Some truths are self evident.
If your politicians are for sale - and you live in America, where everything is for sale - it’s the buyers you would do well to be wary of.
It matters because government has to pay interest on the debt; and the rate of interest the government pays on it's debt, has a bearing on the interest businesses and private citisens have to pay on theirs.
I beg to differ. The unchecked ambition of billionaire oligarchs, becoming increasingly open about having politicians in their pockets, should concern us all.
That, and wealth distribution matters. There is a direct correlation between the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer.
Well yes, but this is a slightly different argument. What you are talking about here, is people’s willingness to submit to the will of charismatic leaders, regardless of where they are being led, and regardless of the strength or weakness of their arguments.
The mass psychology that causes...
Tony Blair got re-elected in 2005 despite taking the U.K. into an illegal war, on the coattails of America. But that war, and the loss of faith it engendered in the population helped keep the British Labour Party out of power for 14 years.
Electors punish left leaning parties for warmongering...
You’re actually mansplaining abortion and bodily autonomy to a woman? Don’t you think that’s a subject women are better qualified to comment on than men, just by virtue of being female?
Well perhaps, but what I think you’re not seeing, is that the high handed contempt with which you and other Democrat supporters refer to Trump’s voters, is more than a little counterproductive. It appears to us outsiders that America is now so divided, that one half has no conception at all of...
Ah, well, that explains a thing or two. Early exposure to priests and religious hierarchies, is often enough to put people off religion for life.
As for being a doubting Thomas, only a fool is without doubt.
Inflation may have gone down, but prices presumably haven’t. So if inflation has consistently outstripped wage increases (which has been the case for over a decade in most of the world), working people are still feeling the pain.
That in itself doesn’t explain why Americans have elected a...
You sound like - and please correct me if I’m wrong - an American who thinks an aberrant form of Christianity practiced in his country, is somehow representative of religion around the world. It really isn’t; Bible literalism isn’t something you’d come across much even in Christian Europe. And...