PacMan01

Riots were more rampant under Trump’s tenure more than any president in modern history. Is it not reasonable to attribute some amount of responsibility to the president this amount of civil unrest occurred under?

The amount of people saying “fantastic” or “better-off” is really unsettling to me. You can support Trump, that’s cool, but Jesus...

Can you elaborate? In your analogy, I’m assuming you’re comparing America right now to being a “crisp Saturday morning”. With everything going on, how is that accurate?

America is doing fantastic in 2021? I can think of a lot of adjectives to describe the country, but fantastic is one I wouldn’t use. And how has the dems been in “full control” since Covid started? I really can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not.

Yea I know covid was a thing. It wasn’t preventable, tho personally I think the former president could’ve done a helluva lot better job at handling. But I’m not just talking about the economy. What about America’s image to the world or Americans’ faith in our government? How did he impact the US political climate?

Just a pretty straight-forward question.

I’ll look into him. I always found it weird that some of socialism’s most prominent critics were former Soviets. Many of them claim they were brainwashed by the USSR propaganda machine. I like the Gospel point you brought up. Do you have a source for that because I always believe the USSR tried to be as secular as possible. They even pledged to eradicate evangelicalism. Though many people that support socialism say Jesus was a socialist to some extent since his works was for the benefit of the poor not the wealthy. He advocated for redistribution of wealth. And Christianity teaches the love of money is the root of all evil; that’s opposite of the capitalistic notion that profit should be everyone’s drive to succeed. Do you think Jesus fits some criteria of being a socialists?

Independent is not a spectrum lol. Its either you are or are not. I’m not.

What I’m saying is I don’t think the top 5% should even have to pay 60% of the bill. If the bottom 90 percent of families hold less than one-quarter of all wealth, its no wonder tax rates are so progressive.



If wealth inequality is so large that it comes to that, there’s problems that exist in society outside of taxes. Considering the top %1 holds %40 of the wealth and have around %43 of the tax burden sound somewhat fair to me. Couple that with the fact that the top %1 benefit the most from government investments and subsidiaries, its no surprise that they would have a heavier burden. That said, I think the glaring wealth inequality is the much larger issue and progressive taxes is like putting a lousy bandaid on it.

The word tenets by itself?

I’m sorry. I’m trying to respond to so many comments. I appreciate facts and graphs. I respond back as soon I as look at your previous replies.

Tribalism is certainly a thing in politics. Contrary to your assumption, I’m an independent not because of my political leanings. But because I believe the party system is undemocratic in nature. I agree that voter bases from both sides usually get duped by the people they vote in simply because “muh party”. I wish we could do away with parties completely but that’ll never happened in my lifetime.

Healthcare quality =/= healthcare system. Our healthcare quality is unparalleled by anyone. I don’t think anyone is saying the quality of healthcare is an issue, but its the access the healthcare. Our healthcare system is what the problem is. Its not a leftist idea either. People across the spectrum in the US agree that our healthcare system is crappy for a 1st world, developed country. The dissension exist because people disagree on how to fix it.

Lol. I as left-wing as allowed in the current US political climate. But I think our tax system is mostly fine barring the tax evasion that’s allowed for rich people. The biggest issue is where our tax money goes.

That’s why I said I WOULD invite you to research the history of those countries, but instead look at the US. Of course, capitalism has mostly worked great for our country. But has it worked for everyone? I’m not going to list every problem in our country. But the incarceration rate, homelessness, and food insecurity stand out. Over 14 million Americans have food insecurity yet the US is one of the most wasteful countries. If capitalism can’t solve these glaring problems, what’s the next step?

Checks and balances. I think it can be applied to socialism and this should apply to every form of government. Even capitalism. The monopolies we have today in the US is not good for the consumer. Net neutrality for instance is an example of checks and balances against something that dilutes innovation. Yet, a lot of times when checks and balances are sought to be put in place, people call doing so ‘socialism’. So I ask, can checks and balances being installed in a capitalist society without being socialist in nature?