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Great... Now, the whole world is going to have another major problem that will have unforeseen consequences.

I guess we are really going to have see what happens and pray for our country not to get taken by right-wing authoritarianism. I am also very worried about what the right wingers will do to social security, medicare, and many other social safety nets and rights if the Republican party takes control of the House, Senate, and Presidency by 2024.

Yeah, I don't see what Leo has done that would be signs of him of having bipolar. He hasn't done anything that has been out of the ordinary impulsive. I haven't seen his mood swinging at all from being overly energetic to being severely depressed, or vice versa. He hasn't ever made any outlandish or highly exaggerated claims about things that sound irrational or maybe even sound conspiratorial. Also, as far as I know about him, he doesn't seem to have any kind of maladaptive coping behaviors that would decrease stress and anxiety in the short-term, but actually would increase stress and anxiety in the long-term such as gambling, binge eating, consuming any tobacco products, excessive alcohol use, taking any illegal drugs, sex addiction, etc. Yes, he does take psychedelics frequently, which I think is supposed to be illegal in the US. However, their has been growing amount of legitimate scientific and medical research that does seem to show that psychedelics might be very beneficial as long as you know how to use them, and I am inclined to believe that Leo seems to know how to use them properly.

Well, Michael Moore believes that this time the voters are most concerned with abortion rights and democracy being threatened.

If they do win this election, then would you begin to consider moving to another country?

When? During the 19th century, when people such as factory workers and children were forced to work that much? That indeed was a very unhealthy and very unjust situation for all of those people? What about being to make a least a million dollars through legitimate means? Or getting a high status job of any kind or becoming a famous celebrity (which I know is like 1 in a million chance of ever happening)? Or creating something inventive or innovative for your society or for the whole world?

Yeah, but can most people mentally and physically handle even a few years of an extreme amount of hours and days per week every week? I mean if everyone in the world then wouldn't the amount of people who end up with workplace burnout, diminished work performance, death from overwork, diminishing work performance, too much competition, etc. skyrocket all over the world like crazy? Also, don't you need to have above average natural talent in something in order to become truly successful at anything. I could be wrong, but I don't think that most people in the world have any natural talents for anything. Therefore, I still don't see how most people can become successful in life through hard work alone, even if they worked as hard as hell for many years. So, you no longer believe that you are most creative and connected to life on your off days? Or is it more nuanced than that and depends on each individual? Yes, China will have the largest economy in the world by around 2030, and yes other countries India, Russia, and Brazil have become very competitive, but America is by far the most powerful, most successful country, and the richest country in the world. It's still ruled by an authoritarian dictator, who lately has been coming off even more like a totalitarian ruler like Kim Jong-Un in North Korea. That's why the political elites in China cannot and will not even receive the constructive criticism from high quality independent journalism and public opinion that would provide such crucial honest feedback on what things the government needs to do in order to greatly improve their country. Xi Jinping and the other political elites probably only has yes men telling him what he wants to hear instead of telling him what he needs to hear because everyone else in China is probably afraid of getting severely punished or killed if they either speak out against them or point any mistakes they are making or tell them any bad news they don't want hear about. Also, their medical technology is still inferior to western nations. Plus, to my knowledge, the country doesn't have any where the amount of highly creative and highly innovative individuals that the US has. Moreover, their overall quality of infrastructure is not anywhere near as good as America's infrastructure. You even said that even big powerful countries such as Russia, Brazil, China, and India are still so underdeveloped that it will take them at least 50 to 100 years to maybe catch up to America. Russia has lately proven to not nearly as tough or as threatening as we thought before given how much they've already been struggling to even take over Ukraine, which quite frankly is turning out to be such a historic embarrassment of epic proportions. Also, because there's no real democracy there, political elites of Russia, particularly Putin, also only have yes men telling them what they want to hear. In fact, everyone in Russia has recently become terrified of telling Putin the mistakes he's been making. Additionally, this war is taking such a profound toll on the entire economy of Russia that top economists around the world have been saying that not only is Russia in a severe recession, but it will more than likely enter into a real economic depression. Btw, the country has already been having a significant brain drain in recent months. Furthermore, they have a worse overall quality of infrastructure than China does. https://fortune.com/2022/08/20/russia-brain-drain-young-russians-leaving-after-ukraine-war-putin/ India, does have some amount of real democracy, but I don't think that their democracy is nearly as high in quality as the US. Also, while the country's economy has undoubtedly become increasingly richer and larger at a very significant rate v the country is still much poorer than China and Russia. Not to mention that their level of infrastructure is actually much worse than either China's or Russia's level of infrastructure. Brazil has about the level of real democracy as India, but the country overall is still no better off than either China, Russia, or India, in any way at all. So, doesn't that mean that the US already so far ahead of every other country in the world in power, wealth, and overall success that there is absolutely no way that any other country will be able to take over America's spot as the number one superpower nation in the world for several decades? Even if America no longer became number one in the world overall, so what?

