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Dems Don't Really Care About Tariffs. They just want their utopia back.
Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone ^ | 4 Apr, 2025 | Sasha Stone

Posted on 04/06/2025 5:55:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber

When COVID happened, I was still a devout Democrat. I did notice that it seemed like we were all working hard to sabotage Trump rather than come together as a country to help him deal with a once-in-a-generation pandemic.

That would be the first tiny crack in the surface of my bubble. I wondered why our hatred of Trump was more important than dealing with this once-in-a-generation crisis. It was verboten to think such a thing.

What I learned then is that they are all about clinging to power. They want their Woketopia back, and they’re willing to go to extreme lengths to get it, even to crash the economy and put us in not just a recession but a depression.

Stupid me. I took them seriously. When my daughter came home from the last few months of her senior year at college and had her graduation on my balcony in Burbank, we were doing our part to save the country from a pandemic! Then, days later, millions hit the streets to protest.

Once the crack is big enough, the light gets in. When the light gets in, you start to see things you never saw before. I did not understand what I saw until after the election when they dragged Joe Biden over the finish line, and then it all made sense.

The sudden shift away from masks and to masks, then the hysteria over lockdowns and eventually forcing people to be vaccinated or they could not work, attend family gatherings, etc. So many went along with it —mass formation psychosis.

But much of it was calculated, as I would later find out. It had to be bad—so bad that they could convince America that if only they were back in power, we would all feel safe. Keep us sick, keep us locked down, keep us medicated, keep us living in our comfortable little bubble.

Trump’s biggest asset heading into 2020 was his strong economy. No president with a strong economy has ever been voted out after one term, so to get him out, they had to crash the economy—put it in a temporary coma.

For the Democrats and the establishment, though, that risk did not pay off because it never came roaring back with Biden in power. Trump’s risk now is that he was voted in largely to do what Biden couldn’t: to bring the economy back.

But here’s what I know that I would never have known if I had never escaped the Left: they will not allow Trump’s plan ever to work. They will do everything they can now, even help crash the economy to keep us sick, helpless, and afraid, always. Because that’s the only way they can make the public want them instead.

Think about it. They’re licking their chops. If the whole thing comes crashing down, the Democrats will finally have their FDR moment, so why wouldn’t they keep filling up the deck with water to ensure the ship goes down?

There is something ugly and cynical about what they’re doing now. They know as well as I do that many of us have always wanted to bring back “made in America.” We long for the days when tech support was for people who didn’t live in far-off lands and there was some way to navigate a consumer complaint.

They know what happened to the middle and working classes in America. They know that cheap crap sold ends up in landfills. They know that slave labor makes these products. They KNOW. And yet, here they are, fighting to preserve what they always stood against.

All it took was for Trump to win and do what they’ve always wanted but never had the guts to do. They know it. And now, they have to lie to themselves and pretend they never did.

Their dream for the future is identity-focused politics - an open border to allow for more slave labor to pick vegetables and clean houses. Bigger government to pay for people who will never be able to work at any job ever because there are no jobs for them and wealthy billionaires footing the bill. That’s it. That’s the plan.

Americans are a consumer planet. Our entire ideology is based on pursuing happiness, which means buying, buying, and buying more. We measure our economic health by how much we buy during Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Trump figures, why isn’t more of that wealth coming back to us? Why is it going to so many other countries? Why? It works better for really rich people (cheap labor) and poor people (cheap stuff). But it has cost us dearly as a country.

I don’t know if the Republicans are corrupt enough to crash the economy just to bring down the Democrats. But I do know that if the Democrats did what Trump was doing now, the headlines would be awash in glowing praise. We know all the Bernie bro types would be celebrating.

This is not complicated for me because Trump is doing what I wish other politicians had the guts to do long ago. I have no idea what the outcome will be. I expect no one will allow it to succeed. There are too many very rich people who don’t want the money train to stop.

I also know that the Democrats and many Never-Trump Republicans will be rooting for his failure, rooting for the downfall of America. Again.

So even if this puts the Democrats back in power and they have to undo everything Trump tried to do to give America a fighting chance for all of its citizens, not just the rich, he’s going down as a hero in my book.

For those who say there is nothing he could ever do to lose the support of people like me - of course, there is. But this ain’t it.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: deepstate; doge; itsthemarxismstupid; leftism; usaid; walkaway

1 posted on 04/06/2025 5:55:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I agree that the democRATs would crash the economy just to harm Trump. It is a good thing that most of them are just evil imbeciles.


2 posted on 04/06/2025 5:55:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
(What I learned then is that they are all about clinging to power)

YEP. GLOBALISTS are of the same spirit.

safe AND effective

COVID-19(84) - GLOBAL 🌍🌎🌏 EVIL

A WORLDWIDE 🌎🌏🌍 DECEPTION, too

Dry run? Lotsa parallels

Seems like many governments follow Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum


3 posted on 04/06/2025 5:59:39 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

Trump is making it harder and harder for the Left to accomplish what they want to do.

