re: Regardless of your political affiliation what concerns you most today?

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I'm not arguing for complete isolationism; however, if a world war were to break out, I'm perfectly comfortable with simply locking down our hemisphere militarily and using our navy to keep it at arm's length. I'm not saying that we couldn't source this or that mineral from abroad whenever possible, but I don't see the need to spend trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of American lives for them.

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it wouldn't just be for those things, though.

Like I said, there's more than just an industrial supply-chain reality at play in this scenario.

There's an international political reality at play and an international military reality at play.

I understand that you think we could self-supply everything we need without depending upon international shipping lanes remaining open, but I do not. Which means that rolling up the sidewalk and deciding we'll come out when the smoke clears is not a realistic position IMO.

And that being a given for my position, both of the World Wars we tried our best to sit out and were inevitably pulled into both. The first because the Germans kept sinking our shipping boats and killing non-military American citizens. The second we were directly attacked.

The same thing would happen in this scenario.

Whoever is the aggressor in a "large war" in 2024 is ultimately attempting to become King of the Hill, and in order to do that they would have to knock us off. All we do by refusing to stop it early is let it gain steam before we do something about it. We're going to have to fight. The only question is whether we fight a little and solve a small problem or have to fight a huge war to solve a mucg=h bigger problem.

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what concerns you most today?

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The overwhelming evidence that a huge percentage of the population is obviously suffering from various mental illnesses and it seems to be largely ignored by everyone.

A neutered police force, and thousands of violent, uneducated, disenfranchised young men raising themselves on the streets.

They all fall under one main category.

Mental illness.

To be honest pretty much everything sad to say.

I don’t mind normal democrats. There are only a few of them left

Tulsi and the Mayor of Atlanta are the only two left I know of

Liberal take over of America


Because everything going to shite is because of above.

LINK Jessie Kelly says what I am worried about too. Donald J Trump.

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Mass cultural Marxist indoctrination of children and young adults via the US educational system

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This one. This is how they have been able to slowly march communism/Marxism into every facet of American society, because they have beaten it into every kid's head for the last 60 years.

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Which is one of the stranger aspects of Trump and his supporters view on foreign policy that I'm trying to figure out. They think Trump will scare the rest of the world to bending to Trumps will and not start conflict of over fear of what he might do and are also of the belief we should stay out of foreign conflicts.

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No one's going to answer that.

I've been confronting them with that for six months, at least.

Just for the record, though, it's even more of a ridiculous self-contradiction than you stated.

The rest of the world didn't respect Trump just because of what they thought he might do, they respected him because of what he actually did when he was in office.

Killing Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Killing Qassem Soleimani. Classifying part of Iran's military as a terrorist group (which announced to them that if they didn't act right, he could attack them without Congressional involvement or approval). Bombing Syria (not because they threatened us, but because of the treatment of their own citizens, something any dim-witted populist worth his or her salt would ridicule as being none of our business if ANYONE but Trump suggested intervening in it).

He actually did those things, and I applaud him for doing them and I hope he'll do more things just like it if he gets elected again. Things like that save lives.

The problem is that populism isn't beholden to logic or consistency. Pointing out the self-contradictory nature of the populist's position on this is a waste of time...believe me, I've tried.

Because populism IS beholden to conspiracy theories and having a Boogey Man to blame things on. So anybody (except Trump, of course) who wants to intervene in any situation, no matter how much it's obviously the common sense thing to do, is trying to con the American people.

No amount of pointing this very obvious contradiction out makes any difference here. Populists have become what they once claimed to hate...mindless partisan hacks.