Polls: Society & Politics

Everything about modern life is just so completely wrong and strange. We have a situation where, at any moment, millions of people could instantly die at the turning of a couple of keys at some missile base somewhere, when ordered to do so by some senile "world leader". People froth at the mouth over text on an electronic screen that some stranger half a world away posted on this thing called 'The Internet', while others are confused about what gender they are when all they have to do to settle the question is just look between their legs. We have naive young people who don't know any better openly supporting communism, while everyone else is deeply nostalgic for a past that only ever existed in their imagination because life now has become unbearable, even though from a purely material perspective things have never been better. In some countries (like Canada) the government has no issue with murdering its own citizens (euthanasia), while in others (Australia, England) the police act like the Gestapo when someone just expresses an opinion that isn't politically correct. In many nations people now actually accept constant surveillance if in return they're promised, by their government, security and safety.

This isn't normal. For most of man's history, things just weren't like this. What went wrong, how did we end up this way?

A man is accused of rape, and it goes to trial. In the US legal system, the prosecutors cannot hide information that may exonerate the defendant, they must share it; however, if the defense has information pointing to the defendant's guilt, it doesn't have to turn it over.

My point: in a system of justice, both sides would want the innocent exonerated, and the guilty punished. In our system, that does not happen. The defense's job is to make sure the defendant gets off no matter his guilt. Helping a guilty man go free may not be as bad as helping an innocent man get punished, but both are affronts to justice.

Did the DNC shoot them selves in the foot by waiting till the last minuet to potentially replace Biden through backroom deals instead of allowing voters to choose a stronger candidate during the primaries?

Following someone's suggestion on another thread, I've decided to watch Bad Faith. A must-see for every American voter.

Bad Faith is a documentary film which came out this year about how christian nationalism came to be a serious threat to democracy, in the United States.

Focusing particularly on the Heritage Foundation and its key people like Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell, the film discuss the movement's ideological ties with white supremacist, its avowed aim of usurping the US government and the many, many devious initiatives that the movement put forward over the last decades to build their own separate culture, in order to try to smother what they see as perverse, immoral left-wing hegemony over society.

Bad Faith exposes the dangers of christian nationalism and the ties it developed over the years with the republican party (including Ronald Reagan) and, most recently, the administation of Donald Trump and the surrounding MAGA culture.

It paints a picture of profoundly dishonest and deranged people who claim to be the purest christians there is, all the while showing little or no interest for actual christian values. Angry, bigotted, authoritarian people ready to shoot and already assuming that one day they will have to fight a holy war against the government and a society which may not conform to their beliefs.

Sometimes, people who denounce "evil" in the name of Jesus truly are the product of the deepest bowels of hell and these people truly deserve to be crushed.

In the midst of the weird political coverage, a key story has been largely overlooked. Not only does the stock market continue to set record highs, but also, as Jim Tankersley of the New York Times reported, the so-called left-behind counties, distressed after the collapse of manufacturing in them, have “added jobs and new businesses at their fastest pace since Bill Clinton was president.” “That turnaround,” he notes, “has shocked experts.” More than 1,000 counties, mostly in the Southeast and Midwest, that grew at less than half the national rate in terms of both people and income from 2000 to 2016, have surged. From 2016 to 2019—mostly during Trump’s administration—those rural left-behind counties, which make up about 18% of the U. S. population, added 10,000 jobs. In 2023 alone, they added 104,000.

Tankersley notes that Trump overwhelmingly won the support of voters in these counties, but their circumstances did not improve during his administration. Under Biden, they added jobs five times faster than they did under Trump. Still, voters there appear to continue to back Trump.

Are they backing Trump because they care more about culture wars than their economic security? Or are they ill informed?

(Yes, I am @normalice posting anonymously because I want to give the right wing snowflakes who blocked me the opportunity to see key information they have created a bubble to avoid).

Ex-POTUS Trump lied about his involvement in Project 2025. Fully 38 ex-members of his admin helped draft it. Why does Trump LIE profusely & poorly?

Have you heard of Project 2025?

No anonymous opinions, say it, own it.

I’ve been defrauded and it hurts. Pain in the confidence.