@gjohnsit

....a credible opposition to the Tax Cut Bill and they did not sway a single vote. And, in four years of not even trying, Biden's Handlers had no intention of reversing what would prove to be a self-inflicted economic disaster. Everyone involved in passing the Bill had a conflict of interest. The tax cut rules were designed to significantly benefit their demographic.

It was my mistake to mention the Political Parties at all and scrabble together poorly remember details of the passage of the nation-destroying Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. ('Jobs' lol.) It appears that I am blaming one Party or another for enacting this legislative suicide.

But that is just not my intention. I am thoroughly aware that the instant-millionaires who are elected to Congress or appointed to the Supreme Court are paid for their votes by national and international Plutocrats. I do expect them to vote accordingly on issues related to finance, corporations, defense expansion, military aggression against rival nations, trade sanctions and related acts of war, and doomed-to-failure boycotts like the 'Chips Act.' Never have I bought into the silly two-party kabuki generated by the Plutocrat controlled Federal Government. Or, tried to convince anyone that the two-party kabuki was real or was a sign of a working Democracy for the People..

Although I disagreed with the Tax Cut legislation on moral and humanitarian grounds, I do applaud the dramatic performance that Congress put on in passing it. The Bill would pass no matter which party controlled Congress. The outcome had been purchased by Our Plutocrat Overlords. The Supreme Court made such transactions legal. Thus, the instant millionaires and insider traders otherwise known as the Elected Government. In a decent nation, they would be banned from government..

The Tax Cut Bill is a legislative IED that has undermined the entire US economy. You may not be able to see this now — but you will. And, thank god the legislation passed sooner rather than later because it is set to trigger economic events that will cut the US off at the knees in its murderous attempt to impose its own rules upon the world. The Bill became law on December 22, 2017, a date that should be memorialized. Before the Law expires at the end of 2025 it will help incubate a financial situation that will destroy the credit worthiness of the US, and relocate the nation to the distant margins of international geopolitics. (Together with the massive blowback from the catastrophic decisions of the Neocon coup government.) Most ionically, the US Tax Cut Bill will be responsible for saving millions, perhaps billions of innocent lives around the world.

Looking Back: Had the Democrats not absorbed the worst of the Neocons and the CIA into their Party — and had they not broken their morality-based coalition with the Left and the Progressives — the Democratic Party would not have lost control over both Houses for the first time in nearly a century. Could the Democratic Party have extracted itself from the Uniparty Blob; could the Democrats have stopped the US from becoming the international horror that it is?

Now that I know what I know, I doubt it. The sheer number of unelected psychopaths holding positions of authority in the Federal Government would make that impossible.

My bad for posting on your essay.

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During Trump's first term, the Democrats voted for Trump's new economic policies in large enough numbers to pass them all.

In particular, the Dems passed Trump's time-bomb Tax Cut Bill

The House passed the bill on November 16, 2017, on a mostly-party line vote of 227–205. No Democrat voted for the bill, while 13 Republicans voted against it. On the same day, companion legislation passed the Senate Finance Committee, again on a party-line vote, 14–12.[91] On November 28, the legislation passed the Senate Budget Committee, again on a party-line vote.[92] In the early morning hours of December 2, 2017, the Senate passed its version of the bill by a 51–49 vote. Bob Corker (R–TN) was the only Republican senator to vote against this version of the bill and it received no Democratic Party support.