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WowStrongWinning 3 points ago +3 / -0

Your argument is conflating two different topics and doesn’t tie cohesively together. We can’t give an answer when the argument itself doesn’t make sense. Try reformulating your argument, and I’m sure you’ll get an honest and educated response.

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Geroz 1 point ago +2 / -1

Apologies, I'll attempt to make myself clear.

What I feel and see around here is allot of people arguing against things like 'the rich getting richer' and 'government only supporting big companies'.

But then I think the right wing republicans (I believe that includes Trump ?) are exactly those people that make these decisions (making the rich richer and only supporting big companies).

So what I feel is that people here are against the actions of the people they support. And I have a hard time understanding that contradiction.

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WowStrongWinning 2 points ago +2 / -0

I wouldn’t classify Trump as ideologically “republican” though, anymore than I would classify Sanders as a “democrat”. Yes, both are in those particular parties, but it’s solely because neither of them would gain the recognition and platform needed to run a national campaign.

I think there may be a fundamental misunderstanding on how American government works. The individual states have a tremendous amount of sovereignty, and therefore are in control of things such as how intrastate business operations work. The federal government on the other hand has control on businesses that cross state lines (interstate commerce). Trump and his administration has not (to my knowledge) labeled any business essential/non-essential, and left that discretion up to the individual state governors. Which is the correct choice I believe due to the 10th amendment (states rights). Now both, Republican and Democrat governors operated tyrannically by picking which businesses are essential/non-essential and being allowed to open. This wasn’t a Trump issue, this is an individual state issue.

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Geroz 1 point ago +2 / -1

Ah I see, Do you have elections for your state politicians as well then ? Cause I feel those seem to matter more for your day to day lives ?