What Happened to America?

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#151
05_never_again said:
Survey/public opinion polls do bear out that trust in institutions was much higher in the 60s and 70s (and likely before that too) and began to decline in the 70s. I do agree with that. However, politics has always been an "us vs. them" game. If you think that anti-immigrant fervor, for example, is really high today, look at immigration to the United States in the early 20th Century. That was a gigantic backlash against legal immigration.

Perhaps it's because I was born and raised in this era of lower trust in institutions, but I don't see more skepticism of institutions as necessarily a bad thing. It seems like the greater trust people had in government, the media, big business, etc. in the past was misplaced - it isn't as if those entities were more moral 50 years ago than they are today...people just trusted them more and now they don't. I don't think it's a bad thing to look at large, powerful institutions and have the stance that you'll trust them after they've done something to earn your trust.
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Agree, it's a weird dichotomy where people are both much more smarter and much more dumber than they used to be
 
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#153
Rickyvol77 said:
Agree, it's a weird dichotomy where people are both much more smarter and much more dumber than they used to be
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They're way more educated than they used to be...not necessarily smarter. They have more facts and information crammed in their heads than they used to and have easier and quicker access to information than they used to. Doesn't mean they are more intelligent.
 
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05_never_again said:
Casinos aren't much of a license for printing money if nobody goes through the door. Trump's screw up on that deal wasn't in how he ran the casinos; it was putting them in Atlantic City.

AC has always been something of a more dingy, more cheesy Las Vegas and when other nearby states started legalizing gambling nobody wanted to go to AC anymore. A ton of casinos there, not just Trump's, closed and filed bankruptcy.
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Tell that to the owner of the Borgata, which opened after Trump's fiasco and seems to be doing quite well.
 
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Purple Tiger said:
Tell that to the owner of the Borgata, which opened after Trump's fiasco and seems to be doing quite well.
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There are always exceptions to the rule. AC overall is a shell of itself and tons of casinos have gone belly up there, not just Trump's.

Again, if you want to go after his record as a businessman, just compare his ROI since he got involved in the real estate game to the S&P or to one of any number of real estate/REIT benchmarks. He's an underperformer. He's made money, yes, but less than what a passive strategy or his real estate peers have returned on average.

Donald has always been a far better licenser, promoter, and marketer than businessman or investor.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Especially since when GWB was in office, the left was all "he is an evil, racist, sexist, man who hates black people and wants elderly people to die"
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Exactly right, and don't forget he was also a nazi. McCain and Romney were all called the same stuff but now they are worshiped by the far left. The next R President will also be racist, sexist, homophobic, nazi, Hitler etc..
 
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volfanjustin said:
Exactly right, and don't forget he was also a nazi. McCain and Romney were all called the same stuff but now they are worshiped by the far left. The next R President will also be racist, sexist, homophobic, nazi, Hitler etc..
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IT's the only playbook the Democrats have... sow and exploit every division (black vs white, illegal vs American, gay vs straight, religious vs atheist, police vs criminal, women vs men, rich vs poor, rural vs urban, adult vs child, state vs state, etc) and then pick a side and stoke jealous, distrust and bitterness and claim they are "discriminated and kept down because of xyz, but if you elect us we can force them to share with you and respect you" and then nothing changes....rinse, wash, same
 
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Purple Tiger said:
Stop being obtuse. Trump is CEO of his companies and has declared bankruptcy in that role. Trump is so inept he lost money in the casino business, which is basically a license for printing money. It takes a special kind of stupid to do that.

If you look at where Buffet and Trump started and where each is today, it's easy to say that the former is a fanstastic businessman and the latter - well, not so much.
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You know what Henry Ford, Hershey, Walt Disney, and Heinz all have in common? Bankruptcy.
 
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#175
The scary thing is that full blown socialism/communisim is in our future and that will end America.

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