Hardkill

I believe that only moderate Republicans and moderate conservatives in America are perhaps a mix of stage Blue, stage Orange, and some stage Green. Otherwise, most Republicans and conservatives in the US seem to have very little to no stage Green traits.

Okay, I see what you mean with the first part of your answer. As for the second part of your answer, what was wrong with the kind of tax system we had in the mid 1900s, when it was much more fair for everybody before Reagan became president? Even, rich liberals and Democrats like Warren Buffett have said that the tax rates for the rich and corporate are grossly unfair to everyday people. There will be a day of reckoning for all of the greedy right-wing rich pigs like Carl Icahn and Robert Mercer who have been destroying the middle and working classes and have been trying to kill our democracy.

Why have progressives and liberals been unsuccessful with their movement on taxing the rich and corporations a lot? I get that most Democratic and Republican politicians are still heavily influenced by corporate and wealthy donors who don't want their taxes raised, but why aren't most Americans not outraged by this? Given massive economic equality that has been constantly growing since around the 80s, why hasn't there been enough of a widespread social activism by the poor, middle class, working class, liberals, and progressives like what happened around the turn of the twentieth century?

I believe what the GOP have been doing ever since around the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling in 2015, is that they have shifted their targeting of homosexuals and bisexuals to those who are transgenders or queers. The Republican party has been like "Alright fine, gay rights is now considered acceptable by most Americans and the matter has now settled throughout all of America. That means that we can no longer offend gay people or speak out against marriage, otherwise it will really hurt our chances of winning future elections. Therefore, we concede that there's nothing we can do about this issue anymore......But, you know what we can still do? We can still constantly persecute anyone who is a trans or some woke queer. It's the only possible thing we have left for being able to preserve some semblance of sexual/gender norms in our country. Otherwise, our entire society might very well fall apart and God will send us all to hell. Plus, that should be enough to help us win over our fellow conservative voters and hopefully convince enough moderates and independents to side with us."

DeSantis really is becoming a monster. He may not be as unstable or as dumb as Trump, but he's a real creep and has leaned very hard onto fascism. If he became president he could become like the US version of Putin. A cold, calculating, intelligent, knowledgeable, disciplined, merciless, devious, egotistical military veteran and leader of the USA who would know how to really dismantle our democracy much more effectively than Trump was capable of. This is what happened in Russia, after Putin took over his country. Furthermore, can you even imagine what would happen to our country if by 2024 DeSantis became President, McConnell became Senate majority leader again, and the GOP held on to the U.S. House in Congress?

But how did each of those movements succeed in bringing about such changes? How did they persuade the people to not get distracted by such petty culture wars?

So, how did the Populist movement during the late 1800s succeed with pressuring the government to come up with ways to dramatically reduce economic inequality, eliminate unjust working conditions for employees in America, and pass a constitutional amendment that allowed all women the right the vote, and more? How did the labor unions successfully influence FDR to pressure Congress to pass all of his New Deal policies? How did MLK and the other civil rights movement leaders succeed in ending the Jim Crow laws? How did Gandhi and his movement succeed in freeing India from the British empire? How come the feminist movements have been successful? How were liberals and Democrats able to get the government to institute Medicare and Medicaid, then expanding medicaid to those with disabilities, tie COLA to social security, expand the ACA act further, and have Medicare begin to negotiate prescriptions for the first time ever? Btw, why have more and more red states been passing Medicaid expansion into law?

You know, that’s what Cenk and TYT have been saying recently. I wasn’t sure if that was true or not before, but now it is apparent to me that there is enough of a consensus on this matter that that is what is really going on.

To me, it’s sounding like the GOP is reeking of desperation. Many conservatives and Republicans who didn’t want the Respect for Marriage law to be passed by Congress we’re upset that they lost and some of them even cried about it. They are showing great weakness in many ways by the way they are begging and screaming like petulant children who are so mad about not being able to stop all of these changes from happening in the long run. “Our country is dying!!!! Wahhhh!!! Please, don’t take away our right to impose our authoritarian Christian views on everyone! please, please, please, please!! Wahhh!!!” Now, they’ve gotten so incredibly desperate that the have resorted to threatening or codifying violence if they can’t get want they legally. That makes them even more cowardly.

