03-02-2016, 07:06 AM
(03-01-2016, 01:13 PM)BenSkywalker Wrote:Quote:The two party system seems to leave a lot of you guys disillusioned.
Corporate puppet governments do at least. You seem to be OK with it for the time being, but it will continue to eat away at your society just as it has done to ours.
Quote:It's going to get really ugly down there if he wins.
Not really. President Obama hammered over and over how he was going to shut down Guantanamo Bay- on the home stretch to the eight year mark and it still hasn't happened. That is a, relatively speaking, minuscule factor compared to changing international trade governance. The only way Trump would be able to get it done, even if he won 100% of the vote, is if he had the house and Senate votes to back him. Personally I see it as more of a test of how aware people are to their government being in the service of corporate overlords. Bernie and Donald are both heavy with anti corporate rhetoric, so to me their popularity is encouraging.
For the record, I'm not even anti corporation per se, I simply see what the combination of globalization and mega mergers have resulted in for the global populace.
You know what though? The USA has one of the world's strongest economies even with all those corporations, free trade, and globalization. Your salaries are great as well and for a lot of people they have gone way up. So think about it, do you really want a guy like Trump coming in and shaking everything up? You really think things will get better? Because I can guarantee you that things will get way worse and your economy will completely tank if he gets what he wants. He may be a good businessman but he clearly does not understand the global economy or even the US economy. He seems like he knows a lot about real estate. Perhaps he should stick to that.