• Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I’m not what one would call an economist and in fact confusingly look down on several aspects of the very concept, and I am not saying this because I favor one side of politics in any way, but one completely objective observation I can attest to is how basic supermarket food as well as fast food cost less when a fiscal Republican is in power, to the point where I wonder how many Democratic voters are the ones wearing the pants in the household (not judging those of us who don’t wear the pants). For this reason, for the same reason I appreciate the Democrats trying to remove the burden of buying food completely, I cannot give them the credit for actually doing it.

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      2 months ago

      Well I’m not wearing pants, but that’s because I work from home and only have to look dressed in Zoom!

      I have to say that I consider moving hard left over my adult life to be maturation. When I was younger, I did believe that Republicans were fiscally conservative, I did believe they cared anbout family values, I did believe their claims about small government and trickle down . But over time I realized they really weren’t anny of those and I was just getting trickled upon. Over time, their claims have been getting farther from the truth, and their policies more spiteful and mean, more harmful. Most importantly I focus on building a better future, yet Republican policies tend to rob the future to enrich someone now. Republican policies make life harder on most people in order to ease the lives of wealthy. Republican ideas of family and family values differ from any Christian ideal I’m familiar with, and really aren’t connected to reality