Hardkill

Wow! It's amazing that the legalization of psychedelics is really beginning to happen in the US.

Was one reason why Trump won was because people were tired of 8 years of Obama?

I am sure that women feel that men are often a burden on them. lol I get that women can really feel like a pain in the ass a lot of times and men have of course become increasingly insecure about their power and status in the world with the continuing rise of feminism in the world. Honestly, a lot of days, I get very irritated and frustrated with women and sometimes get insecure about my power and place in the world as a man. But according to history, even though there have undoubtedly been more men than women who have made positive contributions and constructed all kinds of great new things for the world, there have also been undeniably more men than women who have committed atrocities and destroyed countless things throughout the whole world. There have always been way more men than women in history who have done all kind of monstrous acts such as excessive violence, physical and verbal abuse, assault, rape, murder, genocide, annihilate civilizations, join or lead a racist/hate organization, join or lead an extreme right-wing organization or a violent extreme left-wing organization, join or lead a criminal gang or scummy cartel, sell illegal drugs or illegal arms, steal money, commit fraud, evade taxes, contribute and facilitate corporate greed, gamble away money and other resources that belong to or that was supposed to be for their whole family and/or relatives, and so on and so forth. There are still more women who have been murdered or at the very at least whose lives have been ruined by horrible men than vice versa. Plus, there must be a reason why even in developed country such as the US approx. 9 out 10 prisoners are men.

So, then why are progressives like Bernie bothering to fight like hell for greatly increasing labor power in the US?

Ohhh...... what about labor unions? Progressives such as Chomsky, Bernie, Warren and AOC and top economists talk about the great urgency for much greater labor power than we have today. Is there any hope that labor unions in the US will ever regain the size and power they had in the early to mid 1900s?

Well, I don't know what they minimum wage is in the Uk in the UK or in any other European country, but the federal minimum wage here in the US is 7 dollars an hour. Now, employees in the East Coast, West Coast, Northern States, and some Midwest states such as Illinois do have state laws that have made the minimum wage in each of their states be about 11 to 15 dollars an hour. Also, some big banks like Bank of America or JP Morgan Chase actually have made their minimum wage policy to be 20 dollars per hours and have committed to increasing it to 25 dollars per hour eventually. However, most employees in the Southern states, states in middle America, and several areas of rural America have been paid unacceptably low minimum wages ranging from about 7 to 9 dollars per hour. If you visited any of the states including Mississippi, Louisiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Indiana, Texas, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota you would meet tons and tons of people suffering from either homelessness or not being able to make rent or living paycheck-to-paycheck.

When do you think there will be widespread labor strikes for higher pay like what happened in the 1800s?

I think that most corporations have been using that excuse too many times. Too many people out there are getting very angry about being able to barely survive while the fat cats at the top keep stuffing their pockets with way too much money for themselves. Corporations are indeed essential for every society, but they must all be held accountable much more than they have been.

How about an honorable, hard working, successful conservative like Mitt Romney vs. a hippie who is a lazy loser and has impractical ideas? Would the hippie still be more mentally developed than a Romney-like conservative?

But aren't there several millions of poor, working class people, and middle class in the country who are really getting fed up with not being paid a living wage? Do you think that there will be widespread angry labor strikes within the foreseeable like what happened during the Gilded age?

I agree. All big companies should pay their employees a living minimum wage.

Well, I am kinda disappointed that he is running, but most people were already expecting that he would. He actually has already stumbled out of a gate with his "disastrous" start of his campaign on twitter. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/24/1178070208/twitter-glitches-mar-ron-desantis-debut-as-presidential-candidate

In case any of you wondering if or worried about Tucker Carlson possibly running for president in 2024, his lawyer seems to have made it clear that Tucker is not interested in doing so. His lawyer has already a sent cease and desist letter to a PAC that has already been trying very hard to convince him to run for president in 2024: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-2024-race_n_646c3053e4b0355739387b23 https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-hits-super-pac-trying-to-draft-him-into-2024-race-with-legal-complaint https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/22/tucker-carlson-shuts-down-draft-tucker-pac-2024-ta/ I think that's somewhat a relief for us for 2024 given that his appeal over Republican and conservatives, especially those at the far right, throughout the whole country has been very much on par with Trump's, but unlike Trump is still well in his prime and comes off as a bit more disciplined, a little bit smarter, less crude, and less chaotic than Trump. Of course it's always still possible that he might make a run in 2028.

Dude, you're getting into the territory of conspiracy theories. What proof do you have that Trump was able to win the GOP nomination by cutting a lot of deals with the RNC? Also, the RNC and the Republican establishment has always thought since 2016 that Trump will one ruin the Republican Party. Biden and the Democrats in Congress didn't have the votes in the Senate to fully bring back all of the laws that were removed from Trump.

