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One of the most pressing issues in America today is economic inequality. According to the United States Census Bureau, the poverty rate in 2019 was 10.5%, meaning that over 34 million Americans were living in poverty. Additionally, the gap between the rich and poor continues to widen, with the top 10% of households now holding over 70% of the country's wealth.
This economic inequality has wide-reaching consequences, from increased rates of homelessness and food insecurity to limited access to healthcare and education. It can also exacerbate social and political divides, creating a sense of disenfranchisement among those who feel left behind by the system.
Another pressing issue is racial inequality. Despite progress made in the civil rights movement, racial disparities persist across a wide range of social indicators. For example, black Americans are more likely to experience poverty, unemployment, and poor health outcomes than their white counterparts. Also, they are more likely to be the victims of police brutality and experience discrimination in areas such as housing and education.
The COVID-19 pandemic has also highlighted the stark inequalities in America's healthcare system, with minority communities bearing the brunt of the disease's impact. For example, black Americans are three times more likely to contract COVID-19 and twice as likely to die from the disease as white Americans.
Finally, climate change is a critical issue that requires immediate action. The United States is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world, contributing to global warming and its associated impacts, including more frequent and severe natural disasters, rising sea levels, and loss of biodiversity.
The consequences of climate change are already being felt, with the western United States experiencing record-breaking heat waves, wildfires, and droughts in recent years. In addition to the environmental impacts, climate change also has significant economic and social consequences, including food and water insecurity, displacement, and economic disruption.
I would say "division". But actual division based upon real ideas and principles is good. That is actually excellent! It is the fake division based upon political labels, fake racial categories, and other nonsense that is the problem.
Like you can't find a single racist at GaG who can actually articulate their grievances in a truthful genuine way.
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There are a great many issues over which the people have no reason to agree and thus also wast time debating politically beyond the fact that some wish to tell others what they Must do, or must beleive.
I think among those some it is the idea of unity in all things as most of the world defines a nation that may be the problem. They actually think we are not merely brothers and our brothers keeper but our brothers jailer as well.
For better or worse this idea simply isn't comparable with a union as diverse and large as theses united States. We have too many good reasons to be different that we cannot agree for long on soo many areas of life even if we wanted to.
@monorprise Nah, that is not true. Zealots and extremists don't compromise or even take time to enumerate or discuss real differences. Because actual real discussion/understanding brings people closer together. And extremists in this nation, need folks to avoid discussion. Extremism in America is built upon aggressive ignorance, stereotyping, and mythology.
Frank, genuine discussion over real principles and ideas prevents the kind of nonsense we have in debates today.
The point is, there are actual real differences between certain ideologies. And real progress can be made discussing those real differences and looking at genuine concerns.
Like there is actual concern over the destruction of the American family as the building block of our society. There needs to be a genuine discussion about the real issues confronting, people's ability to meet, form a relationship, get married and have children.
Having fake debates over culture, race, and gender as obstacles does nothing to move that discussion forward.
@RolandCuthbert Why do we need to compromise or talk about everything?
We really only need to discuss and compromise what we can't avoid doing to each-other.
There is no need to compromise on that which we need not agree or cooperate on.
In those areas where we do need agreement such as families and business we need not all agree. Those agreements can be limited to domain of culture and area.
I could not agree more that the most fundamental problem facing America and the industrialized world in general is the collapse in families and child rearing. The future depends upon a quick resolution to this ever more deteriorating practice.
In my opinion the issue is clearly driven by the effects of individualization going back 200+ years. Be that increased distractions, wealth, female education, collapse of interdependencies.
The exact effects of theses changes leading to the collapse thou certantly in this domain I am not yet sure.
@monorprise Uhm, as a person who routinely posts me at GaG, this is an odd question. In fact it is odd to talk to anyone while believing in such a foundational principle and then ask them about compromise and discussion.
You don't have to compromise. You don't have to understand me. So why are writing me? This is your belief system not mine. I am just pointing out this is not only hypocritical, it is not rational thinking. It would be more rational to just have your feelings about me, stereotypes about the groups you put me in, etc. And do all of this without ever talking to me. Never try to understand who I am, what my upbringing was like or understand the culture/history that I was raised in.
You do you.
But if you truthfully believe this. Never post me again. Or anyone that you claim to have disagreement with.
