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hmm, I see. But to be fair, NATO hasn't been forcing any countries to join them. They've simply had an open-door policy that has merely invited other European countries to join them. Every single nation that has been a part of NATO had joined in because they wanted to and were happy to agree to all of the terms of alliance according to NATO. Ukraine, Finland, and Sweden now want to join NATO on their own accord. Even if NATO took over all of Europe except for Russia I don't think that NATO would want to invade Russia. In fact, the US and NATO are fully aware of the fact that if we did have a conventional war with Russia, then it would very well lead to an apocalyptic nuclear war.

I am still not sure if Putin has been using the idea of NATO encroaching eastward as a pretext or some kind of BS excuse for wanting to invade and takeover Ukraine for his own selfish desires. How do you know for sure that Putin has not tricked you into believing what he’s saying? I mean he already lied about how Ukraine needed to be “de-Nazified.”

Well, of course there is nothing we can do about it, but I just don't understanding why there aren't any check and balances for the entire government of the CCP in order to hold each branch of government accountable and to limit the amount of corruption in China.

Yeah, but it doesn't explain to me why Xi Jinping should be allowed no limits to his power.

Why did the CCP allow Xi Jinping to have absolute power?! Who will be able to hold him accountable or keep him in check?

Weak?! Ha! Russia now doesn't even a chance to take on the US, let alone all of NATO! Russia has completely humiliated itself by struggling to win this war. This was supposed to be a piece of cake for them. Instead, his own plan completely backfired on him and his people. After this war ends, Russia's military will by far become even weaker than China's by far and its economy will become so weak that it might die in the foreseeable future.

I agree with that.

But aren't the other political elites worried that Putin has become a tyrant? Why don't the courts in Russia and the Russian Federal Power make it so that there is a separation of powers throughout the entire government? I know that Putin has only paid lip service to his people about democracy and freedom of speech in his country, but why doesn't he at least have enough honor and dignity to keep his word about democracy and freedom of the speech in Russia? Besides, Putin has already been failing miserably with this war in many dimensions for well over a year now. If the Kremlin let's this keep going on, then Russia will become a dying dump with 100+ million of good Russian people suffering through a profound economic depression that will probably be worse than the Great Depression was. By the end of this war virtually no Russian citizen will have any real sovereignty anymore.

I thought that most Russian citizens don't like the war because of how much it is destroying their financial lives and the lives of many family members and relatives of theirs who live in Ukraine.

In his opinion, casual sex leads to unintended negative consequences. Then again, I am not sure that is entirely true. I wonder if he is speaking from his own political and religious biases.

How do we know for sure that the majority of Russians truly support the war or are just approving it out of fear of being imprisoned or killed by the Kremlin?

But most Russian citizens are approving his invasion only because they are afraid of defying him or disapproving him.

That’s a good question. Why was that?

Building a Great Wall along the border won’t work because immigrants can easily dig underneath and can fly over or climb over. Plus, it’s way too expensive. Besides, Trump was only able to get about 2% of the “wall” done during his time as president. So, I don’t see how building this wall would work in reality. Also, I think that having a wall there would discourage immigrants with work visas from coming into the country. That’s in and of itself would exacerbate the labor shortage problem we’ve been having since Trump became president, thereby jeopardizing our economy.

What exactly is the political stance of a healthy conservative individual? Is it someone whose political views are that of a moderate conservative?

Bush 2 and McConnell no because of how far to the right they got or because of their war crimes? You know Reagan ironically passed a few relatively liberal laws such as some kind of gun control bill, immigration reform, and raised the taxes on the rich for COLA. He also didn't want to largely repeal laws that the New Deal Democrats passed during the FDR era and mid 1900s. Eisenhower in the 50s, Gerald Ford, and the Rockefeller Republican would actually definitely be considered as examples of healthy conservatives in US history.

Right, I understand what you're saying. Would you say that Reagan or Bush 1 and 2 were also healthy conservatives despite never having been moderate Republicans? Or did they represent more of the extreme and toxic kind of conservatism? What about Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy? lol

Is what Leo said about having enough wealth and education in order to become stage Green inconsistent with what he's also said about how rich and successful people including those are highly educated as being stuck in stage Orange?

That is why more and more top universities and colleges have been dropping the requirements for SATs or ACTs. but why do a lot of gifted children generally score high on the SATs?

I think that most economists including those who are centrists and liberals have been skeptical about UBI being a good idea.

Well, you know how Republicans and conservatives talk about how we need to cut down on all entitlement programs because we don’t want people to have an entitlement mentality. Plus, they keep bringing up how the Dems’ reckless federal spending has cause too many Americans to not look for job and just stay home. Joe Manchin even said that parents who get child tax credits use it to buy recreational drugs. Also, don’t forget the racist dog whistle Reagan used to win over the angry white men, “She has 80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards and is collecting veterans' benefits on four non-existing deceased husbands. And she's collecting Social Security on her cards. She's got Medicaid, getting food stamps, and she is collecting welfare under each of her names. Her tax-free cash income alone is over $150,000.”

Even though most young voters are liberal and therefore most of them vote for Democrats, people generally tend to become more conservative than the other way around as they grow older. So, does that mean that most young liberals in the US will become conservative and therefore end up voting for Republicans by the time they around 45 years or older?

Okay, so it’s not like young liberals as a collective aren’t going to really support policies or positions that are very conservative and reactionary such as tax cuts, deregulation, cutting down on government spending, denying the existence of climate change, not believing in the need for us to transition to renewable energy, limiting immigration, etc.

Over past several years, a sizable amount of Americans have become more and more angry about not being paid as much as they deserve and not being able to afford good housing, good education, and access to healthcare and necessary prescription drugs for themselves and their families. Yet, most Americans have not been seriously demanded the government to demand for more government policies that would greatly reduce the unjust economic inequality in our country. Here's a good article why most Americans haven't been angry enough to in this country even though: https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Pathways_Presidential_Anger.pdf Is there any hope that one day the liberals and progressives will ever be able to reverse all of this economic inequality in our country in any of our lifetimes?

Not the Hodgetwins!!!!