Poll: Do You Agree With This Controversial Message From US Senate Candidate Blake Masters (R-AZ) That Psychopaths Are Running America?

[otto105]

Who cares. When you turn 65 you can get Medicare. Until then, buy some health care for yourself if you want, and quit expecting other people to pay for it. If you are truly disabled and cannot provide for yourself, you can get medicaid which us working people will pay for, for you. Why do you need a handout?

Does a sicker society make more productive workers?

 

[22lcidw]

FDR said 'we have nothing to fear but fear itself'. The republicans should be saying 'we have nothing to offer but fear itself'. No health care, no day care and none of this minimum wage malarkey. They'd love to come out and say no social security if they thought they could get away with it and in the mean time 'Beware, the Mexicans are Coming'. Notice how republicans are trying to get rid of the post office so they can privatize it and have some corporation take it over! That's over a half million jobs with benefits they could eliminate. Maybe let Walmart run it and no benefits of course. Maybe let that Amazon guy run it! Cheap wages so you gotta work 2 or 3 jobs. This is what republicans are all about, folks.

Convincing people that industrial era jobs were so past age and creating service era jobs saying everyone will benefit was the words of the politicians back then. They lied. The trade deals then sealed the destruction. But it made it easier to raise taxes and give out more agendas and benefits as the products made overseas were vastly cheaper.

 

[otto105]

It sounds to me like he has a refreshing change to offer and if elected will vote for:

- Increasing domestic energy supply
- Enforced national borders
- Keeping children in school
- Banning the teaching of CRT, and instead teaching reading, writing and civics
- Letting people make their own medical decisions about vaccines and masks

Those all seem like beneficial initiatives to me.

What specifically do you take issue with, or are you simply going to insult him because he's Conservative?

It sounds like like you prefer Pottersville instead of Bedford Falls.

- The tar sands oil isn't going to provide anything but more carbon.
- We already enforce our national borders, we just don't separate families there anymore.
- President Biden has stated that his priority is to keep children in schools.
- CRT isn't taught in schools. You want white feelings taught in schools.
- Good public health policy make sense more than maga fuckup political feelings

Ya, beneficial all.

I'm insulting him because he's just another maga fuckup cutout pining for an authoritarian republic.

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

FDR said 'we have nothing to fear but fear itself'. The republicans should be saying 'we have nothing to offer but fear itself'. No health care, no day care and none of this minimum wage malarkey. They'd love to come out and say no social security if they thought they could get away with it and in the mean time 'Beware, the Mexicans are Coming'. Notice how republicans are trying to get rid of the post office so they can privatize it and have some corporation take it over! That's over a half million jobs with benefits they could eliminate. Maybe let Walmart run it and no benefits of course. Maybe let that Amazon guy run it! Cheap wages so you gotta work 2 or 3 jobs. This is what republicans are all about, folks.

We obviously have completely different understandings of the function of government.

You are looking for the government to "provide things" for you.

Me, I look at the government as a parasite which takes my money and gives free stuff to people who don't work as hard as I do.

It's clearly not fear that the Republicans are selling. It's the opposite. Confidence in the people to provide for themselves and make their own decision about how their money should be spent. That's not fear; it's courage. The Dems sell the fear - that poor folks will perish without government handouts. We Republicans would prefer to give the needy job opportunities instead of welfare checks and EBT cards.

We Republicans want to limit they government, because as history consistently shows, they government messes up most things that it creates using other people's money. Me, I think I can make better use of my money if I am allowed to keep it.

Those things you mention like health care and day care, I want to go out an purchase myself using my own money. I don't want the government to take two or three times as much as it costs to "provide" me with substandard service.

I think these fundamentally different expectations about the role of government that you and I have explain quite a bit and why America is so politically divided recently. It doesn't seem like this will be resolved anytime soon. It's likely to only get worse... As more and more people who vote expect the government to "provide" things for them, they will take more and more of others' money until the inevitable happens - the socialists run out of other people's money.

Regards,
Jim

 

[otto105]

We obviously have completely different understandings of the function of government.

You are looking for the government to "provide things" for you.

Me, I look at the government as a parasite which takes my money and gives free stuff to people who don't work as hard as I do.

