Politics 101, bring me up to speed.

I'm absolutely clueless when it comes to Politics but I've noticed that a few people on lounge actually know what they're talking about while others are simply trolling their ass off.
I've tried Google but I don't know where to start.

So I was hoping my fellow loungers could help me out.

Libreals=conservatives>republicans=democrats

Read all of Noam Chomskys books. Thats a new start.

^good start

There's an tiny class of businesspeople and a huge class of workers. The business class buy the labor time of the worker class for less money than it's worth so they can keep the profit.

The business class
- Favor eliminating international tariffs or VAT which allow them to buy cheap, disempowered labor in other countries
- Favor tax cuts.
- Oppose anything which will risk currency inflation (decreasing the value of their assets)
- Oppose regulations which limit their ability to make profit or be held accountable for wrongdoing.
- Oppose anything which empowers workers.

The worker class
- Favors publicly funded social safety nets like Social Security, healthcare, transportation, etc.
- Favors public access to a good education
- Favors a progressive tax system where the rate is proportional to household income
- Opposes foreign occupations which bleed public funds, and kill the working people who do the actual warfighting

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in summary:  horrible, just awful.  Long version:  politics when done skillfully is the art of the empowered managing to keep from being beheaded by the unempowered.

Over a hundred years ago, Bierce wrote The Devil's Dictionary.

POLITICS, n.
A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

CHRISTIAN, n.
One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

CONSERVATIVE, n.
A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

CORPORATION, n.
An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

ACADEME, n.
An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
ACADEMY, n.
[from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.

HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.

IMPUNITY, n. Wealth

INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

MAGNET, n. Something acted upon by magnetism.

MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet.

The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.

MULATTO, n. A child of two races, ashamed of both.