So, then Elon Musk was right all along about needing to work 80+ hours per week every week every year for the rest of your life in order to become truly successful? If that's so, then that makes me wonder what the point of living is?

Okay, I see your point there. But what about the idea how most successful people are not happy at all because of the excessive amount of work they constantly put in order to achieve the success they made? Furthermore, how does and ambitious, hard working individual supposed to know when to slow down or cut down the amount of hours he/she works before they suffer the consequences of the excesses and toxicity of stage Orange?

Actually, it looks like a growing number of companies in the US are trying this out and seeing how it will really work in the long run. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/business/four-day-work-week-risk-takers/index.html But what instead of having a 4 day work week should companies be doing to solve the issues of workplace burnout, quiet quitting, life dissatisfaction, mental and physical health problems from overworking, death from overwork, diminishing work performance, etc. all of which have becoming growing widespread issues in countries such as the US and Japan?

Nouriel Roubini. who's moniker is Dr. Doom, was one of the very few economists out there who accurately predicted the 2008 financial during the early 2000s. Now, he's predicting that the US and the rest of the global economy will in the next year or two enter into a financial crisis worse than the one that occurred during the 70s and early 80s. He actually predicts that this financial crisis we will be going through will be what he calls a stagflationary debt crisis, which he says is something that the entire world has never experienced before. Furthermore, he talked about how there have already been so many other negative things that have been going on this world within recent years including major backlash against free-markets and laissez faire policies, major backlash against trade and deglobalization, massive increase in wealth and income inequality, rise of extreme left and right wing populism in many countries, authoritarian regimes becoming increasingly popular, the war in Ukraine, climate change crisis, rise in deaths of despair all over the world, COVID still not being over, etc. Then, he said that all of things in addition to this upcoming stagflationary debt crisis will ultimately lead to such severe socio-political consequences throughout the whole world to the point that many countries across the globe including the US, many nations in Europe, China, India, Russia and what have you will each be on the brink of a civil war, violent insurrections and revolutions, secession, world war, and possibly worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RYGWwn88wQ Is the end of the world really nigh or are these predictions way too over the top and he's just doing a lot of fearmongering?

Do you believe that successful CEOs, top lawyers, rich and famous showbiz celebrities deserve to make a lot more money than other high level professionals such as doctors, scientists, college/university professors, architects, engineers, elite level soldiers, members of SWAT team, fire chiefs, etc.?

Speaking of rights, in your part 2 vid, can you please give your rebuttal to how progressives a lot of times mention how historic figures and eras in US history such as the Populist movement, the Progressive era of the 1900s, FDR and the New Deal era, the Civil rights movement, LBJ and the Great Society era, etc. were all able to successfully make such big and bold structural reforms in our country that created much greater equal rights and economic equality within our country to such radical degrees each time?

Why do you think he is making anti-semitic statements? Is it out of ethnocentrism? Or could he be very envious of Jewish people? Or is it because his psychosis has greatly influenced him into believing in all kinds of conspiracies like the idea of "Jews taking over the whole world behind the scenes"?

Wait, if Russia and China actually each have a lower Gini coefficient than the US does, then is there truly lesser economic inequality in Russia and China than in America?

The mid-1900s in the US was a time of egalitarian growth for practically every American citizen. According to https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide-to-statistics-on-historical-trends-in-income-inequality : "The best survey data show that the share of wealth held by the top 1 percent rose from 30 percent in 1989 to 39 percent in 2016, while the share held by the bottom 90 percent fell from 33 percent to 23 percent. Census family income data show that from the late 1940s to the early 1970s, incomes across the distribution grew at nearly the same pace." That's why we really need to have both the distribution of wealth and distribution of income to go back to the way it was before the rise of neoliberalism occurred.

As an artist myself, I fully agree with that.

I agree with that, but as you've mentioned before, that also doesn’t mean that CEOs and other rich folk should be allowed to cause the growing economic inequality that’s been going on since the late 70s/early 80s. Working and middle class people like those in the military, police, fighters, etc. who work very hard and put their lives on the line everyday all deserve to make at least 6 figures.

What's wrong with having those who are intellectual, competent, open-minded, and of sound mind, be the only ones to vote for the best leaders of a country?

Okay, so you're generally not necessarily against the use of psychiatric medications prescribed appropriately by psychiatrists, yeah?

His music is creative and fun, but he's not on the level of someone like Beethoven or Wynton Marsalis.

Do you believe that those with bipolar need to be treated with mood-stabilizing typically prescribed by psychiatrists or be treated with psychedelics?

