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@VictorB02 With all due respect, we don't want any of your extreme right-wing dogmatic views on any of your posts here in this forum.

According to some polls out there the amount of people in America who support helping Ukraine win the war has been declining significantly. Now, Americans are divided over whether we should continue funding Ukraine for this war. According to University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll with Ipsos, shows that "A plurality of Americans, 46%, said the United States should stay the course in supporting Ukraine for only one to two years, compared with 38% who said the United States should stay the course for as long as it takes. The partisan divide was notable on this issue, with 62% of Republicans wanting to stay the course for one to two years, compared to 51% of Democrats who wanted to stay the course for as long as it takes." https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2023/04/28/americans-show-signs-of-impatience-with-ukraine-war/ Also, it seems that a majority of Republican voters in the US are now opposed to providing weapons and financial support to Ukraine according to an Axios/Ipsos poll. Of course, Trump, Desantis, and other extreme right-wing Republicans in Congress have been vocalization there opposition for supporting Ukraine. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/us/politics/ukraine-republican-skeptics.html Will the Biden administration and Congress eventually be pressured to stop funding Ukraine or will they continue to commit to helping Ukraine for as long as it takes even if undermines there political standing with the public?

But all of the Republican elites have clearly said that if Trump becomes the 2024 Republican nominee for president then they will lose. The RNC I believe is legally able to cancel the nomination of Trump like how Congress is legally able to impeach, convict, and remove a sitting president in office and then can vote to bar him from ever running for president again.

How likely do you think the RNC and GOP establishment will block his nomination at the Republican National convention next year?

Some analysts are saying that this federal indictment and the other new indictments that Trump will probably get might very well be what will cause Trump to not even win the 2024 GOP nominee for president, given how much more serious his criminal charges keep getting. I am personally skeptical of this, because most Republican voters are too dumb, too paranoid, and too brainwashed by all of the extreme right-wing propaganda out there, and love Trump too much that they will never ever believe that Trump is a criminal. Instead, they will keep believing more and more that all of these charges made against are the worse witch hunts ever made on anyone and the most unjust partisan attacks ever made against everything that Republican party has always proudly stood by including American traditions, American Christianity, American Whites, and American exceptionalism. In the minds of a MAGA Republican or even a regular staunch conservative, regardless of whatever your reasons are, if you're not 1000% loyal on Trump and American conservatism, then you are without question a traitor and enemy of America. My dad and my uncle both think that there's a strong chance that the RNC leaders and the GOP elites could decide to intervene by not allowing the GOP convention of delegates to grant Trump the republican nomination for president. I am personally skeptical of that happening because would the Republican establishment even dare to risk their political careers by doing something like that?

Most economists, including all of the ones who are centrists and non-partisan, say that the Trump tax cut was just a lavish gift to the rich and corporations that ballooned the national deficit/debt. Even the top bank CEOs such as Jamie Dimon and even other billionaire businessmen such as Warren Buffett thought the tax was a terrible mistake and that actually the taxes on the rich and corporations should've been raised significantly in order to stabilize the economy, reduce economic inequality, and lower the national debt. The extreme right-wing economists were only ones who supported the tax cut. There's no denying it. Think about it. how does a tax cut in a booming economy help bolster economic growth, when corporations and the wealthy already have way more than enough capital to expand their businesses during a boom? You only do a tax cut when the economic is experiencing a downturn or a recession. Also, how are we ever going to pay back the massive debt our country has without ever raising taxes high enough? Btw, no offense, but former UK PM Truss was ousted after she proposed her dumb tax cut policy. Reagonomics never ever worked. Reagan was only successful because he was lucky enough to inherited an economy that already was going to recover from the early 1980s recession and then end his presidency on a high note.

Here's a great article by Paul Krugman on how Biden and the Democrats have been the ones who are truly creating millions of new good manufacturing jobs in America, while Trump and the Republicans are the ones who are stabbing every working-class voter in the back by creating ZERO new manufacturing jobs. Trump's tariff war policy and his disgusting 2017 tax cut law did jack squat to increase investment and job growth in the manufacturing industry. The manufacturing surge that has been happening in the US since 2022 is due to both the CHIPS act and Inflation Reduction Act that Biden and the Democrats initiated and passed through Congress. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/opinion/manufacturing-biden-trump.html Furthermore, all of these new manufacturing jobs are for producing new high-tech up-to-date semiconductors chips and for accelerating the transition to renewable energy in America. Btw, these new manufacturing jobs don't include the other couple million of new infrastructure jobs that will come from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that Biden and the Democrats initiated and passed into law in late 2021.

How do you explain all of the innocent people who tried the best they could to escape the unfathomable horrors of the holocaust? How about all of those poor souls starving in Africa? Where has God been during such situations? Of course a typical response to that question is that “It’s all part of God’s plan.” thinks that there either is no such thing as God or if there is a God then he/she is truly sadistic and was never on our side.

That's what I've been saying. I think the only three social issues that they should stay left-wing on is ending police brutality on racial minorities, unjust criminal sentencing on blacks and latinos, putting an absolute end to all voter suppression on all racial minorities, and getting major long overdue immigration reform. Addressing inequities between whites and non-whites in America such income inequality, employment disparities, education inequality, housing inequality, redlining, healthcare disparities, and what have you would be addressed by left-wing economics. After all of that, I think that we will have established virtually every kind of civil right, social justice, and equal opportunities that any black and brown person in the US could ever want and need.

Should Harris be running with Biden again 2024 or should it be someone else given how much she has been struggling to be an influential or likable enough VP?

