OrangeTsar: "Read again. I did not say Trump himself supports American values. But he sure as heck supports a lot ofAmericans who HAVE those values. I despise Trump as a person but I also despised everyone running against him. I will at least pick the despicable person who will do me the least harm. And I am sorry, Marxist socialism and identity politics are NOT in my best interest... Let me try a Trump/Democrat analogy. Trump is like a Copperhead. The Democrats are like King Cobras. I despise Copperheads as well as King Cobras. But every 4 years, I have to pick one of the two snakes to bite me. Call me crazy but I will get bit by the Copperhead, because I will probably survive. You can finish the analogy in your own mind now."
I won't call you crazy, but I will call you out for aligning the Democratic Party with Marxist socialism. First allow me to emphasize that there are many things about the Democratic Party which seriously go against me. I am not here to toot their horn. But I am here saying that my take on the two parties differs from yours by viewing today's Republican Party as worse by far. Knock, knock, January 6. Hello?
Government intervention in our economy is an issue that goes back to differences between Jefferson and Hamilton in George Washington's first administration. Hamilton prevailed, and our founding fathers' first Constitutional government set about to promote the American economy by supporting the growth of industry and development of modern financial institutions. That is our history, and it is not Marxism. Government support for economic infrastructure came to be called The American System. We needed highways, railroads, etc., so the government supported them. We needed a modern banking system which functioned better than boom and bust organs of wild cat speculation. So we created it. Our government did what needed doing to get needed jobs done. That is our history, and it is not Marxism. If you want to talk about real Marxists or "former Marxists" in our government, then top of your list should be numerous Neoconservatives in the Republican Party. If you think that the Democratic Party represents Marxism, then you must not know the true meaning of that word. You are hearing it and using it recklessly and falsely.