re: #108 Big Beautiful Door

My theory is it kind of comes with their success. Over the last few decades they have had so much success redistributing wealth to the 1%, that to keep pushing it even further, as their donors demand, they have to go to greater extremes to keep their base angry and scared enough to keep voting for more tax cuts for the rich and lower incomes for everyone else, to the point that they are now basically fascists. They can’t admit that a civilized country needs an equitable healthcare system or breathable air or that corporations have obligations that go beyond maximizing their share price in the next quarterly report, because that would mean their donors would have to fork over some dough to help make those things happen.

I tweeted yesterday that the 1% now wants more than tax breaks. They want the government to pay them money (with tax rebates and deductions), so they can become even richer than before. And the present administration is essentially stealing from the US Treasury to line their own pockets.