan fiasco, leaving Americans and tens of Billions of US equipment to the Taliban.

Welcome to the Republican Party. I've seen the left change drastically over the years, for today they are so far left, the moderates are gone.....and definitely not for the working people in this country.....race is all they see......and have the need to dictate, instead of convince.

Moderation is key to almost all aspects of life, and a main reason for being a Republican, imo. The left is pushing fear and hatred and great division in our country. Politicians love to spend other peoples money, but damn, the left is craaaazy about it.....this has to stop. Get to work America, join the Republican Party, protect the unborn, worship God, love your country and live in peace with your family.
 
Welcome to the Republican Party. I've seen the left change drastically over the years, for today they are so far left, the moderates are gone.....and definitely not for the working people in this country.....race is all they see......and have the need to dictate, instead of convince.

Moderation is key to almost all aspects of life, and a main reason for being a Republican, imo. The left is pushing fear and hatred and great division in our country. Politicians love to spend other peoples money, but damn, the left is craaaazy about it.....this has to stop. Get to work America, join the Republican Party, protect the unborn, worship God, love your country and live in peace with your family.
Yes, and have a good COLD beer, on a hot Florida day.
 
Your journey from far left commie/rat/socialist to a conservative would have been a lot quicker and more direct if you had just started a small business and employed people.
 
Your journey from far left commie/rat/socialist to a conservative would have been a lot quicker and more direct if you had just started a small business and employed people.
I DID do that (in 1983), and still kept voting Democrat. When the disease of leftism is in you, it goes deep. One of the problems is that left wingers staunchly avoid any information from the right. So they are not thinking the same things we are.

Hard to believe when I look back on it, but I voted for Dukakis in 1988, without ever having heard the name "Willie Horton" (which of course was kept out of MSM, PBS, and other left programming).
 
I have already shown you that Trump's ties are not owned by a Chinese company. He has stated his reasons for outsourcing, and it is because he claims American manufacturers just can't compete.

As to the trade deficits, he didn't turn them around at all. He did the exact opposite of turn them around. Trade deficits increased while Trump was in office. We had higher trade deficits every single year Trump was in office than we did back when he was complaining about trade deficits under Obama. Trade deficits went from Obama's $500 Billion in 2016 to $679 Billion in 2020 under Trump. That's the opposite of putting us 'back on the correct course.'

You talk about how much the trade war hurt China because you don't want to address how much it hurt America. If we had seen any actual benefit to our own trade, you would have posted about how much it benefited America, instead of how much it hurt China. But you can't. Because it didn't benefit us at all. The trade war hurt us even worse than it hurt China. It helped South Korea though, which was the whole point. To help Trump's own interests abroad, at the expense of Americans. Because Trump is a globalist. He had a 'Trump First' foreign policy.
You showed nothing of the kind. As I stated before, the ties that Hillary Clinton ran TV ads about were owned by a Chinese company, and Trump's name being on them was only brand licensing, not outsourcing.

As for the trade deficits, you present zero source information, so all you are posting is hearsay. As I stated before, and posted a chart in Post # 299, Trump's tariffs brought about a reduction of $31 Billion of Chinese imports, and yes, this is how I posted about how much it benefited America, by then allowing those items to be produced by American manufactureres, with all the additional jobs coming from that. This is Trump's America First policy - NATIONALIST, not globalist.
 
You showed nothing of the kind. As I stated before, the ties that Hillary Clinton ran TV ads about were owned by a Chinese company, and Trump's name being on them was only brand licensing, not outsourcing.

Well, I was inclined to give you the benefit of that doubt at first and assume you just didn't know any better. But now I know you are just lying. The Trump Signature Collection isn't owned by a Chinese company.

If it were, Trump would still be on the hook as a Globalist for publicly endorsing and associating his brand with a Chinese company. But it isn't owned by a Chinese company. Trump has explained why he outsourced his ties. It is because, in his words, "it’s impossible for our companies to compete."

You have already implicitly admitted that you were lying about the Trump Signature Collection being owned by a Chinese company here:

Trump Signature Collection is just a NAME ( which generated income for Trump) Does'nt matter what country the stuff is made in. It still isn't Trump owned, or have anything to do with outsourcing. Stop being a Hillary Clinton DUPE.



As for the trade deficits, you present zero source information, so all you are posting is hearsay. As I stated before, and posted a chart, Trump's tariffs brought about a reduction of $31 Billion of Chinese imports, and yes, this is how I posted about how much it benefited America, by then allowing those items to be produced by American manufactureres with all the additional jobs coming from that. This is Trump's America First policy - NATIONALIST, not globalist.

You can't look up annual trade deficits for yourself?

Trade Deficit
 
So let me see if I got this right....

Trump allowed a Chinese firm to use his name to put on ties that he sold at Macy's....appeared in the ads....but didn't make any money off of it?



