re: Is the average age for the Poli board really 65+?

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I see you’re gobbling the MSM’s (and UN’s) tripe about “measured” response. It’s the very fact that Israel was too soft in the past that’s allowed Hamas to keep doing this stuff.

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Fyi, Fox news is still main stream media.

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If you don't already start a habit of reading.

Read to learn new things. Read to formulate IN YOUR BRAIN the neural connections of new words, new ideas, newly learned concepts and facts.

When you find a word you dont know, or dont know it well, stop then, look it up, find its meaning.

When we do those things we exercise the absolutely wondrous mechanisms of our brain, its definition capabilities, its storage and recall functions, and our own memory functions.

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WTH happen to potatus? Why don't they have him on a reading program, he's in severe need of this therapy

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Also, as I've aged I can see thru bullshite easier.

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If this were true, wouldn't all arguments cease as the crowd gets older? Strangely I've not found that to be the case. Gettig older means yor certainty in your beliefs solidifies. It's no guarantee those beliefs are the truth, just that your experience tells you they are.

I’m in the second tier, but yeah, wisdom speaks while youth is still getting its pants on.

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The older you are - the more you know where this shite is headed. The younger you are the more you are likely to say “we all want to live in peace!!!” It’s cute. But extremely naive.

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On the flip side, younger people have less investment in the way things are. They are more likely to advocate for large scale change or dismantling a system entirely because they don’t have a stake in the status quo. If desperate enough, the youth will revolt because they won’t see any other options.

I am aware how much younger and less evangelical I am than the average poster here (and I’m not THAT young). It is very easy to see how old posters are based on their responses regarding certain issues:

1. Housing prices. It is obvious that most posters here haven’t bought a house in at least 20 years. They’re completely out of touch regarding how expensive housing has gotten for even the smallest, crappiest, and furthest out from one’s job’s properties. They assume the youth are greedy spendthrifts who don’t want to settle for a small starter home when every economic statistic shows that the youth are working longer hours for less pay relative to inflation with housing prices that have grown far in excess of inflation. They see no reason to enact reforms to fix what the federal government broke because they do not see that the status quo does not work.

2. The same is true for the cost of higher education. They just see it as kids not wanting to work throughout college and pay back their loans rather than institutions of higher learning essentially operating a government funded ponzy scheme complete with predatory lending practices and sham programs that do not lead to jobs capable of paying back loans that are not dischargable in bankruptcy and have interest rates high enough to never get paid off making monthly near-minimum payments. They fail to recognize that the government created a problem, and therefore, the government must be involved in the solution because the status quo does not work.

3. They claim to be for small government until it’s time that someone wants to drink, gamble, make noise, open a bar, date someone of the same sex, smoke a plant, or open a business without the government’s permission. The reality is that too many “small government conservatives” are actually authoritarians, just about different things than the democrats are. They might not care about your gas stove or what kind of light bulb you use, but they damn sure care about who you date, where you go to church, what you listen to, and how you dress. Federalism is important, the federal government was designed to be limited. Problems are best solved by the people closest to them, but that doesn’t mean authoritarianism is any better when carried out by a local paster turned mayor vs a socialist president of the United States. It is this posing as the party of individual liberty and personal responsibility while actually acting as a party of paternalistic, theocratic, nanny-staters that is why, electorally, the status quo does not work.

4. They’re not “immune” to propaganda. They were just raised under a different form of propaganda. Their propaganda taught them to love the state because it was the only thing protecting them from nuclear annihilation and communist slavery. Today’s propaganda is simply different, with a different distribution system that most people on this board simply don’t use. Print journalism is dead. No one under 30 can afford cable, let alone watches it, and no one under 25 has a Facebook page for any reason other than sharing wholesome photos with their elderly family members. All of the action is on YouTube, TikTok, and to a lesser extent, X. Consuming a different set of propaganda doesn’t make you better informed, just differently indoctrinated. Everyone can see the world is going through a crisis, and some propaganda wants you to blame Russia, some China, and some other Americans. The reality is that all of these problems are macro-economic issues created or exacerbated by our federal government’s administrative state, which operates wholly independently from any elected official’s oversight or authority. It doesn’t matter who you vote for. The guy who decides the requirements for what slaughterhouses can operate is still going to use the requirements that all but give smithfield and tyson a monopoly. You have no say. You maybe never did. Blaming minority groups or other countries will not help you when the problem is insulated within a fully rogue federal government. The status quo doesn’t work.

5. They do not understand the opioid epidemic. The overwhelming majority of the people OD’ing and/or becoming zombie addicts were not partiers. They were regular people who got hurt in a car accident or at work. They were prescribed a drug they were told wasn’t addictive at the amounts they were prescribed. This was proven to be a lie. They became addicted despite only taking the prescribed dosage. Once that dosage ran out, they turned to the streets for their fix. Why? Because addiction hijacks your decision making in your brain. What makes matters worse is 95% of opioid addicts relapse after getting sober. In the name of profits for drug companies, our government got an entire generation hooked on drugs and now ignores their deaths by the tens of thousands while millions more are homeless. This is a problem created by the FDA. The status quo does not work.

These are just a few examples.

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this is a joke right? Y’all worship at the altar of Fox News

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Fox isnt pro MAGA. Leftists have their ideologies all screwed up.

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Fox isnt pro MAGA. Leftists have their ideologies all screwed up.

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the point is that the majority of this board consumes their news from ONE biased outlet. That’s dangerous.

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I am anti-war

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Wars have to be fought. If someone attacks us, I am not anti war.

I'm just anti interventionist.

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the point is that the majority of this board consumes their news from ONE biased outlet

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I doubt it. MAGA has been at war with FOX for three years.

They've moved on to other things.