“I’m not a big fan of the president, but at the end of the day, Trump is about individual freedom and so was the Dead,” says the insurance claims consultant. His take, along with that of an unknown number of Trump-supporting Deadheads, is that the Grateful Dead’s philosophy was about individual liberties and not telling people what to do.”
Yeah trump defends their freedoms alright. Freedom to spend their whole lives broke and driving around the country aimlessly in camper vans.
Of course. What I mean is his political activity works against the interests of the working class in the most fundamental way. The pitch is always ‘do your best and you can have your own business’, but this can’t be true for everyone, because if it was, there would be nobody to do the work in society. It literally can’t ever come to a democratic realization, so to speak. It is an empty promise that has had the middle class duped for centuries.
Indeed - it is what I call the American Nighmare; ever trying always failing as the only way to succeed is to exploit others. Trump knows that well. Yet what hypocracy this self styled “self made man” started with nothing- i.e. a million dollars and the backing of a wealthy family.
[-o< But Jesus loves them, and wants to kill gays, abortive mothers, and other “kooks”; one day he will come down in a shiny rocket and put it all right, and they will be vindicated.
[-o<
But everything he is angry about is stuff that neither Biden nor Trump is going to do. Except that the chance of ANY republican doing that stuff is ZERO. Trump will never offer, nor provide the things he wants.
So the solution to his problem and YOURS is not to vote Trump, but to lobby for a better version of Biden, and that would be Bernie Sanders. Prescription drug reform is an urgent need.
In the UK we pay $10 for any and every prescription; that is usually a 4 weeks’ supply.
Some get free prescriptions, under 16, over 60, unemployed.
It has not destroyed the economy. Student Debt reform. Not sure what the issue is in the US.
In the UK you only start having to repay when your salary is above average. And the rates are low. When you hit 60years of age any remaining debt is wiped.