Part 2 of our overgrown pissing contest picks up where we left off last week, with my foe calling me a Socialist.
Brody: I’ve been doing this site for four months and no one has called me a socialist before now.
ReaganFan: Well, there’s always time for your readers to become educated lol.
Brody: Yeah, there ain’t a damn soul laughing besides you buddy. What is a socialist, just a liberal with a spine? Why can a liberal not stand for anything without being called a socialist?
ReaganFan: Why can’t a conservative stand for anything without being called a fascist?
Brody: I’d rather be called a socialist than a fascist.
ReaganFan: And that’s why you are a socialist!
Brody: Right, because Bernie Sanders is worse than Hitler. I’ve noticed this annoying tactic of the right wing calling everyone a socialist just because they don’t think income inequality is a good idea.
ReaganFan: Liberals call me a fascist because I don’t think massive debt is a good idea.
Brody: Wrong. They call you that not because you’re a big debt crusader, you just want to eliminate every program that would go to poor people and take none of the subsidies corporations get or the rich tax cuts.
ReaganFan: Those tax cuts create jobs for the poor people instead of them taking handouts provided by my taxes.
Brody: Those tax cuts create jobs for poor people in India and China. Let’s cut the shit. You’re always slinging around this term socialist, and I get the third grade tendency to call people names to distract from real issues. But eventually we’re going to get so sick of income inequality and corporate thieves it’s going to be “Fuck it, I’m a socialist. Now give me my money back.” Eventually, labeling us won’t be enough to distract people.
ReaganFan: [Another long ass pause]
Brody: When I make a good point, you say nothing–
ReaganFan: You didn’t make a good point, I just didn’t know how to respond.
Brody: You’ll say nothing when I actually want to see you defend the indefensible, and you’ll sit back and wait for me to say something you can argue with. I just have to throw out some irrelevant chum, and you swim up and spin the conversation around that. Should I say the words “illegal immigrant” or “the science on global warming is totally uniform” to get your motor running?
ReaganFan: What is your point? Once again, I’m bewildered by your stupidity.
Brody: Us liberals are a crafty bunch. I guess my point is exactly how many ways you can find to spin the conversation off track before you finally get serious and try to defend the indefensible.
ReaganFan: And what is on track?
Brody: I want you–without any bullshit, games, or side tracks–to tell me why Reaganomics and all the income inequality it causes is good for America. Not why you THINK it’s good for America but how in the hell income inequality is?
ReaganFan: Unions are–
Brody: NO! No unions are holding us back, no collective bargaining is somehow making the price of toothpaste higher, no tax cuts for the rich create jobs, tell me in unequivocal terms how income inequality is good for America?
ReaganFan: I don’t think Reaganomics does promote income inequality. That’s not what we’re advocating with it.
Brody: It absolutely does. The last thirty years have proven that, income inequality is off the charts as a result of conservative economic policies.
ReaganFan: The government–
Brody: Hell NO! Nothing in your answer should involve the words “government,” “unions,” or “Democrats voted for the Bush tax cuts too.” I want you to defend income inequality, no scapegoats, no bullshit. Tell me how income inequality is a good thing.
ReaganFan: The way you’re asking me to answer is almost impossible without going into the background of what really lead us to income inequality. If I’m forced to accept your premise of Reaganomics leads to income inequality and argue for that. I guess I would say that income inequality is the first phase when the top has more money to create jobs with, it still looks so bad because we’re in the transitional phase and the government has stopped a lot of the real progress that could have been created by now.
Brody: So they’ve had these tax cuts from Reagan and then they had Bush’s tax cuts which were even more. Right now taxes are as low for the top 1 percent as they have been for 60 years…and we have 9 percent unemployment and off the charts income inequality. If these tax cuts were going to create jobs, what the fuck are they waiting on?
ReaganFan: Again, the government’s failed and mismanaged money policies have been responsible for most of those jobs leaving, hamstringing business with too much regulation and red tape.
Brody: Oh God…I think I better stop this. I don’t get how you can say these cuts create jobs when they haven’t, I don’t get how you can say they don’t promote income inequality when they have, and I really don’t get why I thought you’d answer a straight question without any scapegoats on my website. Either way, good luck and goodbye.
End Note: And so we see the real benefit of debating strangers found on the internet like stray cats: I don’t have to talk to them afterwards.