The current GOP rhetoric

I am not surprised at the current GOP's divisive rhetoric, because it's just the flavour of every conservative/ right wing party. I have been exposed to such types of speeches before, and it is becoming hackneyed, especially since the 2008 financial crisis. I will give it to any conservative right wing party that they are very loud and proud of their perspective, especially when it comes to people considered foreign. It is one thing expecting or strongly encouraging assimilation, and it is quite another to be anti everyone that is different from you in any way. I suppose politicking is about being loud and proud about your ideology and view point; the left wing counterparts do the same.

Everyone keeps talking about a K shaped economy, so really foreign-ness probably isn't a problem if you're on the escalator heading up. People tend to like you, when you're loose with your finances. What's that ABBA song? "Money is so funny, in a rich man's world". People also tend to like you, when you're a pushover they can use. Tightwads and harda**es aren't popular - surprising? No. And before anyone thinks it, when I mean harda**es, I don't mean just being a decent human being possessing an ounce of morality and sense of justice, that follows the delineated rules - that should be the bare minimum.

What people forget, is that when the pushovers which are loose with money go into debt, or enter into sticky financial situations, they quickly become of disrepute. Suddenly things aren't so funny anymore. Take tourism in the US currently: seems as if the overall volume of visitors has reduced, and businesses are having issues. Comments and speeches which sound vitriolic, tend to do that.