The idea itself is deranged in my opinion. But you would at least have a bit of consistency in how your behave and in what you believe.
@RolandCuthbert You are correct I shouldn't have to compromise or discuss many domestic issues with you. I am nonetheless forced to by the unlawful central goverment we share.
That is my issue the nature of our relationship.
That said I do very much as you enjoy the philosophical discussion. To discuss the implications of choices in theory even thou I am very much against any effort to be forced to agree.
As such there is nothing even remotely hypocritical about such a discussion much less dealing with the reality forced upon us both.
@monorprise Again, everything you say is just crazy delusional nonsense.
Unlawful central government, discussion, etc.
You have these feelings and thoughts in a society that is supposed to be "free". This society is supposed to allow for people to reach vastly different conclusions than you. That pisses you off. We know that. We get that. But we are not going to give up our freedoms and our lives just so you can be happy. Realistically, there is no way you can be happy in you current state. You seem to have deep mental and emotional issues.
Then the craziest thing is. . . you say you cannot compromise on what we choose to even believe about ourselves, our separate histories and unique cultures. But for some reason you wish to talk with us anyway.
Sir, in all my years, no poster terrifies me more than you.
I fear for the safety of people who consider you to be friends and family.
@RolandCuthbert I'm afraid I don't follow how you come to beleive I have any feelings or thoughts beyond that of mere patriotism and the conviction of duty of law.
I see no rational reason to draw any such conclusion of me. If you must know I am personalty a very-non-emotional person. I must have spesfic reason for everything and I know of this reason.
My passion is merely the duty of a man to his country which in my case was dedicated to the cause of liberty. For America is suppose to be as it was originally founded an empire of liberty not ruling men.
That said I must admit I often find many of you reasoning to be just as crazy and as I likewise cannot follow how you expect many of your positions to work together. This could be a failure to communicate or it could simply be the ideological blindness that nearly all men suffer from in trying to support a coherent set of ideas that are by nature the work of very different men and agendas.
@monorprise You just stated that you feel no need to compromise. How that patriotic in a society that is built upon compromise? In a society, where the entire journey has been one of creating freedoms and access for more and more people?
You are not a patriot. You are a nationalist. Those are two totally different things.
As for the rule of law, I think that it is hilarious that you would even attempt to make a connection to your belief system.
I know you think yourself “non-emotional”. It is the funniest, most terrifying thing about you. You see, you think yourself logical. But you don’t practice any logic. You speak calmly and directly. . . as though the act itself is some kind of proof.
But logic is about what can objectively be assessed as truth. It has nothing to do with the delivery of your beliefs.
And no you don’t have any objective or rational reason for your beliefs. You are religious. That does not require logic. That requires faith. And zealots see only their beliefs and worldview when it comes to other people. There is an objectification process that you engage in, to remove any doubt that your worldview “trumps” all others.
And the weird thing is to pretend that such a process is reasonable. And that any rational mind, would see it as such.
I don’t know what you mean by “many positions”. I guess when you are a zealot, you can’t fathom that there are people in the world who have beliefs. . . but see no reason to force those beliefs on others.
I may not share beliefs of many different groups, but I hardly would want to live in a society that outlawed people for reaching different conclusions. I can peacefully live with those who can peacefully live with me.
@RolandCuthbert asked: "How that patriotic in a society that is built upon compromise?"
Who said our society was built upon compromise? Its rather clear right from the start our society was built for no other propose than to preserve as many liberties as possible.
Compromise is at best a necessary evil, best kept to a minimum like the force it requires.
No one can 'create' freedom for other people as freedom is the default state of nature,. You would have compete freedom were there no other person or state around.
Such is why at best we can restore people to their natural state of freedom only by removing the force that had inhibited such freedom.
@RolandCuthbert said: "You are not a patriot. You are a nationalist. Those are two totally different things. "
I agree patriotic and nationalist are 2 completely different things, although i think you got their definitions mixed up.
A patriot is defined as someone advocating for freedom. A nationalist supports the notion of submitting to common organization for the alleged good of a particular lot of people. They are almost opposite concepts.
@RolandCuthbert said: "But logic is about what can objectively be assessed as truth. It has nothing to do with the delivery of your beliefs."
To a degree i would agree with that definition of logic, although the details of what is true is established by observation of results.
