L. Cranston posted:Stanky posted:Right now we live with the precursor to socialism due to FDR's borrowing of Mussolini's economic system, just like most of the world's economies. Whether the politician calls itself a Fascist, Democrat, Republican, or Democratic Socialist; it seems that the only differences are in the degree of government control of their crony capitalists and populations and some wear business suits and oxfords while others wear khaki and jackboots. Considering our national debt and the desire of politicians to use other peoples money to buy votes , we might be joining Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea in the near future.
Not one Republican cares one bit about National Debt since Trump was elected. Trump/Republicans have spent money or given away tax breaks to corporations like water and nobody cares. Didn't you get the memo? That's not an issue since Republicans took over.
And when have the republicans ever had the 60 votes in the Senate to change the trajectory of the National Debt? Ol'bamacare and LBJ's "War on Poverty" came about because Dems had a supermajority that Republicans never have attained since Reconstruction.
We have been on the path to oblivion for over five decades and the only time it slowed down was because the US had a tech monopoly that no longer exists. I know primitive minds will attribute that entirely to their god on earth deity, but the real reason occurred before him; the research that created the chipsets and internet that fueled the 90s came from the defense appropriations of another exalted deity.