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So, thats it? The working and middle class people have no choice but to just give up because they are all powerless victims?

Yeah, I can see how the free trade policies would negatively affect labor unions. But what kind of propaganda did the business leaders and lobbyists put out that convinced a lot more Americans to not have or not join labor unions?

I don't get why labor unions haven't been as prevalent as they used to be several decades ago. They always worked out well for most Americans.

Some of what you guys are saying is valid. However, I think now really know why southern states that have a fair to high amount of racial diversity are still racist or racially conservative. The southern states that have a moderate to somewhat high amount of racial/ethnic diversity like Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee still have a relatively low to barely medium level of overall diversity including a low level of cultural and socioeconomic diversity. These states also have a high to very high rural population (by percentage) compared to the rest of the country. These states are further considered to be the 5 most religious states in the country. Alabama is arguably recognized as the most religious/most tradition-oriented state in the country. Tennessee has a somewhat high population density overall but Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi all have low to barely average level of overall population density. Lastly, all of five of these states are considered to be some of the least educated states in the country. Mississippi has the 2nd lowest overall education level per capita, Louisiana has the 3rd lowest overall education level per capita, Arkansas has the 4th lowest overall education level per capita, and Tennessee has the 10th lowest overall education level per capita. As for Oklahoma, it does a medium to high amount of overall diversity including a somewhat high amount of racial/ethnic and cultural diversity. However, it has one of the lowest levels of socioeconomic diversity in the country. The state also is approx. the 6th least educated state in the country and is approx. the 8th most religious state in America. Additionally, it still has a higher percentage of rural residents than most other states in America have and still has a low population density overall. The southern states that still have much racism but actually have had a high to very high racial/ethnic diversity such as Texas, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia each still have relatively high to very high religious populations. Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia also have each had pretty low to very low education levels per capita. Though in recent years, each of these states have had a significant uptick in the number of educated folk. Florida actually has a somewhat high overall level of education per capita and is less religious than the other four states are, which is why it may be less racist than Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. However, each of these five states have actually become increasingly much less racist over time largely because of how much each of these states' diversity, urban and suburban populations, overall population densities have all been booming over the past two decades. Regarding Virginia, that state has actually no longer had much racism. This is very likely due to state having become one of the most educated states in the country, having now higher urban and suburban populations than rural populations, having had a high population density in recent years, and having a high amount of overall diversity. Maryland has in fact been always kind of an exception in the South. It actually was never as racist as any of the other southern states were, totally supported civil rights and voting rights for all colored people in the mid-1900s, and has been loyal to liberals and the Democratic Party since 1992, particularly at the national level.

I think I now, figured out why Republicans have been dominant in Montana, Alaska, and Utah. Montana has one of the highest rural populations (by percentage) in America, one of the least densely populated states, and is one the least diverse states in America. Alaska has a high rural population (by percentage), is THE LEAST densely populated state, and has a slightly below average education level per capita. Utah is one of the most religious states in the country (including the fact that it has an abnormal amount of fundamentalists), low population density overall, and is one of the least diverse states in America. I also now get why Democrats have been dominant in Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Virginia has now gained such a high education level per capita, that it is now considered to be the 7th most educated state in the country. Also, Virginia has in recent years had a high amount of overall diversity and a high population density overall. Plus, over the past few decades, its rural population has been continually shrinking while its urban and suburban populations have been growing. Its rural population by percentage is now slightly below medium in comparison to all other states in America. Vermont has become approx. the 5th most educated state in the country and is tied with Maine for being the 2nd most secular state in America. A lot of this can be attributed to the influx of many liberals from other east coast states like Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut our the past few decades. New Hampshire has become one of the top 10 most educated states in the country. Moreover, it's been tied with Massachusetts as being the most secular state in America. Like Vermont, the state also has had an influx of many liberals from other east coast states like Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut over the past few decades. Maine has been tied with Vermont for being 2nd most secular state in America. Furthermore, Republicans in the New England region have always been more moderate than most other Republicans throughout the country. The state also has a relatively high education level per capita.

