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The US has had a relatively large middle class throughout most of its history. Prior to WW II, the middle class was primarily comprised of small businessmen, including successful farmers and craftsmen, and professionals. As the US economy expanded after the Civil War, an expanding group of managers and technicians joined the middle class. The expansion of the middle class to include significant numbers of unskilled and semi-skilled wage earners coincided with the implementation of wage and hour regs that were part of the New Deal and the rise of unionization of major industries after WW II that significantly raised income and provided benefits. Unfortunately, technology has shrunk the need for -- and therefore the value of --- unskilled and semi-skilled labor, which has translated into job losses and wage declines. That's been a reality since at least the early 1970s. Fewer workers produce more product, and that's not just the reality for blue collar workers but also for pink collar office workers (ie, there's no longer a typing pool). Unskilled and semi-skilled workers face a bleak future with limited job opportunities and low wages. Politicians who claim otherwise are conning their constituents. There is no "bending back the curve" because we can't turn the clock back 60 or 70 years.

Dumbass Trumpists gonna make dumbass arguments defending their hero's lies and failures.

So Katja Guenther is a nutcase. So what? So is Marjorie Taylor-Greene. At least Guenther isn't sitting in the US House of Representatives.

My point is that it's Republicans who have made -- and continue to make -- their own trouble. Huntsman isn't acceptable to most of the GOP because he's not close enough to Wacko Trumpism. Marjorie Taylor-Greene obviously is acceptable because she's a true believer in Wacko Trumpism. Right now, "moderate Republicans" -- ie, Republicans unwilling to kiss Trump's ass -- are an endangered species in the GOP. When the Republicans fix their own issues, then you can complain about the left wing of the Democratic Party not being willing to work with "moderate" Republicans.

The left wing of the Democratic Party doesn't control what the Republican Party does, so don't try to shift the blame from where it belongs. The Republicans used to have a left wing, back in the 1960s and early 1970s. Now, they all they have are Right Wingers, Far Right Wingers, Far Right Extremists, and Wacko Trumpists (ie, traitors and fascists). That's their "big tent", and the Wacko Trumpists want to purge the Right Wingers for not being "pure" enough.

Righties are desperately trying to find new topics to divert attention from the GOP's embrace of fascism and treason.

The GOP has a "far left"? Seriously? Who would be in that group?

The silence is deafening because there's nothing here. It's a private school that sets its own policies. If you don't like their philosophy, don't send your kids there.

Not all threats are equal. On a threat scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being "None", WEF is about a 1.

Small groups that meet secretly to plan illegal activities to advance their personal political or financial agendas are dangerous, not organizations that have open membership lists, that hold public meetings, sponsor conferences, etc like the World Economic Forum. Individuals, not countries, are members. The president of France and the prime minister of India can agree to something that this group wants but that doesn't mean that they can get their countries to go along with them. So, their view of the future isn't the same as some others'. So what? What actual power does the World Economic Forum have? Can this group enforce sanctions? Can it raise a military force? At best, they might, over decades, convince enough people in enough countries to accept their ideas but so what? Peoples' attitudes towards issues change all the time, and have been changing all the time since ***** sapiens developed the brain power to have attitudes. The US needs to worry about Russians hacking into our computer systems not the fact that the President of China is going to be speaking at the World Economic Forum's 2021 conference. The US needs to worry about white supremacists planning terrorist acts like kidnapping governors or attacking the US Capitol not the fact that some left wing think tank publishes its vision on how to fix climate change.

What I know is that a voluntary organization of world political, business, and economic leaders isn't some kind threat to the US. The Presidents/Prime Ministers of France, Germany, Singapore, and India and the Secretary General of the UN and the managing director of the IMF are hardly dangerous radicals. If you believe that this organization has some sinister power to control the world because of some of video you see on the Internet says so, then you are a dumbass.

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I didn't call the World Economic Forum "right wing wackos". I called you and your fellow dumbasses "right wing wackos".

I did. The OP accused the Lincoln Project of being full of full of pedos and pervs, so I pointed out that Trump has had some notable connections to pedos and pervs. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, too, dude. Not my problem the OP has nothing real/significant/timely to post about so settles for spreading manure.

Hmmm ... Trump's been accused of rape, Trump's bestie Epstein was a convicted pedophile and now one of Trump's new lawyers for the impeachment trial defended pedo/perv Bill Cosby and then sued one of Cosby's victims. It seems that Trump's the pervert who surrounds himself with pedos and their defenders.

Another day, another right wing wacko conspiracy theory.

The GOP wants Trump to use his $250-300 million slush fund to help regain Congress in 2022 ... ... that money will be long gone down some rabbit hole if it hasn't already disappeared just like all those tens of millions of 2020 campaign funds that Trump squandered.

Trump took an oath on January 20, 2017, to support and defend the US Constitution, an oath that he violated when he sicced that mob on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, with the intention of intimidating Congress into overturning the November presidential election that he lost. That makes Trump a traitor.

Beats the crap out of having a traitor in the Oval Office.

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I remember that thread. The thread starter was hilarious: a white bigot denying he's a racist and whining about "socialism" while wanting to relocate EU countries with many more social supports than the US. At the time I thought Paraguay would be a good choice but given the thread starter's liking for fascist dictators, I think Russia would be his best landing spot. Do you know anything about the American legal system? They were granted bail, fool, which means they aren't sitting in jail while they await trial. Yeah, I'm part of that "pitchforks and torches mob" who wants traitors, insurrectionists, and murderers held responsible for their crimes, unlike you and your fellow self-proclaimed "patriots" who support a would be dictator who incited mob violence in a failed coup attempt.

Anybody remember when a defeated POTUS left office without attempting to stage a coup?

What a pile of bull manure! The only people who give credence to the wet dreams, delusions and lies of white supremacists, Neo-Nazis, QANON fruitcakes, and other assorted paranoid right wing jackasses that pass for "news" on supposed "alternative media" are the dumbasses conned by self-serving politicians and wealthy swindlers like Donald Trump.

Trump apologists trying to hide the Traitor in Chief behind the very Constitution that Trump attempted to destroy is both hilarious and sad at the same time. Exactly! What Trump's second impeachment accomplished already: Fear of being convicted by the Senate prevented Trump from issuing preventive pardons to himself, his kids, his enablers, and the domestic terrorists. That's a big plus. The charges against Trump for his part in the attempted coup are part of the Congressional Record. It's there forever. The trial will provide the evidence of Trump's attempts to overturn the election through illegal means will also be in the Congressional Record forever. Whether Trump is convicted or not, he and his enablers are still liable for criminal charges, and the entire cabal may also be subject to civil suits for damages. Trump's "advisor" Sydney Powell is already facing a $ 1.3 billion civil suit from Dominion.

So, why didn't the Traitor-in-Chief dispute the election results in Louisiana as he did in Pennsylvania? After all, there were 8 cases of voter fraud found in LA but only 3 in PA.