The problem, that is illogical, is you use the same tactics of lumping everyone into the same boat. Your method of discourse represents someone that is completely soured and void of reason.
Or just someone who has no tolerance for fools. I guess I don't take a lot of time to parse the level of crazy on this board, because life is, well, too short.
What happened to you (and I really have no reason to believe you or not to believe you since we can basically say anything we want online) that's terrible, but you weren't the only one. I know lots of people that were hit by the housing crash. Those that were, actually bought homes they weren't financially capable of buying. I know the market hurt home values, but they did rebound. 401Ks did take a hit. But they rebounded.
Mine didn't rebound until a couple of years ago. But you miss the point... The whole design of the GOP is to bring up this Gun God and Gays bullshit to keep stupid white working class people voting against their own economic interests, and I did it for years, to be honest.
I would LOVE to say I turned on Bush after he lied us into Iraq, or let all those poor people drown in NOLA. But, nope, I had to wait until his criminal incompetence hit me personally. Shame on me.
Don't limit ineptitude to one side of the political isle. I know you're smart than that.
What I know is the worst thing we had to worry about during Clinton's term was that he lied about a blow job. The worst thing we had to worry about during Obama's time was he really born here. (He was). Bush's father was a disaster, Bush was a disaster. Trump was a disaster. Although Trump wasn't a disaster for me personally, because I knew he was going to **** things up did all my planning accordingly.
I didn't care that Obama got elected. Yes "the crazies" said all kinds of shit, birth certificates, anti-christ, you name it. But after 8 years, most everyone could say that there day to day lives were barely changed. The same could be said about Trump's term, and the same will be said about Biden's term.
Oh, I think the million people who died from Trump Plague or the 65 million who lost their jobs during Trump Recession or the thousands of people who lost their businesses during Trump REcession and Trump Riots would say Trump did have an effect on their lives.
But not everyone who is financially conservative and leans on the constitution is "crazy". Stop throwing the baby out with the bath water. I like to believe that I am very middle. Financially and economically conservative. But I understand that capitalism does have its vices. But it is still the only economic mechanism that allows an individual the ability to wake up everyday and if they don't like their situation, they can do something about it. Personal freedom and choice. Limited Gov't. Limits on taxation
OH, I think it's a case of the inmates taking over the asylum.
The "Fiscally conservative" are those who think that the government should favor the investor class over the working class. But the working class would never vote for that. Even Republicans realized that up until Ronnie Ray-gun. Then they realized that if you play on the racial, religious and sexual fears of white people, they will go along with any other shit.
"Hey, my job is going to China!"
"Never mind that, some Tranny is reading a story to your kid!!!"
I believe that the LGBTQ community should have equal human rights to love whom they wish and marry as they wish. But I think they are taking their identity agenda too far and are turning into another form of lynching anyone that doesn't agree with them. I don't agree how they are attempting to refine biological science.
And this is the kind of crazy I am talking about. The sad thing is, Fox News and Hate Radio have you thinking this is true.
I could go on and on where there is an absolute middle ground where reasonable and intellectual discourse can happen. But too many (and Joe i don't want to put you in the same box but you kind of put yourself in it) will aline with parties lines regardless of the logical outcomes when you know what is the better course.
Oh, there are a bunch of things the Democrats are for that I'm largely indifferent to, but they often tend to be the things that they use to get people on the right to keep voting for more plutocracy.