So, when will the US be ready for a major change?

But why do I need to be socially calibrated and sexually escalate with a girl who is already a very sexually liberated sex worker? I wonder why saying something sexually explicit like the way I said it is disrespectful to a girl who is totally sex positive and doesn't seem to view sex as something that is a big deal or as being a personal matter.

Yeah, I've been hearing the rumors about his health issues for weeks now, and I of course want to believe this, but I am still kinda skeptical about it because it hasn't been 100% confirmed yet and we can't always trust what the Russians say. For all we know, they could be making this up as part of some ploy or trick. It's also possible that all of these claims about Putin's health could be a mistake.

I believe that immigrants, especially those who are black or brown, generally vote more for Democrats and liberals than more for Republicans and conservatives. However, ever since 2016, it seems that there have been somewhat of a larger percentage of white and colored immigrants in America who have been voting more for Republicans. I am aware that one reason some immigrants will vote for Republicans or conservatives is because of how less educated and less cognitively developed those people are. Another reason is that some immigrants come from societies that have more primitive cultures. My dad is worried that having more immigrants from 2nd or 3rd world countries like Mexico, Cuba, other Latin countries, Middle East, China, India, Africa, Eastern Europe, etc. might actually be making it more favorable for Republicans because most immigrants from these countries are already conservative and less educated people. Does having more immigrants in America mean that the country will have more diverse voters who will tend to vote liberal and Democratic or does it actually mean that the country will have more low-educated voters who will tend to vote more conservative or Republican?

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I think your ideas would help. I also think that the Democratic needs to reach to A LOT more rural voters throughout the whole than they have been in recent years. This is what James Carville said last year in an article on Vox: "Here’s the deal: No matter how you look at the map, the only way Democrats can hold power is to build on their coalition, and that will have to include more rural white voters from across the country. Democrats are never going to win a majority of these voters. That’s the reality. But the difference between getting beat 80 to 20 and 72 to 28 is all the difference in the world. So they just have to lose by less — that’s all." Btw, I've recently studied up a lot on the voters demographics of each state and I see that the five key things that indeed do make a voting population more liberal and Democratic are: 1. Having a higher education per capita. 2. Larger share of people who are either less conservative in their religious beliefs or are not religious at all. 3. Decreasing rural populations while increasing urban and suburban populations. 4. Having more densely population cities, suburbs, and towns. 5. Increasing the diversity of the population. This is how a state such as Virginia turned from becoming a mainly conservative state to now mainly a liberal state. The state started off in 1619, as arguably having the worst level of slavery. After America became a sovereign nation 1776, Virginia very much continued on as a slave state through the rest of the 1700s and during the early to mid-1800s. At the beginning of the Civil War, Virginia joined the Confederacy and actually its state capital Richmond ended up becoming the capitol of the whole Confederate States of America. In fact, General Robert E. Lee, who became the top commander of the entire Confederate States Army in the war was born, raised, and died in Virginia. Even after both the end of the war and the end slavery in all of America, most Virginians were still very racist and by around 1877 implemented the Jim Crow laws in their state. The racist southern Democrats in Virginia were always the dominant political party in their state at both the state and national level from the late 1800s all the way to the mid 1900s. Even during the civil rights movement era, no Congressmen from Virginia for either the Senate or the House voted for ANY of the Civil Rights or Voting Rights bills that ended segregation and gave full citizenship and voting rights for all colored people in all of the South. During the late 60s, Democrats lost the South, including Virginia, to the Republican Party. From the 70s to the 90s it was mostly a red state. Then in the 2000s decade it transitioned to becoming a purple state. Finally, by the 2010s, Virginia turned into a mostly Blue state. The state is currently mostly Blue and it looks like it's only going to more Blue as time goes. The reasons why the state made such a change over the many years include having a much higher education per capita than before (Virginia is now arguably the seventh-most educated U.S. state), rural populations shrinking at a major rate while urban and suburban populations have been growing at a very significant rate, more and more densely populated areas in the state, greater amount of overall diversity throughout the entire state, and even though Virginians on average are more religious than most other Americans they have become less conservative in their religious beliefs overtime. This is also pretty much what's been happening with Georgia. It's a Deep South state that of course is a former member of the Confederacy and had slavery for over a century. Also, like every other Southern state, it too established and enforced Jim Crow laws from the late 1800s to 1965. No Congressmen from Georgia for either the Senate or the House voted for ANY of the Civil Rights or Voting Rights bills during the civil right era, except for a very few amount of House of Representatives from the state. Became primarily a red state from the late 60s to the 2010s. Yet, ever since Biden/Harris won Georgia for the 2020 presidential election, and the the centre-left Democrats, Ossoff and Warnock won both of those US senate seats in that runoff, the state has now become a purple state that is likely to turn increasingly Blue overtime. This happened because the state, especially in Atlanta, has become increasingly diverse, the average population density of the state has become high and will continue to increase overtime, and the entire state has higher urban and suburban populations and less rural populations than it used to. North Carolina, which is another former Confederate state with a long history of slavery and racism, eventually became a swing state by around 2008. Obama actually won that state for his first presidential election. Biden and Harris were very close to winning it in 2020. This is again is due the major increase in diversity, major increase in average population density of the state, and having a bit of a higher education level per capita than before. Texas itself has become increasingly less red since around 2004 for similar reasons. It's looking like that state will probably turn purple and then Blue within about a decade or so. This is because the state's overall population and average population density have been growing like crazy over the past decades. It now has high urban and suburban populations which both still continue to boom while the state's total rural population keeps declining. Furthermore, it has now become the 2nd most diverse state in the country. If the state had a higher education level per capita and/or was less religious then the state would very likely transition to Blue even sooner than a decade. I also think that Democrats in states such as Arizona, Texas, and Florida, need to do a better job with uniting Democrats at the state level and getting more colored people in their states to vote for Democrats.