Absolutely, there should be barriers to who should be allowed to run for president. It should only be those who are wise, compassionate, moderate, temperate, push for good practical reforms, have solid experience and competence in governance, well educated, well read, sound intelligent, and haven’t been involved in any serious wrongdoing. Presidents Washington, Jefferson, maybe Jackson, Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Harrison, McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK/LBJ, Obama, and Biden had all of the abovementioned qualities and that’s why they were all totally qualified for the job of being president went down in history as being the presidents ever in US history. The consensus amongst all top historians and political experts in the US is that Trump is one of the six worst president ever in us history. Trump furthermore has been the only US president ever who threatened to destroy our democracy. Osho was right when he said that democracy often results in "rule by the retarded for the retarded....." and that what we really need is ruling based on meritocracy. If you need serious medical help then why would you consult someone who did not earn a medical degree and a medical license to practice medicine, let alone doesn't have sufficient experience with competently diagnosing, treating, and curing a patient's illness? What if you are in trouble with the law? Wouldn't you hire a lawyer who has a law degree, license to practice law, competence and skill in legal matters, and has been successful with representing clients?

I already told you some of my reasons in my OP. Additionally, I really think that the fact that anyone in the US allowing practically ANYONE born in America and is over the age of 35 year to run for president, even if you don't have ANY experience at all in serving in the government as a state level, or at the federal level, or even in the military has been a terrible mistake. Even if have a history of having been an incompetent manager of a business with much less than honorable circumstances like Trump you can still be elected president. Even, if you have only had 5 years of working for the US government as an incompetent governor of a state, was a party boy who wasn't a great student in college or even in grad school, but just got by because you had a dad who paid your way through school like W. Bush you can still be elected president. You spread all kinds of dangerous conspiracy theories, particularly those from the right-wing, as a hyper-materialistic, narcissistic anchor for decades on Fox News like Tucker Carlson? No problem. You can be the next president of the United States if you are as popular, as charismatic, and as a well-spoken as Tucker Carlson. If like Reagan, you only graduated high school and a mediocre college as a C average student, were a Hollywood actor who played in a dumb comedy movie called Bedtime for Bonzo, and have only 8 years of working for the US government as a mediocre governor of a state? Not a problem at all, if like Reagan, you are a once in a generation charismatic individual who is able to pull off an Oscar winning performance as a presidential candidate, you can become one of the most iconic US presidents ever. I mean look at what happened when Trump got elected. He became one of if not the worst president ever in US history. He also will go down in history as the most undignified and the most dangerous president we've ever had. Reagan and Bush also ruined our country for the long-run.

Well, he's made it clear that he's not gonna in 2024, and by the time 2028 happens, he will be about 86 years old. I sincerely doubt that 4 and a half years from now he will run again. It already is worrisome enough that if Biden were to be re-elected that he would be 86 years old by the time he finishes his 2nd term. However, I've come to realize lately that his socialist movement might have been a good this for this country. He reminds me now of Eugene V. Debs, early 20th century socialist who ran as a prominent 3rd third party candidate for US president a number of times throughout the early 1900s progressive era. Even though he never came close to winning the presidency, he was still one of the most instrumental politicians and political activists in bringing about major liberal/progressive reforms for our country during that period of historic change in US history. In fact, Bernie Sanders himself has said that he's always admired him, having described Debs as "probably the most effective and popular leader that the American working class has ever had." Plus he even produced a documentary on him with Bernie having voiced Debs.

Right. But wouldn't the lazy, undisciplined, dishonest liberal be no more developed of an individual than a conservative?

What about a liberal who lacks discipline, has a weak work ethic, dishonest, irrational, and unrealistic left-wing views vs. a conservative who is hard working, disciplined, honest, temperate, and is measured in his right-wing views? Would the latter actually be a more developed individual than the former?

If the DNC "can stop" any left-wing populist like Bernie from being the Democratic nominated, then why couldn't the RNC in 2016 stop Trump, a right-wing populist, from being nominated as the Republican nominee? Explain.

So, would that mean that RFK has a serious chance of being elected president? Or not so much because of how extreme, weird, and off the wall he is?

We also DESPERATELY NEED our labor unions to regain the power they had during the mid 1900s. I think that that will be key to greatly reducing the power or influence that corporate donors and other megadonors have on Democrats. After all, one reason why the Democratic Party switched from being the party of farms, organized labor, and racial minorities to that of being the party of Wall Street, white collar workers, and racial minorities is due to the fact that labor unions have kept losing their power and size since the 70s. Rural America has also been on the decline since the mid 1900s, but at the same time still consist of virtually all white Americans who hold strong and largely archaic conservative American values, don't trust the government as much as suburban and urban Americans do, and have a much more homogenous culture that's more fearful and hold more resentment of racial integration and foreigners immigrating into this country. That's probably why farmers have continued to lose much influence on the Democratic Party, which of course since the mid 1900s has increasingly the represented liberalism/progressivism, civil rights, pro-immigration, urban America, and to some extent suburban America. This idea might also work to some extent on reducing the influence that corporations and the top 1% of wealthy Americans have on the Republican Party, even though the GOP has always been since the 1910s to 1920s the party of Wall Street, the most wealthy individuals, and conservative white christian Americans.

Well, I fear that all of what I showed you could very well happen again in the future. Dark times could be coming by the time all of us are old or have already passed away.

I know these are from the late 1800s Gilded Age and even a little after the turn of the 20th century, but I think they are classic reminders of examples of what happens when there's too much economic inequality, too much pollution, too much neglect for the natural environment, inadequate regulation of foods and drugs, and the people are essentially ruled by corporatocracy and plutocracy when capitalism runs amok: