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IMO they haven't been hurt enough. I want farms lost. Jobs lost, I want them broken
And then what? What does this accomplish? What’s the end goal beyond more suffering and radicalization?
The person I responded to said they want these people broken. Jobs lost, farms confiscated, essentially homeless and ruined.
77 million people voted for Trump. Roughly a third of voting age individuals. What exactly are you suggesting? Do we jail them all? Where do we put them in that case? Or should they just be executed? Concentration camps? Slave labor?
What do you suggest we do with a third of the country who have no jobs, no prospects, utterly broken, and with nothing to lose?
I don’t like these folks, but I don’t think you or the previous person I replied to are thinking through the actual ramifications here. Economically this would ruin the country even in a good economy (which this is decidedly not). This would lead to civil war as the best case scenario, and any other scenario would be either insane levels of human rights violations or downright genocide.
And on top of all that, it wouldn’t actually solve any of the issues our country is facing in the near term. It would do nothing about the ringleaders, the manipulation, the corruption. Punishing idiots and assholes is vengeance of a kind, but it’s not a solution and won’t fix anything.
If there were some group that wasn't the very group that's hurting them to buy up their lands and resources. Then you might have a point. Then it would be extremely fitting for them to have to work on what used to be their lands that they lost through mismanagement. But that's not what would happen. Wealthy oligarchs will buy at the land for pennies on the dollar put them out of work and not create a job in its place. We will all suffer collectively just so one very uninformed dumb person suffers as well. That's a very conservative mindset
Bingo. There's no upside here. Either very stupid, selfish millionaire bigots own the farms, or somewhat less stupid billionaire bigots own them.