They say that Social Security will become insolvent by around 2035 and Republicans keep threatening take social security away from Millennials and younger generations. Younger people like me are very worried that we may not ever have any guaranteed retirement savings at all by the time we reach the age of 65 to 70 something years old. Retirement savings and investing plans such as 401K have serious risks. Are people 45 years old and younger screwed?

Top COVID experts all over the world said last year that the COVID pandemic was going to be over by the end of last year. Then, the delta variant wave of the virus unexpectedly occurred. This was unexpectedly followed by the Omicron variant wave. The experts then said that the pandemic will probably be over by around Spring or Summer of this year. However, that of course turned out to not be the case, given the unexpected rise of the new subvariants of Omicron, particularly BA.5 that have been prevalent since Summer 2022. The B.A. 5 wave around the world is finally coming to an end. Yet, now Europe and other parts of the world have recently been dealing with another wave of new omicron subvariants, including BQ.1, BQ.1.1 and BF.7. Fauci and other COVID experts in the US in recent weeks have been telling the American public to be prepared for this newest wave of variants to arrive in the US by late Fall/early winter. Yes, this is still a new virus that even the best experts out there still don't fully understand or know, which is why they have been failing to predict the end of the pandemic crisis. Yes, lockdowns have no longer been needed since last year and are never coming back in any part of the world ever again (except in China). Yes, the death rates and hospitalization rates all around the world have kept improving significantly over time ever since beginning of the crisis, thanks to the constant improvement in the vaccines and the covid pills like Paxlovid. Nevertheless, this crisis has already been going on for almost 3 years now and is still not over. That means that this crisis is taking much longer to end than it took the Spanish Flu pandemic crisis from over 100 years ago to end. So, that's now one big worldwide problem that we don't know will ever end for good. Another major uncertainty out that's been around for almost 2 years now, is state of the global economy and what is going to happened to it a year or two from now. Last year, the general consensus of top economists and central banks in every developed country said last year that inflation was transitory and that it would come back down to normal levels by either the end of last year or the beginning of this year. Then, at the beginning of 2022, the general consensus of economists and central bank officials changed to to saying that they realized that they were wrong about the inflation issue being totally transitory and how it would end relatively soon. There have been a few economists, including Larry Summers and Mohammed El-Erian, who correctly assessed last year and in the beginning of this year about inflation largely not being transitory and that the US economy got too overheated by both excess fiscal stimulus and significant mistakes made in monetary policy. Now those same economists who called it right have been constantly saying since around Spring 2022 that the US and the rest of global economy will very likely enter into a serious recession within the next 1-2 years. Even Fed Chair Powell, recently announced to the American public that unfortunately the Fed now has no choice but to cause some rise in unemployment and even lower economic growth in the near term in order to aggressively tamp down inflation in the US. Powell also said that this might cause the US to be in a recession in 2023 or 2024. I am very worried about what that's going to mean economically for many people in the world and what the political ramifications will be for Biden and the Democrats for the midterms coming up and the 2024 general election. Then, there is the War in Ukraine. It's a tragedy that this war is happening. It's especially became terrible timing when the war began at a time when the world was and still is in the midst of the COVID pandemic crisis and inflation. I am impressed with the Ukrainians being able to successfully hold off Russia from taking over their country this long, but this war has been going on so much longer than we expected it would be with no end in sight. Countless amounts of innocent casualties have already been dying from this war and the longer this fight continues the more innocent people will die in Ukraine. Also, the longer this war keeps going on, the more possible oil price shocks and food prices shocks will happen all around the world for God knows how long. Not only has this made the inflation problem all around the world even worse. It also has further increased the risk of a serious global recession. Plus, it has made the world hunger problem worse. Not to mention that because this war has been going on much longer than anyone would've ever anticipated and because Russia has been surprisingly struggling to win the war, the threat of nuclear warfare is now at the highest it has ever been since the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early 60s. I am also very concerned about China still not ending its constant lockdowns and how that will continue to negatively affect the global economy a year or two from now. Moreover, with regard to China, I am concerned about what will happen to the world if China does invade Taiwan in the near future, now that Russia has already invaded Ukraine. Furthermore, I am nervous about what will happen to the US if the Democrats lose control of at least one if not both chambers of Congress after the upcoming midterm elections. I am even more nervous about what will happen to the US and perhaps the rest of the world, if the Republicans ultimately regain control of the House, Senate, and the Presidency by 2024. I know that there's nothing much I can really do about any of these situations, but I've been trying my best for months now to tell myself that everything will be okay and that the future may turn out better than I fear, but it's not working for me.

Even if I wanted to move to somewhere else like Canada, it would probably take me more than 2 years for me to move out of the country.