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OT: American Politics

Aberdeen said:
I've heard it said that life for our parents was cheap (housing, energy, basics) and luxuries were expensive (technology, novel experiences, exotic foods etc) and now that has reversed, life is expensive, 'luxuries' are cheap (relatively speaking). And I think generally that's true. Prices of phones matter, but I wish there was way more focus on regular cost of living stuff. It's really the core problem of our time.
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Income has been distributed upwards, that’s issue #1 to resolve.

Housing is a problem in the US and Canada.

Health care and post-secondary costs in the US are criminal. That’s their exceptionalism.
 
I dont know why all these economists and financial talking heads even bother trying to find reasons for what Trump is doing with these tariffs. There is no economic reasoning behind it. It's purely political and it is all about forcing corporations to bend the knee and allow him to have dictatorial power.

I read last week that a bunch of corporate CEO's were planning to go to the White House to "talk sense" to Trump. That's bullshit. Corporate mucky mucks only care about one thing: THEIR money. In other words, they don't give a shit if all their competitors get put out of business by Trump so long as their business gets an exemption. That's why they're going. Not to teach Trump a lesson about free market economics, but to bend the knee and beg to be spared.

And Trump will be only too happy to oblige them, for a price. And that price will be for them to support his dictatorship and help him enforce it. And they will gladly do just that because at the end of the day they're all at least semi-fascist. They are also 100% focused on self interest. They don't care if working class Americans become slaves and democracy dies under a hobnailed boot just as long as they personally get to stay rich.

That is the endgame for all of this. Fascist dictatorship.
 
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