Maybe he's going through a dry spell?

TYT keeps being incredibly frustrated with the Democrats “Doing Nothing" Cenk and Ana recently said that even if the Democrats had a supermajority of Democrats in both chambers of Congress or even if the entire Congress was made up of 100% democratic US senators and 100% US House of Representatives, the Democrats would get "nothing done" at all because they have become feckless and corrupted these days that they have no longer been willing to fight for the working class, the middle class, women, black, and brown, or for any of downtrodden folk in America. How accurate is that?

Nevada does have a very high urban population and New Mexico has a relatively high urban population per capita. However, Nevada has a very low overall education per capita and New Mexico has a low overall education per capita. Plus, parts of each state are within the Mormon Corridor region of the country. New Mexico is actually more religious than most other US states and Nevada has a relatively big mormon population. Utah, is of course the center of Mormonism, but as I said in my most previous thread it has one a highest urban populations per capita and is considered to have an definitely a higher overall level education than most other states in the country. So, why have New Mexico and Nevada become mostly safe Blue states?

We need a nation wide progressive civil rights movement ASAP!

I thank him for his invaluable work. May he Rest In Peace.

And what about New Mexico?

Okay, I thought that that was possibly the reason with Nevada. But why did New Mexico become primarily Blue despite being ranked low in overall education per capita and having a higher religious population than those in most other states?

I can't wait for the older conservatives to die off. That will help society progress more from the archaic dogma on absolute gun rights. I mentioned earlier that millions upon millions of conservatives all throughout the entire country may need to suffer and die themselves from some kind of numerous series of mass shootings in order to finally see that the idea of gun rights for all American citizens has been a grave mistake. Another idea is to have some kind of incredibly powerful nation-wide movement against guns rights for all on the level of the civil rights movement or some other kind of historic revolutionary movement. We would need some anti-gun right leaders all over the country who have exceptional charisma and would devote to fighting like hell for nationwide major gun reform for as many years as it takes to finally achieve success.

