re: If one of the Democratic Candidates becomes President, what to do with your money?

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It’s a form of Institutional decadence- a hubris of the insular. A belief that because one is rational and constructive that others are rational and constructive. And yet history is replete with those who just want to see the world burn, lighting the world aflame because their moment finally arrivesd. While others stand there with their mouths agape, not believing that humans are once again acting like humans. It is folly to believe America is immune to these forces.

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Good grief, give the overwrought prose a rest.

Yes, it's worth remembering that some want to "watch the world burn": today is the anniversary of the start of the three-day battle of Gettysburg. ~3,500 Americans died in that battle of the Civil War, with +25,000 casualties in all. It was, at its heart, an economic fight on one side, and an ideological one for the other side.

In that particular case, I'm happy the ideologues won over those who wanted to preserve their particular brand of capitalism. Slavery is/was abhorrent; its end bankrupted many. The end of the pecular institution still needed to happen, even though massive amounts of "wealth" were destroyed by the freeing of humans who should have never been counted as capital.

Change is a constant, and often, the greater good is served even though it causes economic pain for some in the short term. Diversify your investments, know that you have "enough" and could likely live well & happily with far less, and you'll sleep better at night & not worry so damn much about bogeymen who may or may not be under your bed.

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Ignorance is indeed bliss.

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No one is being ignorant. Just because one doesn't shout at the wind like you do, doesn't mean we are being ignorant.

We hear and read, more so than most. We understand that the whining of a few politicians does not equal a socialist revolution. We don't have kings or dictators, and there is no majority of support for such. Not to say in the future history it will NEVER happen but the idea is far away.

A strong majority in this country do not support any expansion of socialism (we already have some forms of socialism in our country, mainly SOCIAL security). Any expansion of socialist programs would require majorities in all three branches of government, which is not likely to happen.

Making plans based on highly unlikely scenerios is likely worse than making no plans at all.