What do you think will become of the USA when leftist regain full control?

Not much. Just more of the same.

 

It was not naivety that sparked the question. Rather just the recognition that conservatives like to pretend that liberals are different than they really are.

 

That does not change the facts nor the dynamics of what occurred in Venezuela.

"Some" liberals are more similar to conservatives than other liberals.
But conservative ideology has a foundation in Christianity....not so with most liberals.

 

The Leftists never had full control and never will. If they do, or if the Rightists have full control, then the US will cease to be the nation our Founders desired.

 

Their idea of government is still make more laws. Even though not needed. Why? With laws comes punishment and Democrats love dishing out punishment. Recall they get hot under the collar if we remove any law.

They really were angry over Glass Steagal but I kept reminding them it was Bill Clinton that did that.

Everybody fearing the Democrats have every right to fear them.

Taxes will sky rocket if they return.

Since 1933, most do not seem to understand this, but the democrats may not have all the presidencies, but they have dominated the congress. And when confronted, they commence lying.

 

Peer pressure does work, but I highly doubt young voters aren't choosing to vote Republican because they have policies that are working economically for young voters. If young people were experiencing a shared prosperity through Republican policies, then Republican policies would be as popular as anything from the "cool and hip" side, but they aren't. If the tax cut had helped young voters in the same magnitude as it did for corporations, they would feel differently about it.

Take a look at the activism from the Parkland Florida kids. That has nothing to do with being cool. It has to do with the fact that 90% of Americans want universal background checks so that mentally unstable 18 year olds can't easily get a gun and murder innocent kids in their classrooms. Congress knows how 90% of Americans feel and have chosen not to act. How do you get a recalcitrant Congress to act? You replace them with someone that isn't recalcitrant.

The same thing is true about students leaving college with huge loans, and Congress failing to take any action. Never before have we had a generation in such deep debt, and it isn't sustainable. Because these young voters have such large debt, our birth rate is declining and they can't afford to purchase housing, keeping them from the very middle class lifestyle they attended college classes to achieve. Because they are educated, they know coal mining and manufacturing jobs are not something with a future. The jobs they need are mostly found in cities... where other highly educated people have moved to get good jobs, and the politics is more progressive, by necessity.

What we have in the United States is a paradigm shift, where we are politically divided between urban and rural needs. Rural areas don't need high speed rail and cities don't need farm subsidies. Because the parties have shifted into Republican/conservative/rural versus Democratic/progressive/urban, they have little in common and no desire to compromise… and thus we have a government that satisfies few, if any. We need our cities and our countryside. Both need things from the government and should have it. What we don't need to to pit one against the other, yet that is exactly what we have.

 

JFK almost killed us all with a nuclear war. He was an idiot.

 

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IF they try and take the guns from my generation, you will have civil war. The constitution is clear, the right of the people to keep and bare arms shall not infringed. They have trashed our constitution since 1970, and that would be the final insult. Protecting our constitution and the rights it defines IS worth fighting for (and if required, dying) for my children's future and freedoms..

 

Depends on which ones take Control. If it’s Bernie and Cortez then kiss our borders and country good bye. Welcome to new Venezuela

Hey, at least they admit admiring the place and its policies.

 

Exactly as would be expected if ultimate control were handed to children. All the boring 'grown up' stuff would fall by the way side, in the pursuit of fun times and hugs.

 

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oh, you're serious

 

And it very much depends upon what one means by educated. Because a degree in Gender Studies sure as hell ain't it.

 

If its anything like how the run Illinois or California then not good.

 

a) absolutely not the case. have you any idea of just how 'fundamentalist' any liberal arts school is? those kids are doomed to culthood, the minute they sign up. OTOH, kids in STEM are not so easily seduced.

b) once again, it very much depends upon what you mean by educated. America is not likely to be improved by increasing its number of graduates in 17thC French Poetry.

 

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which is why most of them vote Democrat and why The democratically controlled tEachers unions do such a piss poor job of educating people, and why most of modern education is far mre concerned with teaching people what to think instead of how to think.

 

Too late, the clown car have already arrived at the WH.

 

And conservatives couldn't be bother to make changes. Rather they just sit there and bellyache.

 

Dude there is damn little they could do. The federal government does not run education and the teachers unions fight any sort of change like the Catholic church during the inquisition.

 

That is such a cop out. There are no reasons why they can't start their own schools with handpicked teachers. Sitting by bellyaching and not doing anything is....weak.

 

The truth is that our best teachers, colleges, and universities place great emphasis on teaching students how to think.

 

Bs been there done that. There is a reason the folks with money send there kids to private schools.

 

We have. They are called private schools. It's where people with money send there kids. Less aggravating than try to fix a system that's primarily designed to protect even it's most incompetent and occasionally dangerous practitioners rather than teach kids.

 

Ah I see. So you are only concerned for those people with....money. it's all about money then and any concerns for students in general were just ..fake outrage?

 

Nope just telling you a truth you should have figured out already. See I'm not one of the people with money, never have been, and at 70 It isn't very damn likely I ever will be, unless of course I hit the lottery but then I'd have to buy a ticket. So yeah the outrage is real but I also understand why people with money aren't investing time trying to fix a system that they don't have to deal with. Why should they? Especially when they see the crap reformers have to deal with when they do try to fix it.

 

If they're fully in charge, they'll do exactly what all totalitarian regimes do to dissidents. Hand them a shovel and give them a minute to dig their grave before being bashed over the head by that same shovel.

That's just how lefties are. History bears me out on this, from Pol Pot to Zedong to Stalin to Hitler to Castro, etc. etc. etc.

All lefties just being lefties.