@skeeter There are a handful of (more so than anyone) "principled conservatives" who have insisted for four years that the deficit is the only issue that matters; until this is fixed there is no hope. Any other issue always returned to the deficit as our problem.
For them, President Trump was a "northeast liberal" because of his spending. No grace was given for cause or effect.
Yet the conservative icon, Ronald Reagan, is the President who blew the lid off the deficit ... but somehow this only makes him more conservative in the eyes of the "principled". I'm not looking to slam Reagan, I'm asking for help reconciling this contradictory position.
Those people can't be educated. They want to look at the world through a single color lens, a lens made of black-painted lead that lets no light, not even x-rays, through (they're not Superman), so they in effect don't see a damn thing at all.
The deficit is a SYMPTOM of the real problem, not a cause.
The deficit will not be eliminated and the national debt reduced until the causes of the problem are addressed and repaired.
The cause of the problem is socialism and all the drooling morons chasing the free crap the grifters promise to get votes.
Socialism is a terminal disease that has never been cured once it's infected a nation, not in the 2500 years since it's invention in China.
France went socialist after the French Revolution. A lot of Frenhies fried, but France never again won a war.
Germany went socialist, national socialist and communist socialist all at the same time. It's still broken.
Russia when communist socialist, was liberated by Reagan, then went Putin-socialist and is still an economic midget.
China turned to socialism again after it didn't win the war with Japan, and it's still dying inside. Trust me, the collapse of the USA from America's socialist infection will destroy China.
Canada is socialist. Nobody wants their major export, Justin Bieber.
Cuba is socialist. They have the best health care system in the world. That's why people flee to America to go to the doctor.
Nobody can name a socialist country that prospered.
Nobody can explain why so many drooling idiots claim this is not true, but can't name the country that proves the statement false.
Anyway, America did the impossible thing in the first place and created a stable government by democratic means. Maybe America can do the impossible and ethnically cleanse itself of the socialist infestation and resume it's former glory. Lighting usually likes to strike the same place more than once.