In this regard what we call "rational" is defined as consistent with said observations in how the world does in fact work. It is of course entirely possible that your observations lead you to a different conclusion than has mine.
This is why it is important for us to site examples and analogues to provide a common frame of reference for this reasoning as so that we might both discuss the issues and point out details perhaps overlooked in judging what idea and expected behavior is rational.
@monorprise So you feel that you can state objectively that it is not built upon compromise?
You mean from the start, this society was built to preserve everyone’s liberties? Maybe that is incorrect for a great many groups who were present at the start of this society. It is “evil” to compromise. But not evil to deny people liberty, freedom, justice. . ?
That’s interesting.
It is like looking at the reasoning of a psychopath.
Freedom is the “default” state of nature? What does that even mean? A child born into slavery would think that slavery is their default state.
I am fully aware that patriotism is at odds with nationalism. But I don’t think you do. I think you feel they are one and the same.
@monorprise
When we speak about what is objective or true. . . that would be those observations that are true regardless of where on earth we measure or make them. They would be truth independent of worldview or bias. Mathematics is true here in the U. S. . . and still true in India. Gravity works the same way in the UK. . . as it does in Japan.
But your “truths” are about what people can or should think. What people can or should find moral. What people can or should define as freedom. As though there is some universal rule you have observed.
And this part is always strange. Because there is this hypocrisy inherent in the foundation of the belief system. You can claim everyone shares your beliefs. . . while knowing simultaneously that such a thing is impossible.
So it is a dualism that says you are only reciting truths that everyone. . . or most everyone already acknowledges on the one hand. But then the other, your culture, your worldview. . . the one that devoid of bias, emotions, and the other hindrances that mere human beings have to deal with, is the superior. . . truest mode of assessing truth. But not just for yourself.
For everyone else.
That’s the part that is always mind boggling.
But then it continues into this idea of compromise being evil. . . while seeking dialogue. . . for a compromise.
That's when I know the car has left the garage. . . if I may use an analogy.
Stop the flow of illegal immigrants over the border, which brings in Cartel members, drugs, such as Fentanyl, sex traffickers, rapists, killers, and a plethora of other illegal activity. Not to mention the $Billions it is costing taxpayers to foot the bill for them, which could go towards our own homeless and poor. Did you notice that when illegal immigrants were dropped off in a congressman's neighborhood how fast they were rounded up and shipped out?
Probably sounds like a good idea to stop the war on drugs then which was started by us and still enforced by us.
I would give economic benefits to married couples to lower the chances of divorce or run away parents. If a situation is abusive, divorce might be better than marriage, but for less hostile families, a joint family unit is good for kids and is also good for society and for the government, cause less public funding is necessary to protect the children if both parents are sharing rent and food and child care together.
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You can't really fix the education system in the country without completely upending and overhauling it, which I support, but it'll never happen. It is however, the best choice of these four because it can indirectly fix the other three over time.
On that note, the other three are poorly framed. There isn't a "gun control" problem beyond existing laws not being enforced; we have a problem with a narcissistic culture that completely devalues life and promotes vandalism and assault as a form of expression so long as it supports the narrative of the day. The Democrats aren't pro-black, and the Republicans aren't pro-white; the Democrats ram identity politics as the core of their platform, while the Republicans don't consider race important or valuable at all, except when it's convenient to point out hypocrisy and double-standards, which they then proceed to do nothing about anyway. Substance abuse of say marijuana or painkillers isn't even close to how much of a problem fentanyl has become, yet huge chunks of the federal government actively avoid acknowledging fentanyl is a problem at all. This also gets into the ballpark of investigating the big pharma companies, which are basically beyond reproach since more than 3/4 of our elected officials are stockholders in at least one of them and jump through hoops to protect them.
1. Global Warming, as it can easily end our whole civilization.
2. Corruption. Our legislators are usually bought and sold, with unlimited money pouring into all of Our Elections. This causes all the gun deaths. It causes wages to be low. It causes laws to be passed and changed and ruled on by Our Courts, that favor The Rich getting richer.
3. Next would be changing our gun laws to prevent mass shootings. It is possible, and EVERY OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRY has done this, and NONE of them has mass all the time, like we do. In fact, NONE of those countries has almost any mass shootings at all... they are VERY RARE in every developed country.