I really hope not, but it may have to come to that. It’s like how Leo talked about the idea when some idea or method that works in the short-term turns out to be so ugly or so horrific that enough people will finally realize that it needs to change. You know, I actually don’t think that will work. After 1937, when the conservative coalition ended up dominating congress, FDR tried as hard as he could to bully as many conservative Democrats and conservative Republicans in Congress to vote for many of the pieces legislation that they were opposed to. But it didn’t work. He even tried to purge the conservative Democrats by campaigning against them like hell and have the primaried as much as possible. But that didn’t work at all either. He was only able to get one conservative Democrat primaried by another more liberal Democrat. In fact, the whole conservative coalition in Congress hardened their stance against FDR’s New Deal policies. They only allowed him to pass just one more New Deal legislation in 1938. After that, only regular legislation would get passed for the rest of his presidency. same with JFK and LBJ. Despite the massive democratic majorities they each had in both chambers of Congress, neither one of get any major policy changing legislation pass until the end of 1963. That was the time when JFK was assassinated, the conservative coalition finally lost their dominance in Congress, and the civil rights movement finally got through to both the public and the elite. That’s when LBJ was finally able to effectively use both his extensive experience and skill as a legislator and hardball tactics to get the supermajority of Congress from both sides of the aisle to pass the 1964 Civil rights bill. I believe that all of those events led to such a massive electoral victory for the Democrats in 1964 that not only did LBJ win by a landslide, but also more liberals got elected into both the House and the Senate. Ultimately, LBJ and the liberal Democrats gained enough seats in Congress to finally pass the 1965 voting rights bill, along with a flood of other historic Great Society bills.

Sadly, I think that many conservatives are going to need to suffer from a profound level of gun violence themselves in order to genuinely accept the need for major gun reforms. Many members of their families and many of their relatives, close friends, long-term partners, etc. would have to die from such an unfathomably nightmarish mass shooting that has never happened since the American Civil War, if not worst.

I am grief-stricken and angered by this. Fucking conservatives in our country can’t get it through their thick numb skulls about gun control. I also really can’t stand people like Manchin and Sinema with their bullshit idea of protecting the “precious” filibuster for the sake of bipartisanship. Even today, Manchin made another predictable statement pertaining to this shooting incident. https://thehill.com/news/senate/3500416-manchin-calls-for-common-sense-gun-limits-resists-filibuster-reform/ He knows very well that we will never have enough GOP senators sign onto to ANY gun reform laws with the filibuster as is.

for several years now, the progressives have loudly protesting until they are blue in the face, have been doing political activism like crazy all around the country, putting in 110% of their efforts in running for all kinds of various offices from the local levels to the highest national levels all throughout the country, trying as hard as they can to pressure Democratic leadership and Congressmen to pass more liberal legislation, etc., etc., etc. that they have been doing. Sure, the progressives have now become the largest House Democrat ideological caucus in Congress, and have recently won a few more local races in some big cities like Boston. Yes, Bernie gave Hillary a run for her money in the 2016 and gave Biden a run for his money in 2020. AOC, has indeed become a popular liberal amongst young voters in America for a few years. Yet, none of the progressives have been able to achieve anything materially for any American citizens. Other movements in history such as Gandhi's movement nonviolent independence movement, abolition movement in the 1800s, both the progressive movement women's rights movement around the turn of the 20th century, the civil rights movements for blacks in the mid 1900s, the latino movement in the mid 1900s, the gay rights movements all succeeded with their goals. But why hasn't the contemporary progressive movement in the US been able to make any real significant progress for many years now? Will the progressives be able to win in the end, but we just to wait for many more years until they finally achieve success, or the establishment democrats and conservatives right about their movement having become a totally hopeless cause?

That's definitely true. Besides Trump winning the election, the other unusual thing about that election back then what that Both Hillary and Trump were arguably the two most unpopular and most polarizing presidential nominees ever in US electoral history.

Are you serious? You don think former presidents Reagan, W. Bush, and Trump were not morons leaders? How about congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green and many of the other right wing politicians who are in many powerful positions in our government.