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Ah ok. So, everything I said was in my first post are some reasons of the reasons why. I asked you because I don’t believe you ever talked specifically about why that used to be the case. That’s why I was wondering if you had your own take on that. There has be some way to rebuild that whole New Deal coalition. Otherwise, how will Democrats ever be able to win back control of the Senate in Congress ever again let alone win back large majorities in both chambers of Congress like with the New Deal coalition?

I understand that, but again, why do you think that they used to vote so much more for candidates and parties that were truly for their economic interests during the 1900s like with the Square Deal, the New Freedom, New Deal, the Great Society, or even during the late 1900s? How do you explain why the vast majority of Americans in South and Rural America used to be long time FDR Democrats? Is it because of the factors I mentioned in my OP?

Obama might not have won in either 2008 or 2012 if the toxic cloud of right-wing and anti-mainstream media outlets had been as dense and pervasive back then as it has become in recent years.

Very well then.... I'll respect that. I was just trying to warn others on here as a concerned citizen of America and I still think that there needs to be a much greater discussion about the future.

I hope I am wrong for everyone's sake.

I am sorry, but I don't understand. You even said yourself that this is going to be most dangerous administration ever in US History. All of the guardrails will be gone. If Trump's second presidency was going to be just like another traditional conservative Republican's presidency like that of Reagan, HW Bush, W Bush, or even Nixon then yeah all of my hysteria would be ridiculously overblown. Our country has never had someone as horrifying as Trump is for a president and you know it. God knows what he will truly be capable of now that he will be able to actually order a Navy Seal team to shoot any of his enemies for no good reason without any impunity at all because he now has absolute immunity for all "official acts" as President of the United States.

I am telling it as honestly as I can. We gotta prepare for the worst.

Trump will be able to run the country more as a police state like Putin in Russia has and a lot of white cops in the country will feel a lot more emboldened to engage in even more police brutality than ever before.

Calling out all of Trump and MAGA's crimes and corruption has no doubt become more crucial than ever before. However, aren't you concerned that when Trump becomes president again, he and MAGA might retaliate against you and everyone else on here for posting threads like this, given the unprecedented power Trump will have and their very serious threats to suppress freedom of speech and the press all over the country? Or will we be safe from them as long as we refrain from making any reckless or threatening statements, such as death threats, against them?

Given the increasing expense of living in California, I might need to move to a red state like Texas, where the cost of living is of course significantly lower. However, blue states have consistently demonstrated better outcomes in terms of health, wealth, safety, education, and economic productivity. Most blue states also have more equitable income state and local tax rates than red states do, believe it or not. California actually has the most equitable income state and local tax rate in the US. https://www.instagram.com/p/CdgZ6KOOGww/?hl=en Texas, in particular, has one of the worst healthcare systems in the country. Furthermore, the state is considered one of the least safe places to live in the United States, largely due to its hyper-permissive gun culture and lax gun laws. Needless to say, the politics in red states are generally less favorable than those in blue states. State laws regarding the rights of non-whites, women, non-Christians, environmental protection, voting rights, and social justice issues are obviously less progressive in red states compared to blue states. Actually, Given Trump and the MAGA Republicans' control of the government trifecta and a conservative supermajority in the US Supreme Court, along with having state-level trifectas in each red state, will these states become very authoritarian over the next four years? How hard is it to live in a red state, especially if you are not a rich white man and don't believe in Christ?

The murder rate in the country probably went down this year even further. Also, the late aughts were a bad time to live in because of the 2008 financial crisis and how angry people were about the War on Terror in the Middle East under Bush. Even during the early 2010s, a lot of people were still suffering from the after-effects of the Great Recession. But whatever.... Dark days are still ahead....

No he is right. It's currently been the lowest since the mid to late 1960s, second only to lower violent crime during the mid to late 2010s. https://jasher.substack.com/p/an-overview-of-us-crime-and-policing https://jasher.substack.com/p/murder-fell-at-the-fastest-pace-ever But right now, it's hard for me to believe that violent crime won't spike during the next several years when our country has become more divided than ever since the antebellum of the Civil War and economic inequality is still at the highest it has been since the eve of the Great Depression. The divisions and economic inequality in our country are only going to continue to get worse and worse in the long run until we have some kind of major crisis that will be able to wake the country up on these problems.

That's true. But for how long will it stay low? I don't see how violent crime in America won't spike to historic levels when America is headed for a new age of capitalist dystopia, especially now that Trump, Musk, and all of the other corporate fascists will be able to run the country as cruel tyrants for the foreseeable future: In the end, there will be so much rage and resentment amongst the people, that millions upon millions of people are going to become mad enough to do something as psycho as what someone like Luigi did times x1000. I wouldn't be surprised if white-collar crime exploded in our country like crazy now that all of the rich and corporate elites of the country will have free reign to do whatever kind of underhanded business scheme they want. The mainstream media is already bending the knee to Trump and all of his cronies. The Fourth Estate is in serious trouble which means we may no longer even have the kind of press we always used to have to hold any of the oligarchs and any MAGA freak accountable. I really hope that this prediction of mine will turn out to be really stupid that I end up embarrassing myself completely and I am sorry for all of my doom posting, but from a rational and realistic perspective, none of this can bode well for the future...

I have a really bad gut feeling that violent crime overall is going to skyrocket during the rest of this decade. We could very well see the kind of bloodbath our country hasn't been since the late 1800s. The fear and rage in this country will become so widespread before you know it.

