Hardkill

Arguably in the grand scheme of things, but do you think that the 40+ years of neoliberalism and conservative politics our country has been experiencing has significantly slowed down much needed progress in structural changes to the economy and civil rights in the US compared to say during the early 1900s progressive era or the 40 years of the extended new deal era/modern liberalism during the mid 1900s?

I hope one day that the everyday people will one march over to properties of the 1% of rich people in this country and steal all of their money.

Extra careful for what? I wonder why the CA state legislatures didn't include provisions that would have good regulations for it? Maybe they didn't seriously want it to pass?

Do you think he did that because he's making a serious run president in case Biden drops out of the race 2024 or for a future presidential run and doesn't want to come off as being too far to the left for the general population of the whole country? Or was it because of some of his corporate donors and the police force who put too much pressure on him not to sign it into law?

Sadly, Newsom had vetoed the bill. He said that even though he supports "'new opportunities to address mental health through psychedelic medicines like those addressed in this bill,' the state needs to establish regulations for the use of these substances before they are legalized." “California should immediately begin work to set up regulated treatment guidelines — replete with dosing information, therapeutic guidelines, rules to prevent against exploitation during guided treatments, and medical clearance of no underlying psychoses. Unfortunately, this bill would decriminalize possession prior to these guidelines going into place, and I cannot sign it,” Newsom said in his veto statement. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-07/gavin-newsom-psychedelics-magic-mushrooms-sb-58-veto-drugs-california

But he did erode his country's democracy:

While I don't like encroachment of Israel on Gaza, the leaders of Hamas have never had any genuine interest in negotiating any real peace treaties with Israel.

Since around the early 2000s the areas of the country that have voted Democratic have been those that are urban, coastal, diverse, more secular and more well-educated. Florida is on the coast, has big cities, is one of the 7 most diverse states in the country, and has numerous well-educated and non-religious people throughout the entire state. I get that the state has now recently become a solid red state because of what has happened since 2016 including Trumpism, Ron DeSantis, the growing number of latin immigrants who moved there from countries that had failed socialist regimes, the growing number of old white retirees having moved to the states, and the Democratic party's poor level of organization down there. But given its demographics isn't it still possible for the state to turn solid blue some day in the future?

The inflation rate in the US has been back to a relatively normal level since about a few months ago and wage growth has been outpacing the rate of inflation for the vast majority of Americans for over 5 month now. In fact, some top economists have argued that real wages are now significantly higher than they were before the pandemic. What's really going on now is that the cumulative inflation over the past 2 to 3 years hasn't come down yet. That means that even though wages of everyday Americans has been growing significantly faster than the rate of inflation for 5 months now, it still hasn't yet compensated for the 2+ years of inflation that did outpace the wage growth of most Americans. Economists say that from here on out most Americans will have completely recovered their purchasing power sometime by end of next year as wage growth keeps outpacing the rate of inflation.

If progressives including AOC and Sanders have won big elections with campaigns funded by only small dollar donations. So, why don't Corporate Democrats do the same and stop taking big dollar donations from the wealthy people and corporations?

huh?

Yeah, but if Bernie didn't have a money problem in 2016 or 2020 with regard to getting out his message and an increasing amount of progressives have been winning big congressional races in recent years without campaign contributions from corporations and wealthy donors, then do moderate and conservative Dem candidates really need big money donations from corporate lobbyists and PACs to win elections?

Why do moderate and conservative Democrats still take PAC money and big lobbyist money unlike the progressives politicians?

I really hope this backfires on the GOP for 2024.

First time in US history this has ever happened before! The GOP have reached a whole new level of insanity. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/matt-gaetz-kevin-mccarthy-house-speakership-10-03-23/index.html

Then do you think that it might be for Biden to step aside and allow a new young and strong candidate such as Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, or Wes Moore to run as the Democratic nominee for president to save our country instead of having the whole country on pin on needles? (sigh).....what would Obama do?

I just found a recent vid that gave clear reasons on why Florida turned red:

I used to think that maybe there was some truth about the idea that the 1950s or 1960s being the "good old days," but now I believe that to be largely a myth. I now get that things in recent times are still way better overall than they were during the 50s, 60s, or 70s, even though the country used to be so much more united and the economic system used to be so much more fair for the bottom 90-something percent of Americans during the mid 1900s than it has been since the early 2000s. However, my parents, who lived through the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s decade, 2010s, and so on, don't think that things have necessarily gotten better for the country overall since the 80s to 90s. I mean they've acknowledged that things have now been definitely much better for racial minorities, women, and members lgbtq+ community in America than during the 80s, 90s, or early 2000s with regard to social justice, civil rights, and school/job opportunities. However, they are aware of how much worse off things have been for racial minorities, women, members of the lgbtq+ community, and young people when it come to economic/financial issues since the 80s to 90s such owning a home, being able to afford to go to a college/university, making enough of a comfortable living, etc. Also, my parents never worried about the worsening climate change problems until about the 2010s. Plus, they said that never in their lifetimes had there ever been anyone in our country who was as dangerous to our country's democracy as Trump has been. Therefore, my parents see it as things perhaps haven't really gotten better overall in our country, but that it's been more like a trade-off since the 80s to 90s. In fact, they believe that the 80s and 90s were still the best decades they ever lived through because of the fact that during those decades peace, prosperity, optimism, and overall level of fairness was at its peak in America and throughout the whole world. What do you guys think?

Oh, I see. I think that makes things more clear to me now. Thanks

I don't think culture matters that much. Women biologically get emotionally attached to a guy after sex, regardless. At least I would think that is the case.

Even if the guy was able to emotionally connect with her, stimulate her emotions, and the sex was good she still wouldn't want to see him again?

Right, but why is that? Sex is still sex and a girl's main objective is to find a man who will commit to her. So, why can't a girl you slept with from a night club not get attached to you?

If girls get invested in a guy they just had sex with, then why do some girls never respond back to you ever again even after you had good sex with her?

Despite the fact that girls generally want to be perceived by others as having a low body count, why do some girls these days not care about telling a lot of other people how many guys they slept with, even if they say they slept with 10-20+ guys? https://www.actualized.org/forum/forum/3-dating-sexuality-relationships-family/?do=add