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Anonymous wrote:It’s always been sad in the US. We are overworked. You go to Europe and they have month long vacations for 4-6 weeks during the summer.

My current goal is to move to Europe.

Anonymous wrote:It’s always been sad in the US. We are overworked. You go to Europe and they have month long vacations for 4-6 weeks during the summer.

Anonymous wrote:It’s always been sad in the US. We are overworked. You go to Europe and they have month long vacations for 4-6 weeks during the summer.

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Anonymous wrote:The game in the U.S. is to stir hate and discontent to the point where nothing gets done.

I can only give one piece of advice. Go to other countries, walk around and observe. Don't go with a tour group. Get out and see the people, take in their news and views.

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Stirring hate and discontent is absolutely the winning strategy for our major political parties. Well crafted political messaging schemes being spread through tainted media sources has conned 95% of the American electorate into thinking their fellow Americans on the other "side" of the political spectrum are their sworn enemies who no longer share a common bond. Hate and division trigger blind voter loyalty and bring in more cash to fund political campaign efforts than the simple political ideological differences that have been the backbone of our two-party political system for 225 years.

The influence of money in politics is the greatest long term threat to our democracy and our true enemies are the mega donors of our two parties. It's past time for us all to step out of our political bubbles long enough to see this big picture for what it is. We, the American people, aren't as divided as we've been brainwashed to believe.

I agree it goes back to the end of the New Deal when Democrats decided to stir the race bucket rather than continue New Deal policies. The Democratic coalition ended because the New Deal was built on a contradiction: uniting segregationist Southern whites with Northern liberals, labor, and minorities. Once civil rights became unavoidable, that bargain collapsed. Meanwhile, structural economic shifts (decline of unions, globalization, capital flight) and the Republican counter-offensive blocked further expansion of New Deal–style reforms. By the 1990s, Democrats had largely abandoned the redistributive economic program in favor of market-friendly policies, leaving the New Deal legacy as a permanent floor (Social Security, Medicare) but not a growing project.

So Democrats will continue to push race baiting over any actual progressive ideals.

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Anonymous wrote:I spent time travelling this summer around the good old US of A. And man, was it depressing. Everyone in their own world, jobless or working too many jobs because one job doesn’t pay great. People cutting way back. A general apathy and hopelessness for the future. People now talking about AI taking jobs which is interesting because the blame used to be immigrants. The feeling that God has failed them and that we are still heading in the wrong direction. It will never be the same I guess. The reality of everything is in front of us. The blinders are off. And when I spoke with people it seemed that most people were just giving up. Anyone else traveling around and seeing or hearing any of this?

Since March I’ve been to Paris, Dublin, Dallas, NYC, Chicago, OBX and Cape Cod. I saw none of what you describe above. Do you travel alone? I’ve never had the time or inclination to delve into the mental and financial health of complete strangers. I most definitely wouldn’t be able to discern the spending habits of the people that inhabit the places I’ve been. It sounds like you’re staying in homeless shelters.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The game in the U.S. is to stir hate and discontent to the point where nothing gets done.

I can only give one piece of advice. Go to other countries, walk around and observe. Don't go with a tour group. Get out and see the people, take in their news and views.

+1

Stirring hate and discontent is absolutely the winning strategy for our major political parties. Well crafted political messaging schemes being spread through tainted media sources has conned 95% of the American electorate into thinking their fellow Americans on the other "side" of the political spectrum are their sworn enemies who no longer share a common bond. Hate and division trigger blind voter loyalty and bring in more cash to fund political campaign efforts than the simple political ideological differences that have been the backbone of our two-party political system for 225 years.

The influence of money in politics is the greatest long term threat to our democracy and our true enemies are the mega donors of our two parties. It's past time for us all to step out of our political bubbles long enough to see this big picture for what it is. We, the American people, aren't as divided as we've been brainwashed to believe.

Anonymous wrote:From what I see, Magnifico MAGA Members are partying like it is 1999. They are having their cake and eating it too, along with a few other cliches.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump supporters have just seemed to literally lose their minds and don't care if they drive the US into the ground. Seems like they are determined to turn us into a third world country with a non working democracy.

It is so sad, so preventable, but here we are .

It’s an entire party made up of damaged people. However, they only represent about 30% of eligible voters. If we can keep Trump from cheating (and that’s a big if) we should easily turn this ship around.

It's a party with a few nut jobs, a few Russian moles,and a lot of people with incriminating evidence against them that the moles have revealed to them; that's the only explanation for why they are such slaves to this madness.

Only Democrats are Americans. Republicans are nutjobs and russians. Why can’t a democrat always be president? That’s how our founding fathers intended.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump supporters have just seemed to literally lose their minds and don't care if they drive the US into the ground. Seems like they are determined to turn us into a third world country with a non working democracy.

It is so sad, so preventable, but here we are .

It’s an entire party made up of damaged people. However, they only represent about 30% of eligible voters. If we can keep Trump from cheating (and that’s a big if) we should easily turn this ship around.

It's a party with a few nut jobs, a few Russian moles,and a lot of people with incriminating evidence against them that the moles have revealed to them; that's the only explanation for why they are such slaves to this madness.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump supporters have just seemed to literally lose their minds and don't care if they drive the US into the ground. Seems like they are determined to turn us into a third world country with a non working democracy.

It is so sad, so preventable, but here we are .

It’s an entire party made up of damaged people. However, they only represent about 30% of eligible voters. If we can keep Trump from cheating (and that’s a big if) we should easily turn this ship around.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I spent time travelling this summer around the good old US of A. And man, was it depressing. Everyone in their own world, jobless or working too many jobs because one job doesn’t pay great. People cutting way back. A general apathy and hopelessness for the future. People now talking about AI taking jobs which is interesting because the blame used to be immigrants. The feeling that God has failed them and that we are still heading in the wrong direction. It will never be the same I guess. The reality of everything is in front of us. The blinders are off. And when I spoke with people it seemed that most people were just giving up. Anyone else traveling around and seeing or hearing any of this?

Since March I’ve been to Paris, Dublin, Dallas, NYC, Chicago, OBX and Cape Cod. I saw none of what you describe above. Do you travel alone? I’ve never had the time or inclination to delve into the mental and financial health of complete strangers. I most definitely wouldn’t be able to discern the spending habits of the people that inhabit the places I’ve been. It sounds like you’re staying in homeless shelters.