canpakes wrote:Yes, that’s it. Folks who are concerned about the functionality of planetary systems with an eye to the future aren’t really concerned for the fate and opportunities of their children; they’re just trying to make everyone poor and drive down everyone’s standard of living.
If those same folks would just concentrate on making our borders impenetrable to all immigration and building up the white ethnostate, we can instead achieve the sort of riotous prosperity and health as can be seen in the American South and Appalachia.
Excellent answer! As usual, Ajax doesn't know what he is talking about, and contrary to what he disingenuously continues to assert or imply, none of us want open, unguarded borders and unlimited or illegal immigration.
He is also clueless about what we mean by social democracy. Social democracies like the Scandinavian countries, now actually have higher standards of living than the USA, and (more importantly) have significantly better health care systems than ours (at half the cost), longer average longevity, much more highly rated public school systems, lower crime rates and happier citizens. I marvel at how he can continue to remain so stubbornly clueless and so willfully ignorant.
I and my family might have been better off, had they remained in Norway, but I still love my adopted country, its tremendous potential, its past contributions to the world, both cultural and scientific, and my many friends and relatives who live in it. But I can't help sorrowing over what hard right conservatives (most notably Trump and his wealthy, plutocratic cronies) have been doing to it in recent decades. They have turned against science and true progress, and are doing their darnedest to dumb down American voters and at least partially reverse the real progress we have made in civil rights and equality for all.
I was so elated and proud when we managed to overcome racial prejudice enough (I thought) to elect a Black President. Instead, his election seemed to reignite still smoldering racial prejudice in this country, which to my great dismay, was not nearly as latent as I had thought. President Obama may not have been the best or most effective President we have ever had, but he was a darn sight better than Trump, and certainly much less immoral and corrupt. He almost certainly could have accomplished much more had he not been confronted with hard right Republican opponents, like Mitch McConnell, who openly, boastfully and repeatedly vowed that his foremost goal was to do everything possible to make sure Obama failed at anything he tried to do, even programs and policies initially proposed by Republicans themselves. I strongly suspect that if Obama had abandoned support for the ACA and then claimed to strongly oppose universal, single payer health care, the Republicans would have immediately reversed their own stance and passed universal health care anyway, just to spite Obama!