Is that the crazy you're selling today?
 
Well, I was inclined to give you the benefit of that doubt at first and assume you just didn't know any better. But now I know you are just lying. The Trump Signature Collection isn't owned by a Chinese company.

If it were, Trump would still be on the hook as a Globalist for publicly endorsing and associating his brand with a Chinese company. But it isn't owned by a Chinese company. Trump has explained why he outsourced his ties. It is because, in his words, "it’s impossible for our companies to compete."

You have already implicitly admitted that you were lying about the Trump Signature Collection being owned by a Chinese company here:







You can't look up annual trade deficits for yourself?

Trade Deficit
You're just now figuring out that he is full of shit?
 
In the first 2 years of The Trump administration, Trumps policies brought back 400,000+ manufacturing jobs to the US. Obama actually lost manufacturing jobs in his last year. The Chinese Trump tie thing is weak, people, really weak.
 
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In the first 2 years of The Trump administration, Trumps policies brought back 400,000+ manufacturing jobs to the US. Obama actually lost manufacturing jobs in his last year. The Chinese Trump tie thing is weak, people, really weak.

Funny you should bring up manufacturing job losses in a president's last year. Your guy lost 740,000 in his last year, resulting in a net loss over the course of his entire presidency.
 
Well, I was inclined to give you the benefit of that doubt at first and assume you just didn't know any better. But now I know you are just lying. The Trump Signature Collection isn't owned by a Chinese company.

If it were, Trump would still be on the hook as a Globalist for publicly endorsing and associating his brand with a Chinese company. But it isn't owned by a Chinese company. Trump has explained why he outsourced his ties. It is because, in his words, "it’s impossible for our companies to compete."

You have already implicitly admitted that you were lying about the Trump Signature Collection being owned by a Chinese company here:

You can't look up annual trade deficits for yourself?

Trade Deficit
"implicitly".. Not hardly. "implicitly" is a derivative of the word imply, and I never imply, insinuate, or infer anything. if I have something to say, I say it, in clear cut words. And what I say is that ties with Trump's name on them are either ties made and sold in the US, or if sold in China, they are made in China and are brand licensing, not outsourcing. Some people have to be told 3 times.

OK, we'll go through this again >>
This is copy/pasted from YOUR LINK. >> "PVH ended its licensing agreement with Trump in July 2015, after Macy's discontinued sales of his Trump Signature Collection due to controversial comments that he made regarding illegal immigrants.[12]"

You still don't seem to be able to get what a brand licensing agreement is. Is this possible ?

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You can't look up annual trade deficits for yourself?

Trade Deficit
As I already told, Trump reduced imports from China by $31 Billion/year. I also told you that one does not undo 30 years of globalist stupidity, in just 4 short years. US stores are saturated with Chinese made garbage, and that isn't reversed overnight.

Now with China-friendly Joe Globalist as POTUS, China once again gets absurd, unrestricted access to our MARKET, depriving American businesses and workers. This is totally unecessary, since with our large and lucrative MARKET, we are holding all the cards. China needs us, we don't need them, but this fact is moot to globalists like Biden, who have no concern for the USA, and who like Obama, considers himself a "citizen of the world", or just a guy who is out to get as much as he can for HIMSELF and his family.

 
So let me see if I got this right....

Trump allowed a Chinese firm to use his name to put on ties that he sold at Macy's....appeared in the ads....but didn't make any money off of it?



Is that the crazy you're selling today?

You're trying to think too much. Look up "brand licensing". Sorry that your CNN never mentioned it.
 
In the first 2 years of The Trump administration, Trumps policies brought back 400,000+ manufacturing jobs to the US. Obama actually lost manufacturing jobs in his last year. The Chinese Trump tie thing is weak, people, really weak.
They don't even know that the Hillary TV ads were a scam. I don't think they ever heard the words "brand licensing" until I mentioned it here. A quick search of the word licensing shows that AConcernedCitizen has never posted the word until Post # 209 in this thread, well after I had mentioned already a few times.

dncc has never posted the word, in debate politics,

Information-deprived victims of liberal OMISSION media.
 
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You're trying to think too much. Look up "brand licensing". Sorry that your CNN never mentioned it.
Try looking up globalist; you'll see Trump's picture next to the definition. Sorry Gateway Pundit never mentioned it.
 
Try looking up globalist; you'll see Trump's picture next to the definition. Sorry Gateway Pundit never mentioned it.
Try looking up brand licensing.
 
You create your ownd definitions to avoid calling Trump what he is; a globalist.
He is a NATIONALIST (and Populist) - exact opposite of a a globalist, INTERnationalist, communist.

Biden says > Workers of the WORLD unite ; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Trump says > Workers of the USA unite : you have nothing to lose but CNN fake news.
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