Comments by "Rusty Shackleford" (@POCKET-SAND) on "Whatifalthist"
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@andzzz2 No, the post-war years brought about the prosperity of the 1950s, unions had virtually nothing to do with it. WWII pretty much severely crippled, if not outright destroyed, all the the world's industrial economies (Europe, U.S.S.R., and Japan) except for the U.S. So the U.S. basically had a monopoly on all industries for 15 years while the rest of the world rebuilt itself. That's why the economy was great during the late 40s, 50s, and early 60s, American industries had virtually no international competition.
Wealth isn't necessarily created by workers, that's just a Marxist talking point. You can easily create wealth through investments that don't involve anybody performing physical activity. Additionally, when banks give out loans, they are creating wealth, as people still have their money in the bank and others are receiving funds in order to start a business or make a large purchase. Deindustrialization largely happened because companies found it cheaper to produce things elsewhere, largely because labor unions made the cost of production much more expensive.
The root cause of the decline wasn't necessarily the fact that labor unions are corrupt, it was that labor unions made the cost of production more expensive. And the standard of living hasn't necessarily declined and even if it did, correlation doesn't equate to causation.
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With all due respect, I don't think you're living in reality.
Stalin, Mao, and the rest are not exceptions, they are the norm for the left. When the left is able to grab significant political power within a country, totalitarianism soon follows. After which, dictators like Stalin pop up with alarming regularity.
As for Trump, what did he do that was so authoritarian and terrible during the 4 years he was in office? Where did he say he wanted to suspend the Constitution? Do you geniunely believe America is better now than it ever was before?
From the border bill rhetoric, I can tell you don't reall understand what you're talking about. Firstly, Congress rejected the border bill, Trump didn't like the bill but he had no vote on the matter technically. Secondly, the "border bill" only talked about the southern border for about 20% of the bill. The remainder was filled with just shameless attempts at increasing the power of the federal government in matters completely unrelated to the border. The section that did deal with the border wouldn't even solve the border crisis. The bill aimed to drastically raise the limit for how many people could come in per year, provide more resources for vetted those people, and making a path to citizenship easier. People don't want this, people want the border to actually be secured and for mass migration to stop, this is why Republicans in Congress rejected the "border bill" (which again, only talked about the border in 20% of the document, naming it the "border bill" was a political stunt by Democrats).
The Democrats weren't trying the solve the problem, they were trying to legitimize it.
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