OP, believe it or not, I lost my virginity when I was 27 and a half years old. I got incredibly frustrated with finding a girlfriend or even finding a girl that I was down to have sex with. I even got rejected hundreds of times before and there were many times I felt so hopeless about it all. But I eventually got my first lay and then got laid with a few more girls. By the time I was 30 years old, I got my very first real girlfriend ever. I tried everything from online dating sites/dating apps to cold approach/warm approach to meeting girls in social circle for years in small cities, which led me to getting countless nos and some yeses. The dating game has really gotten messed since around the beginning of the 2010s because of the rise of the internet, social media, and women becoming more and more capable of being independent. In some ways, it has become more rigged against men. However, it has become easier than ever before to meet all new kinds of women out there. It's crazy, but in this day and age, I feel like you gotta really play the numbers game hard by approaching and asking out as many new women you meet in real life as possible. Also, you gotta play the numbers game even much more so with online dating sites/dating apps by matching with, messaging, and asking out as many new women as possible on those venues. I think it really sucks hard trying to meet new girls when you live in a small or even medium-sized town or city that's not big like Vegas, Phoenix, Chicago, Austin, LA, or NYC. It's so unfair. You especially gotta play the numbers game to the max to get laid with and get in a relationship with attractive women.

To be clear I am talking about mainstream movies and tv series/web series/streaming series that are either PG-13 or R-rated. I understand why it's generally considered too weird or too creepy to watch porn with a friend or a family member of yours, but why is it not a big deal to watch any kind of nude/sex scene in any mainstream film or show with your friends or your family members? For instance, most people who watched GoT have never had a problem watching very racy or borderline pornographic scenes in the series with their buddies. In fact, a lot of times you will get prude-shamed by your friends if they see you coming off as being too uncomfortable with seeing any nude or sex scene with them. Even the times when I've watched some R-rated movies with my parents, my mom has rationalized it as being okay. She's been like "It's okay. They weren't really doing that much..." or "Oh, come on, they didn't show their penis or their vagina...." or "Oh, the sex is not real at all..." So, why is all of that considered normal, but watching porn with friends, siblings, or other members of your family is considered not normal?

The policing is going to get worst during the 4 years, especially for black and brown people.

The Democratic leadership so far hasn't seemed to have learned from any of the mistakes they made that led them to lose in the 2024 election. They also have too many old leaders in Congress and in the DNC that must be replaced by a younger generation of Democratic leaders in their prime such as AOC and Jamie Raskin, who can do a much better job of communicating the Democratic party's platform, ideas, and messages to the country in this day and age. Otherwise, the Democratic party could lose again in more big elections including the 2028 elections. Yet, they are still apparently too stubborn to even make those kinds of changes. Do the corporate Democrats just not care anymore about winning anymore or is it because their fucking selfish donors and their God damn useless Washington elite consultants won't let them?

We all have our favorite mainstream film actors/actresses. Well, since porn is becoming increasingly mainstream, there is not much as much shame with porn as there used to be. So, I might as well ask you all who each of your favorite pornstars are?

Why should I believe you?

If you can tolerate the violence and gore in the show, then it's a really good show to watch. Yeah, I think they really do an excellent job of portraying a kind of dystopian scenario of what could happen if unchecked capitalism keeps running amok, particularly with regard to Big Pharma. I mean, of course, there's no way that scientists and pharmaceutical companies are ever going to be able to create any drugs that will give people superpowers. Obviously not going to happen during this century. However, the show greatly illustrates how a society could go wrong when it doesn't have enough guardrails, loses its democracy, and doesn't seriously consider the long-term consequences of creating a monster like Homelander is.

Yeah, it's a real national tragedy.

I can’t speak for those who are 60+ years old, but as someone who is 36 years old, I really haven’t seen any decline in my ability to learn any new kind of skill. If anything, I feel like in many ways I’ve been able to learn new skills faster. I think it’s because I’ve constantly educated myself and have gained more experience and wisdom as I’ve gotten older.

Substantial government progress often necessitates catastrophic events or widespread hardship because voters tend to be reactive, typically demanding change only after experiencing significant difficulties. So, why hasn't such urgently required transformation in leadership and governance been occurring in impoverished states like West Virginia, Wyoming, Mississippi, Alabama, or Arkansas, where numerous individuals in those regions are struggling very badly in various ways including the economy, infrastructure, and education? For that matter, why hasn't the tremendous suffering in impoverished countries, particularly in many parts of Africa and the Middle East, been enough to catalyze meaningful reforms in leadership and governance, thereby improving the economy, infrastructure, and education of those countries?

That’s partly true. It’s also because of the dominance of right-wing propaganda disinformation machine that unbelievably tricked the majority of voters into believing that Biden/Harris did very little to nothing good for the country. I still think that if Harris was the POTUS for about a year or two then she wouldve been able to better command the attention of the public and communicate all of the accomplishment their party much better than Biden did. Also, enough Americans might’ve gotten used to having a woman of a color be the President of the United States. Btw, we don’t even know for sure if things would’ve been worse had Biden stayed as the Democratic presidential nominee. Anybody who tells you that it would’ve been worse really has no idea. The people could’ve elected him again by deciding “I am not happy with Biden and he really has gotten so old, but at least he’s the same good old white American middle class man named Joe Biden we both are already used to having as our country’s president and he already beat Trump before, which must really mean that Trump can’t ever beat Biden.”