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BarackTheVote

(938 posts)
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 07:32 PM Feb 2017

What is their endgame?

I mean, sure, there are a lot who just want to provoke Armageddon and get raptured, but that can't be all of them; these people are being humored by the money and by leaders like Turtle-Man and Smirk. Is it really something as pedestrian as just redistributing wealth to the .01%? And even if they do take all that money, who are they going to sale their wares to, when everyone in the working class is either dying from lack of healthcare, homeless on the street, or working for pennies a day? Is it really all just for short-sighted greed?

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What is their endgame? (Original Post) BarackTheVote Feb 2017 OP
You're suggesting they are smart. C_U_L8R Feb 2017 #1
To suck all the money and resources out of earth and then leave us to die while they colonize mars? TalenaGor Feb 2017 #2
For the elite, the end-game is to return to something close to the Gilded Age Lanius Feb 2017 #3
Spot on. BeckyDem Feb 2017 #7
Best description of the GOP Wellstone ruled Feb 2017 #8
Many are nihilists...imo wcmagumba Feb 2017 #4
When they get done raping America Phoenix61 Feb 2017 #5
To return to their golden age, the Gilded Age... JHB Feb 2017 #6
This is. TransitJohn Feb 2017 #9
Return to the 16th century Great Britain. nt madinmaryland Feb 2017 #10

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)
1. You're suggesting they are smart.
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 07:36 PM
Feb 2017

Greedy and power-mad, for sure. Devious, often. Self-serving, all the time. But intelligence isn't really a republican attribute.

Lanius

(599 posts)
3. For the elite, the end-game is to return to something close to the Gilded Age
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 07:39 PM
Feb 2017

For the rubes who vote against their best interests, the end-game is to return America to that fantasy version of the 1950s when everyone on TV was white, Christian and straight.

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)
5. When they get done raping America
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 07:43 PM
Feb 2017

they will set their sights on other countries. Japan comes to mind. Lots of money there.

JHB

(37,161 posts)
6. To return to their golden age, the Gilded Age...
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 07:46 PM
Feb 2017

When (some) men might magnanimously not act as tyrants wherever they had power, but they had the right to.

They want to eliminate the 20th century, except for the gadgets.

TransitJohn

(6,932 posts)
9. This is.
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 08:08 PM
Feb 2017

They don't really know what they want, they just want to see the educated, the liberal, the urbanites suffer. That's it.

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