And let's not forget the impact of climate change. Droughts, fires, floods, all causing problems globally. Conservatives want stability but none of the policies that help create that stability, as if stability is magic. Can't have it both ways.
-
Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.
Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:- Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
- Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
- Access to private conversations with other members.
We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!
Poll: Trump would beat Biden today
- Thread starter PoetPhilosopher
- Start date
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I don't think it matters much.
People haven't much choice anymore in choosing their leadership.
Rather, it's chosen for them and it's out of reach for the common person to invoke any kind of change to improve this two party monopoly we have now into something past that which would make a difference.
Erebus
Well-Known Member
For God's sake, don't say that. You'll jinx it.
Trump had the advantage of a lot of stability from the Obama years. Our chaos today has a lot to do with the effects of trump policies: the lack of a pandemic response, the deal with he made directly with the Taliban and a evacuation agreement, failure to ramp up green energy, etc. And it was trump's poor handling of the pandemic that led to frequent lockdowns that ended up causing mass unemployment and closed businesses. Did you forget? Now we are seeing the trump-style policies doing damage in red states, with huge infection rates of Covid as mask mandates are rejected. The republicans offer the USA a recipe for death and more economic disintegration. Is it deliberate to make Biden look bad?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Look at prices now.
Each and every time Democrats take charge, the cost of everything suddenly skyrockets.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
You're conflating cause & effect and substituting partisan politics. It is mainly the opening of markets internationally and domestically as the pandemic lessened that has driven up prices. Supply is picking up but the lack of enough lower-wage earners and also the uncertainty of future events with covid that are the main causes. Once burned, places of business are being very cautious so as to not get burned again.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I'd like to think that but it's happened too many times now to be a coincidence.
And lockdowns were necessary to help save lives and prevent the spread of Covid which was not being taken seriously by the trump administration. Your grievances seems to be typical right wing extremist disinformation.
Okay, Borg.
Yeah, only "right wing extremists" (wtf does that mean?) would object to having the economy wrecked, millions of people out of work, suicide, mental illness, drug abuse and OD rates soaring, violence soaring, homelessness up, a huge amount of kids failing school, etc. And they were useless, anyway, because millions of people in the US alone were out protesting, rioting, looting and so on in the streets with no social distancing or masks, while being tear gassed and maced. But that's okay, right?
Last edited:
If the Democrats were to do something it would be to offset inflation. But they are letting the free market do it's thing, and conservatives ***** about the free market doing its thing. Can't have it both ways.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
It's a rich man's world.
And too many middle class conservative voters are keeping it that way. And they'll end up paying for it like everyone else.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
So what has the left done so far? All talk, no action.
Why?
They like keeping it that way just as much.
What they are doing is talking to republicans to get some bipartisan support for legislation that will help the USA move forward. Republicans are largely indifferent. I'm not is they intend to sabotage America to sabotage Biden's presidency, or if they just work for the wealthy and want the middle class to remain in its status quo of barely getting by. Since 2015 the GOP has been in a downward spiral and it's taking conservative voters with them, and in many cases the rest of the USA.
What I want to know is why conservative voters keep voting for representatives that give tax cuts to the wealthy and cut funding for our nation's infrastructure and other necessities. The middle class keeps getting hit with higher local taxes, like property taxes, because federal grants are drying up and there's less local money to keep up with the demands of improving services and infrastructure. So this approach will end up costing all of us more, and our income taxes won't come down as generously as the wealthy get.
Friend of Mara
Active Member
The fact that rural areas and conservative states have an unfair and bolstered EC value despite actual citizenship advantage isn't really the same as a cooking contest. Its kind of like being graded on a curve while everyone else doesn't get the curve. Its why we have had exactly 1 republican win the popular vote in my lifetime and yet have served 3 presidential terms. Its a glaring mockery of democracy and if it were flipped republicans would fight tooth and nail to end it.
Friend of Mara
Active Member
I also remember it doing a lot better at the end of Obama's last term than when he started. Does he get credit for that?
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
A cooking contest up to a point becomes subjective. An election doesn't.
I suspect the poll has ulterior motives, because the entire angle of having the election today is a very useless question as the election is done. Of course things are different. We were seeing many days with 2,000 and 3000 deaths a day with covid, 4000 a few days. Now we are in an upswing. That changes everything.
PureX
Veteran Member
And he's lost a great deal of support since then. Only the lunas still think he's their savior, now.