Monday, April 29, 2024

MAGA folk and freedom

 Polls indicate that Trump has wide support among his voters, some 40% of the vote. He had that support at least three years as president. Why? He didn't do much for MAGA people, or anyone rgular. Only for the rich. And Putin.

Well, the answer is freedom. Maga folk do not want the government to do anything. In fact the federal government should just print money and keep a military. And maybe that FAA. It should be safe to fly. But all other regulation slows down enterprize. Since there is no global warming and even other parts like the EPA do not really "do" anything, leave it all to the states.

There is a problem then with patents and innovation. But MAGA folk have no sympathy for the drug industry for instance. Make cheaper drugs!

They have no idea a drug company would not invest tens of millions in a cancer drug (they pay for all the hospital studies, for example) unless they could patent it and charge you a $500 000 a year. Or your insurance company. Which is...mostly...regulated too. By Obamacare law. You can no longer sell an insurance policy that covers nothing and denies every claim.

So this freedom element is something that is still floating around and affecting polls. Ever since Reagan planted the seed to hate governmnet as the meddling "regulation" we did not need. MAGA folk may not have voted at all before. Or answered polls. Now they can support Trump by 6% over Biden. Trump who never built a wall and bever kept back illegals. If he had, there would be no platform to run on. Abortion is gone, can't run on that anymore.



Other aspects of Trump the president were viewed in the same simplifying way. Trump was a better leader in the world! Why? Because he simply told other leaders what to do. Pay us for NATO! They did not*, but it is simply this attitude they want to hear. Make them foreigners suffer! We are not their piggy bank.

* NATO is not a fund. We do give arms to nations, but mostly non NATO countries.

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Think Like an Evangelical

Fetuses are babies. Those Democrats just do not know how to take responsibility for their actions. You can have 7 babies and still have a career on the Supreme Court. What is your problem?


You can just leave the baby at a fire station!

The problem...getting back to politics...is that abortion is pretty much removing anything from the uterus. The fetus could be dead and the woman has to carry it 9 months as things currently stand.

Perhaps just being on the Supreme Court and a mom did not prepare them for all pregnancy situations? Maybe a pregnant woman a doctor could better decide these things? Too late. The Supreme Court decided. States, and maybe Congress?...can better decide this for you.