I often wonder how these scam telephone solicitors sleep at night.
They are not offering a worthwhile good or service and they know that. Yet, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, they strap on a headset and try to trick people into parting with their hard-earned money.
If you’re like me, you get repeated calls from these people; an unnecessary annoyance that never is going to be quelled by do-not-call lists. Those lists are, by definition, only effective when the company is reputable, sort of like how stringent gun legislation only tends to restrict the law-abiding while giving criminals free rein
To repeat, the telephone scammers are pitching garbage and they know it. They do not have plausible deniability. They are fully aware that they are crooks and charlatans, and yet they keep doing it, seemingly without remorse
Along a similar line, how can working class people, the traditional bedrock of the Democratic Party, continue to support what their party has become; this current amalgamation of elitists, fringe crazies and outright socialists whose wet dream is to destroy the U.S. morally and economically?
Democrats these days profess to be trying to protect democracy. How do they propose to do that?
By trying to get Donald Trump barred from appearing on ballots for the fall’s presidential election.
By having many of their deep-pocketed donors, people who have made money in capitalism and now profess to abhor it, funding pathetic Trump Republican challengers such as Nikki (Nimarata Randhawa) Haley
By crossing party lines in primaries to vote for Trump opposition.
By lining up like sheep to support cadaver Joe Biden, yet having the temerity to suggest Trump is losing his mental faculties due to age.
By projecting all their obvious failings – lying, cheating, stealing, for example – onto their opponents.
By acting like things are great, both domestically and internationally, and only would get better with four more years of Biden.
By going with the obviously insane supposition that cackling VP Kamala Harris is up to the challenge of taking over in the likely event Biden can’t make it through this term, or another.
By screaming Russia, Russia, Russia, insurrection, insurrection, insurrection, but being perfectly OK with the Biden family’s foreign entanglements, not to mention the foibles of minor league artist Hunter.
The Republican hierarchy isn’t much better. Perhaps you have read how Arizona’s state GOP chair has resigned after Trump ally Kari Lake came forth with recordings of how the guy tried to bribe her to stay out of politics for two years because “there are very powerful people who want to keep you out.”
Lake went public and the chairman left the scene. Why do “powerful people” want Lake out of the spotlight? Perhaps because, like Trump, she calls it as she sees it and that doesn’t make the elitists on either side comfortable.
This is one of the things about Trump that appeals to me, how he takes on Republican and Democratic elites with equal gusto and because of that is disliked by both in a large measure.
His 2016 win was arguably the greatest victory in U.S. politics because he beat his own party as well as the opposition. If Trump can repeat that in 2024, it would be an even greater shocker.
Trump was, and is, right about the Washington Swamp, a mishmash of bipartisan types and unelected bureaucrats sharing power and putting it to the American populace along the way.
There are good Republicans, likely a larger percentage than good Democrats, but there are far too many bad apples in each barrel.
And you are right to wonder how these disingenuous types — in both parties — sleep at night knowing what they are.
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