Great, now we end up paying more for imported products just to finance a dumb wall that will do nothing. On top of this, we're risking a trade war, which would inflate prices further and hurt the economy.
Meanwhile, the Tweedledees are thinking that they're "punishing" Mexico, while actual Americans are having their money and financial stability siphoned for said dumb wall.
10/10
This is what always happens, without fail, whenever people turn to nationalism. Again and again and again. Yet, as we see, many people never ever learn anything.
Have you ever tried pointing this out to anyone on Facebook or social media? They just basically call you a brainwashed commie. Like this sh**t is legit frightening.
I've been one of those people. I was part of the alt-right back in its earlier days. I know what these people are and how they think; I also know how sick they actually are. They need a good education (which they call "indoctrination") and interacting with people from cultures outside their little bubble (and no, claiming "I live in a multicultural area" isn't truly interacting with people from other cultures).
Could you expound more on this? I'd be curious to get your opinion on what's happening with the alt-right and its takeover of the Republican Party. Okay now... I will not waste my time spending my whole day responding back and forth to this to people who desperately want to think of all Republicans as stupid, racist rubes from West Virginia to validate their own less-than-stellar daily lives, but this is hyperbole at its best. Takeover? Trump has openly disavowed the Alt-Right, and even if you count his (one) adviser who could be classified as such, I think the Republican Senate caucus (NONE of which could accurately be described as Alt-Right, especially its leadership), Republican governors (NONE of which could accurately be described as Alt-Right, especially its leadership) or the Republican House caucus (I don't know every individual member, but let's be real here: the leadership most certainly isn't even close to Alt-Right, and anyone who could be remotely classified as such would be in the tiny minority) far outnumber such people.
The only threads posted on this forum about these subjects are by red avatars with a narrative, friend. They jump all over Trump for anything that can help further their narrative of what the GOP "has become," but we never see articles talking about Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell reiterating publicly that the GOP is against torture, do we?
Much less any topics about how Madonna literally said she thinks about BLOWING UP THE WHITE HOUSE or Chelsea Handler saying she doesn't respect Melania Trump at all and wouldn't have her on her show because, "What would she talk about?! She can barely speak English."