It's clearly not fear that the Republicans are selling. It's the opposite. Confidence in the people to provide for themselves and make their own decision about how their money should be spent. That's not fear; it's courage. The Dems sell the fear - that poor folks will perish without government handouts. We Republicans would prefer to give the needy job opportunities instead of welfare checks and EBT cards.

We Republicans want to limit they government, because as history consistently shows, they government messes up most things that it creates using other people's money. Me, I think I can make better use of my money if I am allowed to keep it.

Those things you mention like health care and day care, I want to go out an purchase myself using my own money. I don't want the government to take two or three times as much as it costs to "provide" me with substandard service.

I think these fundamentally different expectations about the role of government that you and I have explain quite a bit and why America is so politically divided recently. It doesn't seem like this will be resolved anytime soon. It's likely to only get worse... As more and more people who vote expect the government to "provide" things for them, they will take more and more of others' money until the inevitable happens - the socialists run out of other people's money.

Regards,
Jim

Jim

You don't nearly as hard as you do claiming that you do.

When we had really small government in our country what did we look like?

 

[j-mac]

The guy is a fascist maga fuckup with nothing beneficial to offer our Democracy.

So, that's a 'no' for your vote in '24 then?

 

[otto105]

So, that's a 'no' for your vote in '24 then?

Yup, going to vote for Democracy in both 22' and 24'.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

It sounds to me like he has a refreshing change to offer and if elected will vote for:

- Increasing domestic energy supply
- Enforced national borders
- Keeping children in school
- Banning the teaching of CRT, and instead teaching reading, writing and civics
- Letting people make their own medical decisions about vaccines and masks

Those all seem like beneficial initiatives to me.

What specifically do you take issue with, or are you simply going to insult him because he's Conservative?

He knows the vapid talking points.

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

Jim

You don't nearly as hard as you do claiming that you do.

When we had really small government in our country what did we look like?

>You don't [work] nearly as hard as you do claiming that you do.

Otto, you don't know me.

I started working when I was 12. I worked with my dad moving office furniture on weekends while he worked his second job.

Throughout middle school and high school, I rode my bicycle miles to the grocery store after school and worked for tips only bagging groceries while always making honor roll and taking the toughest science/math curriculum possible.

I bought my 1966 Mustang when I was 16 years old with my own money. I drove my girlfriend to work in it. She is now my wife of decades, and the Mustang is in my garage as I type this.

I worked throughout college and ever since. I graduated with a 4.0 in my engineering major, because I studied as hard as I worked.

I have never been unemployed and saved at least 10% of my pay my whole life.

As such, I am quite wealthy and have no debt. I have never taken any government assistance other than things like "stimulus" payments which I did not want or need (the government increased our debt by $14000 per taxpayer in order to give everyone $1400 payments).

Everyone can be successful if they strive to do so every day.

You?

 

[SweetTea]

The "pychopaths" are posting videos on YouTube. This guy is a loon.

LOL..you voted that inflation is just temporary. That shows a complete lack of understanding of basic economics. I can't blame you much, many "educated" economists were saying the same thing until a few months ago. Lemmings...all of you.

 

[skye]

I just voted yes I agree.

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

LOL..you voted that inflation is just temporary. That shows a complete lack of understanding of basic economics. I can't blame you much, many "educated" economists were saying the same thing until a few months ago. Lemmings...all of you.

They don't realize that even if inflation eventually moderates a bit, the high prices are here to stay.

Everyone who gets a big fat raise of 5% this year actually ends up with a huge pay cut.

On the plus side, no more mean tweets.

 

[maybelooking]

one mans psychopath is another mans completely retarded moron I suppose.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

They don't realize that even if inflation eventually moderates a bit, the high prices are here to stay.

Everyone who gets a big fat raise of 5% this year actually ends up with a huge pay cut.

On the plus side, no more mean tweets.

No more insurrections, extorting foreign leaders, or constant global embarrassment, either.

Only difference would have been the current inflation AND enduring the mentally ill orange pile of crap.

 

[maybelooking]

They don't realize that even if inflation eventually moderates a bit, the high prices are here to stay.

Everyone who gets a big fat raise of 5% this year actually ends up with a huge pay cut.

