Polls: Society & Politics

I’m worried the least skilled and intelligent will become the majority of our military.

Washington, D. C. is the nation's capital; that is a fact. Facts remain constant and can be objectively verified.

Donald Trump is an idiot; that is an opinion. Nancy Pelosi is an idiot; that is also an opinion. Whether you believe either of them is an idiot, and ordinary person, a genius, a clown who occasionally gets things right, or some other conclusion. . . that is based on your political bias and you predisposition to believe certain things because of your political orientation.

Most of our political beliefs are based on opinions, not facts.

My opinions are premised about some fundamental beliefs I have about the function of government. I want it to intrude in our lives as little as possible, to guarantee our freedoms, and I don't want it to take the place of parents in providing all of our needs; I believe taking care of ourselves is an individual responsibility. I also have an inherent distrust for big government. That leads me to being a conservative/libertarian. But I can't prove that my fundamental assumptions are "correct."

If you want government to provide a safety net and to provide as much as possible for each citizen, then you are willing to sacrifice some individual freedoms and you don't mind intrusions into your personal life. You also trust the government to do its job without corruption or bias. That leads you to be a liberal. And you can't prove that your fundamental assumptions are "correct," either.

I don't think you're stupid. I just think you placed more value on having a safety net and you are more trusting of the government. For two years, I dated a girl who was (and still is) very liberal and I NEVER thought she was stupid for holding her political beliefs.

How do YOU feel about people who disagree with your political beliefs? How respectful are you of people who dsagree with you?

A common anti-vaxx talking point is that people are quitting their jobs or refusing to go back to work because they don't want to risk suffering from the long term health effectiveness of the vaccine. However, there are always 2 sides to every story and what I don't see people talking about is how many individuals are now willing to go back to work because they have to worry less about contracting the virus. There has been a lot of rhetoric about how we could have preserved the economy by isolating the vulnerable. Well, first of all this is BS because the virus is still more than capable of incapacitating healthy adults (i. e. making them incapable of working) but despite this fascistic "us versus them" mentality anti-vaxxers exhibit, the vulnerable aren't a negligible fraction of the population and keeping them isolated will have an adverse impact on the economy. And as for "lasting side affects" it's currently estimated that 1 in 4 people who are infected with coronavirus will have long term health impacts and hot having to worry about that will make people less apprehensive about going back to work.

Vaccine mandates don't "violate bodily autonomy", they protect bodily autonomy by preventing individuals from violating said autonomy by spreading deadly pathogens to them.

Some of these moons are major players in the news for extraterrestrial life. NASA is spending billions of dollars to find life on these moons. Not on their surface but in their below surface ocean!!

Our test scores keep falling behind other countries. Not because of funding. We spend the most for education. It’s because the curriculum has gotten away from the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic and has become more political such as introducing CRT

I believe this 100%

It takes a weak sad pathetic individual to blame the opposite gender for all of their problems.

I would say mostly B but some of A.

a lot of reactionaries say it's patronizing to black people for the left to say black people can't become as prosperous as white people on their own. Well it's not that we don't think that black people can't "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps", it's that we realize that the government gave out a lot more bootstraps to pull themselves up by to white people (i. e. homestead and federal housing act) than black people. So for white people to say that black people should lift themselves up by their own bootstraps like they did is just pretentiousness.

*But, but, but my ancestors came here from Europe and didn't get squat from the government but they still lived the American dream.
-And there were people born into slavery who became millionaires but we're talking about the systemic problem, not why individuals don't succeed.

*But, but but Asian Americans faced discrimination but they're more successful than white people because they overcame it.
-They overcame the racist immigration quotas that only allowed the most well to do families to move here (i. e. there's a sampling bias).