4. Race relations, coupled with stopping Domestic Terrorism, which is mostly done by White Guys raised in a Christian background, in Our America. They are both interrelated. The legal system is really racist. Ending bail completely is one way that makes it less so. People, who are not a threat, should not be in jail. They she be out, awaiting trial, working in their jobs and/or taking care of their kids. If someone IS a threat, they should not be able to post a massive amount of bail to flee the country, or kill or rape someone while out awaiting trial.
5. We need a MASSIVE overhaul of our Tax Structure. Currently, The Rich pay WAY LESS than their fair share of taxes, while the Middle Class pay WAY more...
If elected president I would just spend my time explaining that my job would be to protect the American citizens from direct threats, foreign and domestic and that most of the things you want are being ruined by the legislative branch clown show. The executive branch is for military action and foreign affairs. In peace time, don't embarrass the country.
Now if I had the power to fix anything, I would force any bill proposed by the legislative branch to be focused on the specific issue instead of thousand page bills titled "the country will burn to death on a pyre of its own fecal matter" that gives 5 bucks to the average citizen and 5 billion to a corporate entity that thinks capitalism is good for their compeaters
Out of those options, definitely education. Our schools ranging from elementary to college have been infected by leftists and focus on students becoming activists with false ideologies and ruining the lives of regular citizens instead of educating kids to be successful in the future. That needs to be stopped. These students are the future. And if get raised the way they are right now, the country will be in big trouble. What DeSantis and Youngkin are doing is exactly what we need to fix the problem. So that will be my main focus at the beginning. Then I will move to other problems.
I'd really like to see some actual competance and people giving a shit about their jobs. It seems like every organization in America these days is just riddled with incompetance at every level. Just absolute idiots everywhere. Society has lost its mind.
I found out yesterday that the reason for all the close calls with planes that have been happening recently is that flight companies started hiring people without any experience, specifically to meet diversity quotas.
Imagine living in a world that has suddenly become so racist that someone's skintone is a metric by which we figure out if they can operate a fucking plane. It sounds dystopian, but that's the world we find ourselves in.
If you think about it, the majority of the obstacles we face in the U. S. all stem from ignorance. If we paid teachers a fair wage, they'd be more inclined to take their jobs more seriously, and as a result we'd see more intelligent children from all walks of of life. Everything else fixes itself when we educate the population, and instill values and a moral compass into the newest generation.
None of the above.
Americans Presidents have no constitutional role to have any say on any of those issues.
They are suppose to be head of the Federal Executive branch, their focus should be managing relations with forign powers.
Theses are the tasks of State & local governments if their constitutions so permit.
Education. The most underrated subject. Children are the future, nurturing how they solve problems and grasp for their dreams. Teaching them to be smart and wise is the beginning steps of solving problems of an entire country.
Turn the black budget and black ops into white budget and white ops. Publish all NSA data collection operations. Bankrupt the Payseurs. Cancel all patents. Free energy and decentralization of power.
first and foremost is the ecnomy, it's a mess.
Get the debt and the deficit under controll.
Those numbers are staggering.
it's time we take care of all ofthe issues we have here at home before we go bail out every other country.
getting rid of the woke lunatics in schools, media, politics would be a good start
then fixing the economy, fixing the laws and fixing the education
Nothing you listed except, peripherally, the last, by closing the border. The economy comes after that.
Lol you’d rather close the border than help education or gun control?
Unfortunately something that is much harder to fix than any of these: Stupidity. The lack of basic rational thought in the vast majority of the populace. It is the cause of all of those other problems.
Government's out-of-control spending.
https://www.axios.com/2023/02/15/cbo-deficit-debt-ceiling-2023
Of these? Education. That can fix a lot of the other stuff.
I'll say education, because with a well educated population, the other issues will slowly start to disolve on their own
Dems are pro black and reps are pro white. Really? It’s that simple?
Nothing will save it.
Its just a matter of time
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Getting homeless vets off the streets & stop giving money to illegals & foreigners and support actual AMERICANS
Get the politics together. Political divide an a country will fall apart.
Disinformation
It's the economy stupid
Education can maybe fix the other three.
Get rid of biden
false information by the Trump Run Media
Secure the border.
Along with ending the war on drugs otherwise waste of money and time
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