I'm not going because I'm still not convinced this is going to be anything but a big Trump rally. I'm not going down there to participate in a black-pill fest, either.
I'm building up my wealth for as long as possible until we get rocked through a depression and sent exploding through runaway inflation. I'm in a bit of a precarious situation as it is, so I'm not risking anything until I see real commitment from the right wing populists.
Does the right never learn from the past? Does the right just blindly assume that they can wage a cultural war on the center and the left, while still using their facilities?
Most of the right are normies and even non-threatening Christians. They don't understand that they committed to a revolution by accident. I don't blame them for being confused, but someone's gotta teach them some awareness.
I don't think so. I'm certainly somewhere "on the right", but I wouldn't consider myself a populist. I'm too unpopular and won't cater to most Trump-Left policies or Right-Authoritarian policies. I'm not going to support protectionism, and protectionism always has some amount of popular support.
My complaint is that I'd go a lot further in tearing apart the government's regulatory system as it stands because most of those jobs were intentionally disincentive from working in the US, and government agents were actively supporting Chinese interests. Trump did engage in protectionism, but the real damage he did to China came from not supporting them so thoroughly.
Again, the government system incentivized China taking all available manufacturing jobs. Trump disincentivized it. My argument would be be break the restrictions and regulations that form protectoinism within the US so that there would be a larger profit incentive for manufacturing to function in the US. Incentivizing China intentionally and immediately kills manufacturing in America. Disincentivizing China only hurts manufacturing in the long run. The correct answer is to incentivize manufacturing in the US by allowing it to function in a free market where the government doesn't take their shit.
It's kinda like this argument about the stimulus checks. The Democrats want to strengthen the lockdown and give out a pittance of people's money back. Trump wants to give more of people's money back. I want to end the lock down and stop stealing people's money. To me, that's way better than taking their money and giving some of it back to them... but it starts out with me saying "I'm not giving you any money".
Which, if you think about it, is exactly how the Dems hit Trump on his tax cut. The Dems screamed that Trump had caused people's Tax returns to either not go up, or even go down. Yes: because he withheld less of their income from them. Some voters got confused because their return went down, but they kept $50 more with every paycheck. Their feedback mechanism was being intentionally confused by the state. That's why I object to Tax Returns altogether. If you had to pay the feds all of your taxes, all at once, on April 15th, you'd be screaming "taxation is theft!" too. You would sit there and think: "I'm not paying Barack Obama $10,000!"
I'm not going because I'm still not convinced this is going to be anything but a big Trump rally. I'm not going down there to participate in a black-pill fest, either.
I'm building up my wealth for as long as possible until we get rocked through a depression and sent exploding through runaway inflation. I'm in a bit of a precarious situation as it is, so I'm not risking anything until I see real commitment from the right wing populists.
Most of the right are normies and even non-threatening Christians. They don't understand that they committed to a revolution by accident. I don't blame them for being confused, but someone's gotta teach them some awareness.
Do you consider yourself a right wing populist? If so, you're proving yourself correct.
I don't think so. I'm certainly somewhere "on the right", but I wouldn't consider myself a populist. I'm too unpopular and won't cater to most Trump-Left policies or Right-Authoritarian policies. I'm not going to support protectionism, and protectionism always has some amount of popular support.
Would it be protectionism for America to bring American jobs back to America and way from China?
Yes.
Again, that's why I'm not a populist.
My complaint is that I'd go a lot further in tearing apart the government's regulatory system as it stands because most of those jobs were intentionally disincentive from working in the US, and government agents were actively supporting Chinese interests. Trump did engage in protectionism, but the real damage he did to China came from not supporting them so thoroughly.
Again, the government system incentivized China taking all available manufacturing jobs. Trump disincentivized it. My argument would be be break the restrictions and regulations that form protectoinism within the US so that there would be a larger profit incentive for manufacturing to function in the US. Incentivizing China intentionally and immediately kills manufacturing in America. Disincentivizing China only hurts manufacturing in the long run. The correct answer is to incentivize manufacturing in the US by allowing it to function in a free market where the government doesn't take their shit.
It's kinda like this argument about the stimulus checks. The Democrats want to strengthen the lockdown and give out a pittance of people's money back. Trump wants to give more of people's money back. I want to end the lock down and stop stealing people's money. To me, that's way better than taking their money and giving some of it back to them... but it starts out with me saying "I'm not giving you any money".
Which, if you think about it, is exactly how the Dems hit Trump on his tax cut. The Dems screamed that Trump had caused people's Tax returns to either not go up, or even go down. Yes: because he withheld less of their income from them. Some voters got confused because their return went down, but they kept $50 more with every paycheck. Their feedback mechanism was being intentionally confused by the state. That's why I object to Tax Returns altogether. If you had to pay the feds all of your taxes, all at once, on April 15th, you'd be screaming "taxation is theft!" too. You would sit there and think: "I'm not paying Barack Obama $10,000!"
I'm not a populist, because I think you need negative feedback. Protectionism intentionally stops negative feedback, even if you really should have it. It's like being unable to feel pain. If you can't feel pain, you might not realize when you've been set on fire.