He is cutting funding to the Left.

Without the USAID they are losing many billions of dollars in funding.

They can not control the Narrative with Leftist media any longer.

I do not think they have the power to crash the economy any more.


4 posted on 04/06/2025 6:02:34 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: MtnClimber
Their dream for the future is identity-focused politics - an open border to allow for more slave labor to pick vegetables and clean houses. Bigger government to pay for people who will never be able to work at any job ever because there are no jobs for them and wealthy billionaires footing the bill. That’s it. That’s the plan.

Well put. A servant class below them, a rich sugar daddy above them paying for it, and them comfortably in the middle, supported and served, and not working for much of any of it.

5 posted on 04/06/2025 6:05:40 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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'Tariffs' is the issue they will hyperventilate about until something ELSE comes along to get them more attention
6 posted on 04/06/2025 6:07:39 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: marktwain

I’m hoping so.


7 posted on 04/06/2025 6:11:59 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber

Its all about power and control over all our lives. Rule us, demand of us, tax us, stomp our rights into the ground, take our guns, control, control, control, we the surfs.


8 posted on 04/06/2025 6:14:44 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible speaks truth! Don't believe it, you do so at your own peril. You'd better be right!!)
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To: MtnClimber

Bflr


9 posted on 04/06/2025 6:15:12 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber

“Hands Off” is all about MONEY. STEALING OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. We MAGAs need to have our own, KISS THIS!, parade across the nation. Well, we may have to wait until the dollar stores restock the cardboard signs and crayons. Did you notice how many “Hands Offers” were wearing oxygen machines? A lot of them have one foot in the grave already.


10 posted on 04/06/2025 6:32:13 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (First covid case confirmed in America. 01/19/2021. Biden inaugurated 01/20/2021. Coinkydink?)
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To: MtnClimber
Hollywood Reporter did a hit piece on her. Most amusing, especially as one looks at the construction of the slurs -- plural.

How an Oscar Blogger Became a MAGA Darling Hollywood Reporter, 14 August 2024

The Democrat, privileged elite is squirming a lot these days.

11 posted on 04/06/2025 6:49:08 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Well they would but Trump is shutting off the spigots like USAID. Without the giant slush funds the Democrats have no power. Lawfare is all they have left.


12 posted on 04/06/2025 7:01:09 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MtnClimber

Naaah, like all democrats since Roosevelt2 all they care about is a bag of dosh or a scam to skim.


13 posted on 04/06/2025 7:02:28 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: MtnClimber

Tariffs if used equally creates an end to them aka fair trade panic isn’t an answer it’s a derailment of balanced trade and that’s what the never Trumpers are betting on and we get the shaft if they succeed.


14 posted on 04/06/2025 7:04:08 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MtnClimber

Absolutely, of course they would. All that matters to them is power and money, with little difference among R’s - look who still wants increased spending?


15 posted on 04/06/2025 7:15:08 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: RetiredArmy
Its all about power and control over all our lives. Rule us, demand of us, tax us, stomp our rights into the ground, take our guns, control, control, control, we the surfs.

Until we get conquered by the Muslims. That part I don't understand.

16 posted on 04/06/2025 7:17:36 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: marktwain

I’m not so sure.

For the short term, there’s still existing funds, they will direct all of what is left toward crashing the economy. Then there’s the rest of the world. There’s clearly a campaign, at least across Europe, to scare everyone away from visiting the USA (tank the tourism). They’re hearing endless stories of the ‘fascism’ being imposed onto tourists....being locked up for weeks for no good reason - with many comments from people saying they’ve cancelled trips or decided to go elsewhere. The propaganda is at full volume...’Trump is a Nazi’.

There’s a dozen ways to hurt us...and it’ll be all the global forces too.


17 posted on 04/06/2025 7:21:32 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: MtnClimber

Utopia for the Dems is taking people’s money and being in charge of running unproven social programs. All the while gaming the system to enrich themselves .. oh, and pretend to care about the well being of the people who vote them into office. Ugly scum.


18 posted on 04/06/2025 8:51:35 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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To: MtnClimber
I agree that the democRATs would crash the economy just to harm Trump. It is a good thing that most of them are just evil imbeciles.

The Obama administration was making total economic war on America before Trump.

Trump provoked them into hysteria because he threatened their criminal enterprise like no other Republican.

19 posted on 04/06/2025 9:25:53 AM PDT by Salman (Lasu Eŭropon bruli!)
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To: MtnClimber

They’ve wanted that since April 9th 1865.


20 posted on 04/06/2025 11:39:32 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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