Oh yeah, I've heard of that book. I'll actually read that book. Thanks for reminding me about that.

Oh that's too bad. lol Well, in all seriousness, has your gf had some kind of trauma in the past? A lot of times when a girl has the urge to have sex an abnormal amount of times per day or even per week, it could mean that she's been using sex as a way to cope with the trauma she got from something terrible that happened to her in the past. In fact, a lot of girls who have been raped, molested, or sexually assaulted in some way will often use sex as a way to avoid properly processing the emotional pain of healing from some sort of sexual trauma. They also often feel worthless and that the only value they have as person is that of a sex object because of how damaged their self-esteem and self-concept is. Maybe she was never traumatized ever, but if you haven't asked her about it, then ask her about her past. If she doesn't feel comfortable talking about it in detail, then maybe try asking her in a general way if she's had any kind of trauma.

I I don't entirely buy that. Yes, most Americans are not so informed, but back in the early to mid 1900s the tax bracket for everyone was so much better than it has been since the 1980s and Reaganism/neoliberalism. Back around the turn of the 20th century, the Populist movement, William Jennings Bryan, and Teddy Roosevelt were able to successfully pressure the government to dramatically reduce the massive economic inequality in America. By 1913, the progressive movement was able to successfully push the government to establish the 16th constitutional amendment, which allowed the government to institute the very first progressive tax system. Look at this picture below showing Teddy Roosevelt squeezing all of the money that the fat greedy pigs like the guy on the left had stolen from the poor, middle class, and working class. Actually Bill Clinton and the Democrats in the 90s did an excellent with passing a reasonably good progressive tax system into law that led to the very first budget surplus since 1969. The last time there was a budget surplus in the US was in 2001.

Perhaps, but why not take this as an opportunity for him to have the wildest and kinkiest kinds of sex he could ever have with any girl? Also, what about an open relationship?

Is your girlfriend open to watching porn with you or going to an orgy?

Or Obama, which is one reason why Biden was elected President. A majority of Americans were like "You know, Joe Biden was Obama's VP and Obama was like one of the best presidents ever. He and Biden have been very close friends with each other and they both stand for the values and rights." Another reason a majority of voters also wanted Biden because he would calm down the chaos caused by COVID and Trump and genuinely attempt to reunite the country. Most Americans want a president who is not hyper-partisan and/or unstable like Trump was. Bernie was also too polarizing, too extreme to left, scared off too many uninformed Independent voters and Democratic voters by proudly declaring himself as some kind of socialist, and did strongly convey himself as a religious Jew or Christian.

But according to top economists, Brexit made the UK significantly less wealthy and made the cost goods more expensive more because of less efficient trading between the UK and other countries. Furthermore, didn’t Brexit undermine the country’s foreign relations with those in the EU?

Pat Buchanan's primary attempt kinda weakened Bush Sr. back then when Bush ran for re-election. Again, any kind of serious divisions within the Party holding the White House causes as much damage to the incumbent presidential nominee as a third party spoiler does. This was one big reason why Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. A big chuck of Bernie Sanders' followers decided to vote for either Jill Stein or Gary Johnson or stay home and not vote at all. If there weren't any big divisions within the Democratic party back then, then Hillary would've won. Btw, did you watch what Dan Pfieffer said here?

This host and the caller he head on this show both say that being a part of a labor unions does more harm than good for workers in general: Are these guys overstating the negatives or are what they are saying true?

That's exactly what I am worried about. If there's a serious division within the party in power then that will weaken the incumbent candidate as much as a third party spoiler does.

