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WHO SUPPORTS THE WORKING MAN???

tshade

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Republicans hate people who work for a living, which is why they hate democracy. They consistently lose at the ballot box when voters get an unobstructed vote on the actual issues, even in so-called "conservative" states like Missouri. Because their agenda is to keep workers' wages low, and to deny workers' sick time and other benefits, their agenda is unpopular when voters see what it actually is, so Republicans lose and the people win statewide when there is a referendum. Therefore, Republicans are trying to make statewide referenda subject to their gerrymandering power.



 
Government is corrupt. Our so-called "representatives" do not represent us. They work for the billionaires. Of course they don't want the people deciding how government can serve the people. They want billionaires to decide.
 
Peacenik said:
Government is corrupt. Our so-called "representatives" do not represent us. They work for the billionaires. Of course they don't want the people deciding how government can serve the people. They want billionaires to decide.
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This. Our representatives are beholden to corporate interests. In that regard the only difference between Democrats and Republicans is that the latter infuses their rhetoric with Christian nationalism to goose and distract their base with culture war nonsense while they join Democrats in privatizing/selling off public interests, deregulating and dismantling safeguards against corporate abuse, facilitating manufacturing moving overseas where slave wages and no unions pump up corporate profit, and providing massive tax cuts to the wealthy.
 
Peacenik said:
Government is corrupt. Our so-called "representatives" do not represent us. They work for the billionaires. Of course they don't want the people deciding how government can serve the people. They want billionaires to decide.
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That is the fault of the voters who elect these bozos
 
tshade said:
Because their agenda is to keep workers' wages low,
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Good, that means lower prices for everyone. Labor is cost, reducing that cost is always good, that's why our homes are filled with labor-saving devices and machines.

tshade said:
and to deny workers' sick time and other benefits,
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Who cares. If the worker doesn't like the lack of benefits they can quit.
 

That out right despicable and a violation of our Constitutional framework where majority rules. Not the individual preponderances of gerrymandering rigged districts specifically designed to put thumbs on scales to predetermine outcomes.

It’s just plain wrong. Is what it is.
 

What do the voters think?

Here's an NPR article post 2024 election cycle that can help explain it.

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Why working-class voters have been shifting toward the Republican Party​

November 14, 20244:12 AM ET

 
Totally agree. Might only add that part of moving manufacturing overseas is to take advantage of less environmental regulation, too.
 
aociswundumho said:
Good, that means lower prices for everyone. Labor is cost, reducing that cost is always good, that's why our homes are filled with labor-saving devices and machines.



Who cares. If the worker doesn't like the lack of benefits they can quit.
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OK then how about we set the entire US wage structure to just $1 an hour and managers get $2 an hour.

That will surely cut costs and companies will make billions extra in profits so that's great.
People can always quit if they don't like it.

I take it you only get paid the absolute bare minimum wage so you can set a fine example to everyone else that libatarianism is the way of the future.
Good for you!
 
aociswundumho said:
Good, that means lower prices for everyone. Labor is cost, reducing that cost is always good, that's why our homes are filled with labor-saving devices and machines.



Who cares. If the worker doesn't like the lack of benefits they can quit.
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Libertarians believe the stupidest shit. It’s why their libertarian utopia has never existed in the entirety of human history.
 
aociswundumho said:
Good, that means lower prices for everyone. Labor is cost, reducing that cost is always good, that's why our homes are filled with labor-saving devices and machines.
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???? you are assuming that corporations want to keep YOUR costs down...?
aociswundumho said:
Who cares. If the worker doesn't like the lack of benefits they can quit.
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That's what they said in the Gilded Age--------a horrible time for the common man who worked....
 
This NPR article basically says that workers are dumb, so they voted Trump in 2024. Now they are paying for it. History shows that trump , and the GOP in general is rarely good for the working man, but here they say that Trump "tapped in" to their thinking. What are they? Stupid?
 
tshade said:
???? you are assuming that corporations want to keep YOUR costs down...?
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The lower their prices, the more stuff they sell. That's one reason why Amazon and Walmart are so successful.

tshade said:
That's what they said in the Gilded Age----
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That's right.

tshade said:
----a horrible time for the common man who worked....
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That's wrong.

 
Yeah, keep calling the voters stupid. Thats a great way to win them back to your side lol
 
aociswundumho said:
The lower their prices, the more stuff they sell. That's one reason why Amazon and Walmart are so successful.



That's right.



That's wrong.
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Adequate argument, but I will disagree.........................no one would want to go back to the G-Age,
 
Fletch said:
Yeah, keep calling the voters stupid. Thats a great way to win them back to your side lol
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Not trying to win anything...............just stating reality. I am a Republican ( not a Trumper), and yes, the voters had to be dumb to vote trump.............I mean, what possible rationality could there be?
 

Same typical leftist crap.

Here's one the reasons why they reject democrats, your side keeps calling working class people stupid.
 
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