Welcome to the club. Just after this past election, an electrician I've known for 40 years came by at my request to help solve a wiring problem. As we worked together on it, he asked if I was pleased with the election outcome. I said I was not and he replied "I thought, as a businessman, you'd be a trump supporter." I explained that character matters more than policy and that business seeks constancy (almost regardless of the specific rules), and not the chaos that trump always brings. That ended that part of the conversation, though we continued working for three hours. I did not pursue his opinion of the outcome, but I think I planted a different perspective in his mind.
Lib Caps it is . Just don't make me wear a ball cap to show it.
I'm going to have to disagree with your view that: "Both sides have long ago lost touch with reality". I would say that the exact opposite is true: both sides are staring in the face of the cold, hard reality - that money is the only route to getting elected. The problem is: getting elected is no longer the route to democracy. What do I mean by that?
A true democracy would have politicians delivering policies that the electorate voted for. But that no longer happens. The wealthy now get to decide. The Democrats are as much in the pocket of the rich as Republicans. The blindingly obvious policy that you would expect from the liberal/left - tax the rich - never happens. Because they are in hock to them.
The rich are now the real people in power - and until money is taken out of politics, that isn't going to change.
Welcome to the club. Just after this past election, an electrician I've known for 40 years came by at my request to help solve a wiring problem. As we worked together on it, he asked if I was pleased with the election outcome. I said I was not and he replied "I thought, as a businessman, you'd be a trump supporter." I explained that character matters more than policy and that business seeks constancy (almost regardless of the specific rules), and not the chaos that trump always brings. That ended that part of the conversation, though we continued working for three hours. I did not pursue his opinion of the outcome, but I think I planted a different perspective in his mind.
Lib Caps it is . Just don't make me wear a ball cap to show it.
I'm going to have to disagree with your view that: "Both sides have long ago lost touch with reality". I would say that the exact opposite is true: both sides are staring in the face of the cold, hard reality - that money is the only route to getting elected. The problem is: getting elected is no longer the route to democracy. What do I mean by that?
A true democracy would have politicians delivering policies that the electorate voted for. But that no longer happens. The wealthy now get to decide. The Democrats are as much in the pocket of the rich as Republicans. The blindingly obvious policy that you would expect from the liberal/left - tax the rich - never happens. Because they are in hock to them.
The rich are now the real people in power - and until money is taken out of politics, that isn't going to change.
I'm a pragmatist. Our society is largely run on money. That will not change. That's life right now.