specifically blamed his administration

Discretion noted.

The reason I don’t care if they come here is because, bluntly, I feel like we owe them.

Every person in America is guilty of what some bureaucrats in secret bunkers decided without their knowledge or consent. Really? I understand the feeling. Before 2016, I actually shared it. Because I didn't understand the implications either.

That perspective is ultimately self-destructive. The American Deep State has much to answer for. But rebuilding the world is not something that we can do if America is destroyed. We're the last bastion of Western Civilization. If Europe falls to the invasion of Islam, Russia and the US are all you've got. Yes, horrifying things were done in our name. It doesn't mean we should cut off our nose to spite our face. Getting the people to hate themselves own people and their own country is one of the most diabolical things ever accomplished by these people. God does not punish the innocent along with the guilty.

You and I did not do the things that are evil. But it is our duty to make sure that those that do are repaid in full for their crimes.

JFK stated that he wished to "dismantle the CIA and scatter it to the winds." We all see what that led to. He was assassinated and those CIA agents gradually decided to coopt and corrupt the presidency for their own ends such as with Bush Sr. The road forward must be plotted carefully. We need the right people to move forward with the right plan of action. This is already underway. Like it or not, that's what those of us that chose Trump are invested in. If he fails to deliver that justice then it's on him.

So, even though you may think that the Guatemalans and Salvadorians deserve to benefit now, damn the consequences, you need to realize that far worse suffering will come from America being overrun and destroyed. "America First" is not a path to repeating the mistakes of our former administrations. I already linked you to the campaign speech. This is not another four year election. We're cleaning house. You dive down into the swamp to clean it. The ultimate goal of a strong America is a strong world where we can all stand on our feet without a global banking class exploiting us.

we have enormous multinational corporations with no multinational regulations to prevent them from exploiting lesser developed countries.

We had a United Nations for 75 years and what did they do? Sat on their butt and let the human rights violators become the police. The answer CANNOT be internationalism. It's the same problem that necessitated the Electoral College. The cities outvoted the countryside. The corruption takes over the cities and it overrules the decent folks of the country.

Locals, on average, tend to be much more decent than their city slicker counterparts. But these policies all are designed to hurt the local populace. A strong country is strong because its people are able to stand up for themselves and do not need a nanny state holding their hand. Big businesses work to undermine the local populace. This was the part that escaped me when I was a libertarian since they sold the delusion that big companies are big because they're more efficient. That's false. Big companies tend to be those that were the least ethical.

What we need out of capitalism is its free entreperneurial spirit. It must be tempered with wisdom to understand when something becomes a black hole unto itself so we break up these multinational monsters before they form.

insurance companies... single payer healthcare

ACA was not the issue. The issue was greedy insurance companies.

I should mention that my mother is a wage slave for one of these before I continue...

Most people aren't buying into single payer health care as the cure. There's a reason. People are reasonably cynical because this isn't the first rodeo where someone proposes a solution that blows up in everyone's face. The solution to this problem isn't an easy one and nobody should think that it is... In fact, it will come with its own costs in terms of resource management and public taxation which will net to a worse system. The countries that have moved in that direction have long waiting lines and panels that decide who gets healthcare and who doesn't. There's one factor that will never go away in any healthcare system: scarcity.

The real system at work here is not just greed but also envy. These two tend to feed on each other in a destructive spiral. Some people in a Pareto distribution have more money than others as a natural consequence of excelling. Those who do excel tend to be able to afford better quality. This is balanced by the idea that the successful will buy from the less successful. But those who don't excel don't get as much "trickle down" benefit as they expect. So we find other people suggesting tax-based socialized derived solutions to punish success and reward those who have less aptitude and are pigeonholed in second tier quality. These socialized solutions then suffer an inevitable economic calculation problem with 2 aspects. The first is that allocating finite resources perfectly is impossible so there's always shortfalls or excesses. The second aspect is that middle managers who decide how to allocate resources figure out that they can exploit this role for their own selfish benefit which leads to corruption and people not getting any benefit despite these lofty promises. The shortfall soon becomes a massive deficit.

But do you realize we've already been down this road multiple times? It's important to realize what insurance companies actually were in early America. The insurance company was a company placing a bet that you'll stay healthy and you betting against yourself. It was no better than a casino or a payday loan. The net benefit was to the company because the house wins in the end. But it provided a niche for people who had little chance of succeeding at the big game in the long run. The smart people just paid for their own doctors and still do because there's much less risk of having delays and lower quality care.

The state then decided to intervene and manipulate this situation. (read: fucked it up worse...) Roosevelt decided to emulate Bismarck's policies in Germany and create Social Security and Medicare at taxpayer expense. This was the first step toward the eventual socialization of medicine. It introduced its own can of worms with that aforementioned corruption problem. As we all know this system was gradually gutted for the benefit of politicians. To supplement this, the government decided to manipulate it so that health insurance could not discriminate on preexisting conditions which undermined the bottom line and made it so the insurance providers had to act as an instrument of the state. Then Big Pharma and Big Agra decided to screw the pooch by putting out GMOs and harmful pharmaceuticals with high price tags.

So now we're advocating UBI and universal health care? Do you really think that's going to go much better? Most people don't.

The tragic fact of the matter is that the only person who can take care of you with any certainty is yourself. Charity is certainly a virtue and when people were more religious it was a celebrated virtue. But that's not something a reasonable person should be relying upon as anything more than a fallback. Yet we've got this warped surrogate health care system where everyone has demands and there's never enough supply. Tomorrow we'll have single payer health care with the same demand and even less supply.

The inevitable problem with health care is the same as any economic problem: allocation of resources. Healthcare relies on finite resources. Doctors cannot be legitimately enslaved to provide the service. Medicines must be produced using resources. All of that equates to money and time and resources. Single payer system won't fix that. It's just making us all pay into something that nobody is likely to see the benefit of in the end. You know? Like we already do with Social Security and Medicare.

Utopian ideals is they are not realistic. I wish everyone could be healthy and well. But short of the Second Coming of Christ I don't see how to implement it. As RD said, we are all scrambling over each other like lobsters trying to climb out of the aquarium to avoid becoming dinner. I wish I knew how to fix this permanently. But instead I have to be the gadfly pointing out that we're just building a tax-robbery merry go round instead. I guess in that respect, I'm still a libertarian... facepalm

GOP led conservatives vote against the interests of the people of this country to funnel money into the pockets of the already obscenely wealthy.

The boots on the ground show that people are getting more income overall. The Obama years which were supposedly about universalized benefit to everyone resulted in a net loss and destruction of the GDP.

The Democrats are no less involved in corruption and it's now obvious how bad they are. It's just that we have a beach head in Republicans to try to overthrow the corruption and the Democrats look like they've went criminally insane. Democrats that are willing to kill a baby that survived an abortion and who engage in all sorts of verbal legerdemain to try to avoid the fact that it's killing a baby is very telling. Democrats that propose a Green New Deal that wants to ban all forms of transportation in an economy where many people are less than a week from starvation without the modern transit network. There's no excusing it. It's madness.

I look forward to a day when the mainstream media stops muddying the waters and we see who the players really are. It's going to be a very interesting day. Maybe it doesn't happen. But if the utopians are allowed to spout their dreams why shouldn't I spout mine?