28-01-2025, 06:29 AM
I'm not 'in love' with all Democratic Party positions or ideals. Some, like support of Israel I detest. I usually vote third party, but Trump was simply too dangerous and I voted Democrat. After we get back to relative sanity and away from Fascism, I'd want to work for a multiparty system, end to the electoral college and something better than the Democrats - but I'll not live that long. Trump is an existential danger to the US and World, and we will be lucky if we can flood the House and Senate with Democrats in 2 years and impeach him [although Vance is equally bad] - it might just destroy the MAGA movement which I view as dangerous to the survival of humanity - not just the USA polity.
As for people always wanting to live in their own country, with well educated people who are more mobile that is not always true. I have often lived in Europe though born in the USA. Half of my life I've lived in other countries. The MAGA crowd speak only one language [poorly] and are afraid to even vacation outside of the USA, being mostly provincial and poorly educated. Yes, of course, some Democratic voters are also not well educated, but the average difference, along with how they rate on racism and misogyny scales is enormous. MAGA are also anti-science, and their religious beliefs I find regressive and dangerous.
On the long-term the Environmental Crisis is the greatest threat and MAGA/Trump totally deny there even is a Crisis! On the short-term I haven't seen any positive move by Trump. He is the worst human I have seen in politics and I find it frightening he has a following. His trajectory is parallel to that of Hitler, if different countries and times - and I view him as equally dangerous. Both parties are controlled by the wealthy and that is the problem in the USA. It has always been an Oligarchy. Before it was less dangerous to the individual, but always dangerous to the society as a whole. Many of the Oligarchs who backed the Democrats are shifting over to back MAGA and a new class of Oligarchs [High Tech] seem to have been captured by Trump, as he is willing to allow them lower taxes and fewer regulations - when they deserve the strongest possible regulations and fair taxation.
As for people always wanting to live in their own country, with well educated people who are more mobile that is not always true. I have often lived in Europe though born in the USA. Half of my life I've lived in other countries. The MAGA crowd speak only one language [poorly] and are afraid to even vacation outside of the USA, being mostly provincial and poorly educated. Yes, of course, some Democratic voters are also not well educated, but the average difference, along with how they rate on racism and misogyny scales is enormous. MAGA are also anti-science, and their religious beliefs I find regressive and dangerous.
On the long-term the Environmental Crisis is the greatest threat and MAGA/Trump totally deny there even is a Crisis! On the short-term I haven't seen any positive move by Trump. He is the worst human I have seen in politics and I find it frightening he has a following. His trajectory is parallel to that of Hitler, if different countries and times - and I view him as equally dangerous. Both parties are controlled by the wealthy and that is the problem in the USA. It has always been an Oligarchy. Before it was less dangerous to the individual, but always dangerous to the society as a whole. Many of the Oligarchs who backed the Democrats are shifting over to back MAGA and a new class of Oligarchs [High Tech] seem to have been captured by Trump, as he is willing to allow them lower taxes and fewer regulations - when they deserve the strongest possible regulations and fair taxation.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass