Started out debating but is now a tiresome troll.
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Which is just why the libs have been a fixture at the bottom for all my life.
See who else pops up but not confident!
The Greens lost me some years ago.
Took a test drive of a BYDâs car a while back. It was really good. I donât know how to benchmark it against a Tesla as Itâs not available here(probably a good thing).
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You are not paying attention if you believe this.
The Democratic Party is polling at its highest negatives in history in part because it is obsessed with identity politics.
Many of the Democratsâ economic politics are actually quite popular. But the party has come to be seen as one of identity first.
The average Democrat is a pretty normal person. The average Democratic activist is way way to the left of the American population. And the leadership of the Democratic Party is beholden to its activist class.
The best thing a Democratic candidate can do at the state and national level is to tell its activist class to pound sand.
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Feel free to refute anything Iâve said.
Iâve lived in Canada, the UK and the US, and I travel a lot internationally. My impression is the average foreigner has little understanding of American politics, or at least they think they know more than they actually do, because they view American politics through their own national lens.
I grew up in Canada. No country knows America better than Canada. And even Canadians fundamentally misunderstand the American people.
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This is incorrect on social policy. The American left in the Democratic Party is obsessed with identity politics, far more so than anywhere else Iâve seen.
The US is now rethinking the whole trans issue, with people coming to believe it went too far with kids, and is now looking to dial it back somewhat and looking to Europe as a guide.
What is the point?
People have done so, repeatedly, and you have ignored the points they have made to regurgitate the usual bullshit and far-right memes.
Youâre up your own arse if you think youâre in any way close to the left at all.
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Iâm not left. I never said I was. I said I voted for the Democrats. In an American context, Iâm probably center left on social issues because Iâm more libertarian than conservative.
People who look at the world through a political prism have a hard time understanding this because they have a hard time understanding that ideology isnât always the driving factor of how someone votes.
This I agree with when it comes to the US. I know family, friends, acquaintances in the US who are politically more in alignment with Democrat positions but voted Republican because they hoped
their tax burden would be lower.
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I think there is a great amount of truth in this. It can also apply to the politics of any country when viewed from afar. I suppose the difference is that American politics is featured far more heavily in other countries than even the politics of neighbouring countries.
Iâd be interested to see what the split in news coverage is in the UK for American politics compared to Irish, French, German etc.
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We are all so steeped in US culture and affected by decisions made in Washington that their politics is much more present in our lives than that of other countries. I live in Germany and Australia and I know the names of far more US politicians than politicians from either of those countries.
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As a someone born in Canada, the narrative that I grew up with was that Canada was a more caring society and America was much more dog-eat-dog. There is some truth to that, but what I realized when I came down here is that Americans really like their social programs! For instance, people get paid more from Social Security than the Canada Pension Plan, and by a big amount. Same with Medicare, which all Americans are eligible when they turn 65. It surprised me to learn that the government pays about 45% of all healthcare spending in the US, which was much more than I thought, while itâs 75% in Canada, which is less than I thought.
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One other thing that will surprise most foreigners is that about two-thirds of Americans, including half of Republicans, think the rich should pay more taxes. They themselves donât want to pay more taxes but they think the rich should pay more. That polling has been consistent for years.
I remember in 2016 thinking Bernie Sanders had a real shot at winning the Presidency. My Republican friends thought he had no chance but I wasnât sure. A lot of the anger at the Establishment Trump captured was also being channeled through Bernie. The number of people supportive of both Trump and Bernie back then was surprisingly high.
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I thought it was pretty universal that everyone thinks everyone else should pay more tax.
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Itâs rarely ever the case. But in your zeal to rush in and contribute your tuppence worth you completely glossed over the conversation thatâs taken place over the past few hundred posts about precisely that, nor the other posts in the other, dedicated thread.
You have constantly insisted on your interpretation being correct, despite the evidence against it. You keep banging on and on about transgender athletes in womenâs sport, but fail to realise that it wasnât about that. It was about the vibe, successfully pushed, not through any action of the Democrats themselves, but the constant propaganda machine of the Republicans. Were you around for Obamacare? Because that was the exact same thing going on.
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That isnât that surprising to anyone who pays attention to politics. Itâs also not exclusive to the United States, being also prevalent in the UK too.
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Youâll find that about taxation everywhere around the world. Itâs not at all surprising.
I agree about Bernie though. Iâm convinced he would have won in 2016. How much better the world would be!
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Who cares about education anyway? Billionaires donât need educated people, they need uneducated serfs.
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You can let other countries educate them and then import them.