Roughly 30 MILLION Americans do not have any health insurance AT ALL and about 43% of working age adults in the US are not insured enough. Also, are you telling me that you're okay with many drug companies in the US over charging most Americans unjustly? Having a college level education or higher is only going to continue to increase in need and value in the US as the US economy continues to shift to higher and higher skilled-based labor because of the ever increasing amount of labor automation and the whole world becoming more and more globalized in the long-run. Besides, you can't become a doctor, healthcare professional, scientist, lawyer, judge, engineer, architect, teacher, mathematician, accountant, high-level technology professional, or others such as those that required you to earn at least an undergraduate degree. the safety nets that we have in the US are still not good enough. If they were then most Americans wouldn't be living miserable lives.

Has she ever given an incredibly rousing and memorable keynote speech to a massive crowd like the way that Obama did when he was only a state legislature in 2004? Has she even proven herself to garner as much of a broad appeal as Bill Clinton got after he first came out of nowhere in the early 90s for his VERY FIRST presidential bid? Also, neither Obama nor Clinton started off as particularly high profile establishment type politicians when they each ran for president for the first time. Yet, they each made up for it for being to inspire 45-69 million people to love them. Obama particularly has had exceptional levels of charisma. Btw, to be fair with what you said about Obama being more progressive than moderate. He was significantly more to the left than Clinton and most Democrats in the 90s and early 2000s were. However, Obama was still a neoliberal/corporate Democrat as he was still beholden to a number of corporate donors and affluent professionals and less influenced by labor unions and the working class. Nevertheless, his passing of the ACA was such a historic achievement that had eluded presidents since Teddy Roosevelt in 1901-1909. Plus, unlike Clinton who passed laws with Congress that deregulated the banks and Wall Street and contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, Obama passed major legislation with Congress that involved major regulations designed to avoid the same kind of financial mess that ruined the economy in 2008. Overall, Clinton in the 90s was very centrist Democrat, Obama was more of a center-left Democratic President, and Biden is an even more progressive center-left Democrat than Obama was. Biden is actually more pro-union than Obama and Clinton were.

Are you aware of the fact that there have been countless Americans who have been struggling to get by through no fault of their own because they haven't been given enough of a living wage. Even Mark Cuban, who is one of the most successful businessmen in the world said that the minimum wage should be a living wage, even though it hasn't been for numerous people in the country. Most billionaires and multimillionaires in the US have become as wealthy as they are because of how much economic power and skill they have at being able to steal so much of the wealth that they don't deserve and need. They also have been allowed to legally exploit most of their employees unjustly. Plus, many big corporations such as big Pharma have been a lot of price gouging for decades ever since the beginning of Reaganism. Not to mention, the number of monopolies that have grown in America since the 80s.

The higher taxes in the scandinavian countries have provided their countries the means for universal healthcare, free public colleges and universities tuition, and other essentials social safety net programs for each and every citizen. So, what if unions raise costs? That's what happened when unions membership reached a peak in the mid 1900s in the US and the US was still the wealthiest country in the world during those times.

Yes, safety conditions and standards of living conditions have risen over the past 50 years in many respects, but ever since stagflation in the 70s and the rise of neoliberalism/reaganism in the 80s, the middle class has been destroyed by the rich and corporations, as the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer. Furthermore, the right-wing libertarian rich elite and Republican corporate donors have also been helping the far-right destroying our democracy. You need to have a more nuanced understanding of what has been going on.

Actually, most employee's real wages in the US have decreased since the 70s, largely because we don't have enough strong labor unions in the service sector. Paul Krugman mentioned how most employees in the sandinavians countries like Denmark, have much better wages, a much stronger social safety net, and a mostly unionized work force. In fact, all of the sandinavian countries have also been about as open to world trade as America has been if not more. Denmark, actually has a lot more free trade than the US. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/economic-freedom/dataset?geozone=world&page=dataset&min-year=2&max-year=0&filter=0&sort-field=freedomToTradeInternationally&sort-reversed=1