Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Nate The Lawyer" channel.

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  29. Still no one is talking about the key election driver, the economy. If immigration were high, but prices were low and people could still afford amazing lifestyles no one would care about immigration. If crime was high, but prices were so low that replacing things stolen was trivial, no one would care. The problem they actually care about and actually are identifying is the hit their hip pockets have undergone since covid. Harris was involved in making prices go up and had no well communicated plan to bring them back down. Trump promised to bring prices back down. And he promised to get thjngs under control that push prices up. It's really that simple. The driver was the economy. 10:35 "The main role of government is to protect its citizens" What a disgusting thing to say. The role of government is not and never has been to maternalise the populus. The role of government is to administer public funds in such a way as to support and enable capitalism to take place such that the economy grows. That's it. We don't have laws to protect individuals, we have laws to protect the economy and to create the kinds of conditions where productivity goes up. Schools exist to train employees. Hospitals exist to get people back to peak productivity as quickly as possible. The concept of retirement was invented to get the old, slower workers out of the workplaces in order to increase productivity with a younger, faster workforce. That's how capitalism works. It's an economy that centres society around privately owned economic output. It's also why it succeeds over communism which centres society around government control of economic output. Capitalism and communism are mostly the same system, only in communism it takes the fate of the individual out of their own hands and places it into the hands of the anointed, which tanks productivity. Prop 6 wasn't about slavery. It was about forced labour in prison. Very different. That's why it failed because people understood it and want prisoners to do forced labour. You know, justice.
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  44. In many ways I don't think it was a vote for trump, so much as it was a vote against Kamala and the Democrats. I think the biggest driver was the transparent prosecution of a political opponent, and the equally transparent lying. I think that rallied more people to vote than otherwise would have simply because they rejected the prosecution of opponents. I think the next biggest factor was minority politics. Lots of people refer to it as identity politics but it doesn't encompass all of minority politics nor identify the real issue. Being called names is annoying but no one is changing president over it. The president can't stop individuals calling you names. What matters is the LAWS that are passed which grant minority groups greater rights than the majority. This was the majority reasserting their power that they matter more than any minority group. That democracy is for the majority. But mostly what lost the election was people hurting in the hip pocket. Historically, and this applies across every country, if while in office you hurt peoples hip pockets over a sustained period, you have lost the next election unless you can demonstrate a realistic plan to make people's hip pockets great again, and have that plan in action and at least starting to work. Kamala didn't have that. She didn't even campaign on economic policy. Trump did, and he whispered sweet nothings (particularly to blacks and latinos) about how he would make their bank accounts grow. It's that simple. For Kamala to win she needed strong economic policy that would lower prices, lower taxes and increase earnings for the average person. Or at very least she needed to pork barrel by handing out cash to everyone. Instead they focused on a gendered RH issue and name calling Trump. That's a weak leader and the electorate rejected her as a result.
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