General Discussion

I remember people on the campaign trail asking me how it’s possible that working people don’t realize that voting for the same people as their bosses could never be in their best interest.

Well, the great unifying theme of the Republican Party right now is that they are going to tear the system down. An agenda that has accomplished that neat trick of politically aligning working people with the big bosses. Building a big tent that’s expanded the base of Republican voters in nearly every Midwestern state.

The billionaires, industrialists, and many others want the system torn down because they want to squeeze everyday people, the economy, our land and water, and our health for everything they can get. They want to transfer every spare dollar to the shareholder class and they’re tired of the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, courts, laws, regulations on financiers, and everything else getting in their way.

Everyday people want to tear down the system because it is corrupt, they can’t afford groceries, they can’t buy a house, and they basically have to work until they die.

The response to these voters just can’t be doubling down on “the system works” rhetoric and telling people that “no, it really works, and by the way you are voting against your own best interest by not supporting it.”

That’s a recipe for decades of 2024s, because people just don’t think the system is in their own self-interest anymore.