A lot of these seem directed towards MAGA. I do wish they’d tell us more about how trump is going to “save” the economy when tons of actual economists say the opposite.

The anti science Evangelical Christians and the New Age antivaxers are a whole class of ignorance unto themselves.

As it should be. Alas…

During the Boris Yelstin years when communism was slowly falling, the Russian oligarchs stepped in to make everything private and loot as much of the public wealth as possible. Then Putin came in and got the oligrachs under his thumb. In the US it started with "Trickle Down Economics" and now literal billionaires are about to do something far more worse. As Carlin said " rights aren't rights if someone can take them away. They are temporary privileges". That theory is about to be tested, again.

The goal of Russia is to cause chaos and polarization EVERYWHERE. It's proven to be linked to some independence movements within Spain as well

... or anyone's.

Not just for the Americans.

Literally calculated to be addictive.

Rhetoric isn't representation. Don't reelect someone who didn't deliver on the promises made to get your vote the last time.

That circles back to the "education" point. An ignorant and incurious population won't look, and won't understand it when told.

It has always been for the rich. Most of the founding fathers were fairly wealthy land owners. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are two examples; they owned large plantations.

And we can't control what the rest of the world does. It's not all about the USA. Every country has its own reality apart from ours.

Scary how quickly things could fall apart here and people are oblivious to it.

Most Republicans clearly don't understand the world economy; spewing nonsense about price increases that happened all over the world after covid yet it's Biden's fault of course *eye roll*

We once grew strong by disconnecting from the rest of the world. Now we grow weak by doing the same.

Americans do not learn the true history of America. It is completely whitewashed to make the white ruling class look good.

And just because they aren't up to speed on your preferred vocabulary doesn't mean they are against you in substance.

All of those people who googled “tariffs” on Nov 6th…

One of relatively few here that really is meaningful for Americans specifically.

Well that is true for any country. The art of agreeing to disagree has been lost.

Some people seem to think that equal rights somehow means less rights for them? It's not a pie were are talking about here.

Individual people made all decisions to move these industries overseas and individals made the decisions not to stop them or at least remedy the consequences all in the name of money, stupidity and laziness. The individual responsiblity of these leaders should be researched andreveald to the general public. Not to punish them but to finally learn something from the past.

This would be good advice for most of the people I know, independent of their country of origin. On the other hand, people speaking should understand that most of us listen with our heart first and not with our brain.

And how USA is not a beacon of freedom, and has not been for years.

Yes, social media plays an interesting role there, too. You can find ‘proof’ of virtually any claim. And yet people are more convinced than ever that only they ‘know the truth’.

Or how the economy works in general. It should be taught in elementary school first. But the people in power are not interested in voters seeing through their big words. And unfortunately its true in most of the countries in the world.

Martial artists are typically like this (myself included). I don't go out seeking a fight, but if I'm attacked, it's better to have the knowledge on how to protect myself.

Unfortunately all too often it is the cause of much misery and inequality. Dumbing down education for example. Removing books from public libraries, ensuring women don't have autonomy over their bodies etc.

I have yet to meet a conservative who has an open mind to an opposing view. It is their mental programming, like a member of Scientology is programmed to avoid all exposure to any views critical of their cult.

But… He said he’d lower the cost of groceries and we’d all have more money in general!!

Import/export tariffs also harm overall economic performance, worsening industrial competiveness and frankly everything. Trade wars are bad for everyone's business. No-one wins: everyone loses.

Going to???? It's already under way.

Everyone and everything is matter

Yuri Bezmenov(defected Soviet journalist) actually gave an interview in the 80's describing how Russia will turn the US population against each other even more. He said it would take about 25-40 years for that goal to be complete. Social media accelerated the process.

40%-50% income tax? Seriously? Here in the UK, the first £12570 of income is untaxed. The next band, up to £50270, is taxed at 20%. It's only income above £57270 which attracts 40% tax. And we have free health care. One reason we can afford it is that the NHS has huge purchasing power so can do good deals with the firms that supply medicines and medical equipment. Meanwhile in the USA, the medical industry is all about maximising profit so d**g prices are sky-high.

Exactly what would you have us do? We know what they've done, what they are doing, and what they will do. Perhaps write sternly worded letters to congress? Go on a show hosted by talking heads and trash them? Or maybe a daytime talk show hosted by old ladies? Publish tell-all tabloids? Maybe incite mass riots and incinerate Wall Street (That's where the real power lies)? We are not ignoring the sins of our government, but I do think the rest of world is being hypocritical when it comes to their own Governments/Religions/Cults. Take this attitude and shove it. As it stands right now, we are more divided than ever, we are more repressed, and many of us are just struggling to survive on a rapidly dwindling paycheck in the face of ever rising inflation. We are in survival mode, and sadly, right now the enemy is not only our own government, but some of fellow Americans as well. Ask any American, and they will tell you the sins of our Government, so STFU.

Problem is, the overwhelming view these days is ‘why should I listen to his views if he doesn’t listen to mine?’. Which of course gets us all nowhere, but it certainly does make our actual enemies happy.