On the plus side, no more mean tweets.

most of the idiot libs here cant tie their shoelaces.......so raises, inflation, taxes and such dont mean much to them.

 

[j-mac]

Yup, going to vote for Democracy in both 22' and 24'.

America’s Founders carefully thought through the problems of direct democracy and explicitly rejected this model—and for good reason. They saw that because ancient democracies lacked any social or institutional forces that could check, refine, or moderate the will of the majority, they were prone to great instability, riven by factionalism, and subject to the passions and short-sightedness of the public. Direct democracies were thus vulnerable to tyranny.

American republicanism, by contrast, offers protections from the instability, rashness, impetuosity, and social and political tyranny of democratic politics because it recognizes that the majority does not equal the whole of the community. Republicanism recognizes the valid contributions to the welfare of the community by non- and even counter-majoritarian parts of the community. Indeed, justice demands that, even in a nation rooted in popular consent, non- and counter-majoritarian forces must be blended together. In this way, republicanism protects the minority from unjust majorities and secures the conditions for the political and social freedoms that are the true goal of the American revolution.

But this is not all. As Tocqueville correctly foresaw, the limitless passion for equality—the root cause for seeking direct democracy—undermines respect for all of those social, familial, civic, and religious institutions that separate individuals from one another, establish hierarchies, dictate codes of behavior, and, most importantly, help us preserve our liberties.

America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy

Contrary to popular belief, America is not, nor was it meant to be, a pure democracy. America is a republic. Nevertheless, more and more voices today are calling for America to become a direct democracy.

www.heritage.org

 

[otto105]

America’s Founders carefully thought through the problems of direct democracy and explicitly rejected this model—and for good reason. They saw that because ancient democracies lacked any social or institutional forces that could check, refine, or moderate the will of the majority, they were prone to great instability, riven by factionalism, and subject to the passions and short-sightedness of the public. Direct democracies were thus vulnerable to tyranny.

American republicanism, by contrast, offers protections from the instability, rashness, impetuosity, and social and political tyranny of democratic politics because it recognizes that the majority does not equal the whole of the community. Republicanism recognizes the valid contributions to the welfare of the community by non- and even counter-majoritarian parts of the community. Indeed, justice demands that, even in a nation rooted in popular consent, non- and counter-majoritarian forces must be blended together. In this way, republicanism protects the minority from unjust majorities and secures the conditions for the political and social freedoms that are the true goal of the American revolution.

But this is not all. As Tocqueville correctly foresaw, the limitless passion for equality—the root cause for seeking direct democracy—undermines respect for all of those social, familial, civic, and religious institutions that separate individuals from one another, establish hierarchies, dictate codes of behavior, and, most importantly, help us preserve our liberties.

America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy

Contrary to popular belief, America is not, nor was it meant to be, a pure democracy. America is a republic. Nevertheless, more and more voices today are calling for America to become a direct democracy.

www.heritage.org

Why didn't you start with that?

What ancient democracies did the Founding Father see? Every country in the old world at that time and before was authoritarian, feudal. They used some aspects of Roman and English law to write a new form of government. This new form of government had checks and balances as too dilute the power of one branch over another. It was set up as debate and consensus to reach better bills and laws. It requires both sides to act in good governance faith.

Your first paragraph aptly explains the current status of the GOP.

Comment.

 

[j-mac]

Why didn't you start with that?

What ancient democracies did the Founding Father see? Every country in the old world at that time and before was authoritarian, feudal. They used some aspects of Roman and English law to write a new form of government. This new form of government had checks and balances as too dilute the power of one branch over another. It was set up as debate and consensus to reach better bills and laws. It requires both sides to act in good governance faith.

Your first paragraph aptly explains the current status of the GOP.

Comment.

I think we could get back to that if elements of both sides would pull away from the extremes....

 

[otto105]

I think we could get back to that if elements of both sides would pull away from the extremes....

Agreed, but one side is going that way.

 

[j-mac]

Agreed, but one side is going that way.

Well, I think there are those on both sides trying, but are quickly shouted down by the rhetoric these days...It's a bad situation, and we'd better get a handle on it before it just becomes irreconcilable....