I don't believe in a such a conspiracy theory like that. I sincerely doubt that the Biden administration would've wanted that pipeline destroyed. In fact, I am sure that Biden and everyone in his admin wish that the destruction of the pipeline didn't happen because ever since that happened, the US has been forced to exports a significant amount of oil and natural gas to Europe, thereby having made the inflation problem in our country even worse than it already was after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. Furthermore, Biden and all of the people working under him are not the kind of people who would take any pleasure in seeing any of our European allies suffer economically or suffer in any at all for any reason.

Well, then I don't know why he is trolling me. I mean to be clear, the more I learn about how government, politics, international affairs, economics, business, and finances works in the world the more I realize how complex and nuanced all of it is. The military-industrial complex can't, for the sake of constantly making profits, just always force our government to order our military to go to war with another country or even coerce the government to send military equipment and other kinds of foreign to our foreign allies. However, they a lot of times are able to pressure our political leaders in doing so depending what the circumstances are. One reason does have to do with the US wanting/needing to bolster our economy overall, but there are several other reasons such as those pertaining to geopolitical issues, ideological situations, etc.

What are you talking about? How is what I just said a conspiracy theory? The US military-industrial complex is a massive business for our country and whether we like it or not it is still an essential part of the US economy.

Ahh, So, if Ukraine can successfully win this war in some way, then America could make a serious profit off this war, correct?

What if they have the same level of state interference they have but transition towards having the level of democracy and freedom that Europeans have?

Why is some state interference in business not a great thing there? Isn't what they are doing working? Plus, isn't better than the government being laissez faire about their economy? Plus, China already has some some things that the US doesn't even have such as high speed rails throughout the whole country, much greater funding for all kinds of public works and public schools, universal health care, forcing all citizens to get vaccinated and wear masks during COVID emergencies, COVID price controls, limiting children from wasting so much time on video/computer games, high trust in all of their institutions, and more.

I really don't see how he can win the 2024 primary. He's already deemed by too many Republican voters as a traitorous establishment GOP politician, especially after what happened with the Jan 6 event.

But Biden needs to get out there more to sell himself a lot more. He so far hasn't been doing nearly as many interviews as Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Trump did during their first 2 and a half years of their presidencies. Furthermore, most Americans are still not aware of all of the tremendous accomplishments Biden has made. I wonder why VP Harris hasn't been able to do enough to promote the Biden administration.

That's why I don't get why there is a sizable amount of Americans who wants us to stop funding Ukraine for this war. We have way more than enough aid available for the Ukranians and no American soldier or US citizen is getting hurt by this at all.

It really does seem to be the case that if progressives want the level of transformation they seek for our country then we really are going to need have: 1. The supermajorities of liberals/progressives that presidents TR, WW, FDR, and FBJ had. 2. Much greater political bipartisanship consensus and unified political climate that TR, WW, FDR, and FBJ had. 3. Historic levels of violence in our country like in the Civil War, Gilded Age, Great Depression, and Civil Rights movement. 4. Extremely powerful nonviolent mass protests and civil disobedience like the Civil Rights movement or Abolition movement. 5. Liberal/progressive media outlets with political influence that rivals or surpasses all of the right-wing echo-chambers in America. Plus, for extra push, we could use another brilliant and charismatic liberal/progressive president who is not too deep in the pockets of their corporate donors. With the BLM riots, abnormal levels of mass shootings, occasional racial unrest, growing anger and resentment over the growing economic inequality problem in our country, increasing amount of calls for tackling climate change, it really is looking more and more like widespread riots in America are inevitable. I wonder how we should all prepare for that.

I mean that in the US, third party votes are a complete waste of votes. They cannot be used to add on to any other major party ticket, not like in a multi-party system? Now, if enough democrats, liberals, poor, working class, and people of racial minorities created a nationwide movement on stopping the rich and corporations from stealing endless amounts of money then that would probably generate enough pressure on Congress, the presidency, governors, state legislatures, and the courts to enact policies much needed liberal/progressive legislation for the country.

What Leo said below are key factors to choosing the right side. Also, the more spirally developed the person or party is the wiser and more sophisticated they are. There is a reason why there are more intelligent and more compassionate people per capita in the higher spiral stages of the spiral than in the lower spiral stages.

Does that mean that no amount of Americans who are against funding this war will be able to dissuade the government from continuing to fund Ukraine?

That's really tragic.

Yeah, that's generally true. Although, that didn't seem to be the case with FDR who was president for 12 years followed by his Democratic VP Harry Truman for another 8 years. Also, most people apparently weren't tired of 8 of years Ronald Reagan as presidency and his Reagonomics, which is why his VP H.W. Bush got elected in a true landslide and immediately succeeded Reagan. If you go even way back to the early 1900s, after Teddy Roosevelt was president for 8 years, Taft, who was TR's Secretary of War, succeeded him as the next Republican POTUS. So, why did such instance of multiple successive terms in a row for the Democratic Party or Republican Party respectively happen in US history? In fact, why do Republicans and conservatives even still to this day still idolize Reagan as their messiah more than 34 years after he left office? Even with Obama and Clinton, who were two charismatic and successful Democratic presidents, most Democrats and liberals in America have never even worshipped those as saviors or even recognize them as one of or two of the greatest presidents to the extent that Republicans and conservatives have with Reagan. Is it because TR, FDR, and Reagan were the most transformational presidents ever since 1900, whereas Obama and Clinton and the rest of the presidents since 1900 were not?