RE: What Happened to Compromise?
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to prepare legal challenges and state-level policies that counteract federal mandates.
Can you imagine what these lefties would have thought and done if conservatives had tried to do this? That said, I like this idea. Put precedents and mechanisms in place for all of us to use. This is sorely needed if you ask me. Put power back in the states. The more local our power, the better.
If not, they’re stupid, brain-washed, wrong, and in some cases even the enemy
Love and respect your neighbor, no matter who they vote for.
it would mean the unraveling of The United States as we know it.
I disagree. It would mean going back 70 or more years, back to when discussion was possible, disagreement was treasured, and localities decided for themselves what is right and what is wrong. Luckily, we are split 50-50, and no one party can dominate for long. I approve of these actions from Democrats. I doubt they are thinking that the red states will be able to reap the rewards of their work. Dems are very self-righteous, and assume any thinking person follows them.
I'm not so sure that's a good principle. If they are voting for me to be robbed and restricted by an authoritarian bureaucracy, they certainly don't respect me.
Does not your article support what I said? Politics and government are a charade, entertainment for the masses, population control by sorting. So why hate anyone for their voting habits? It's the worst thing to hate them for; by hating them you are buying into the ruse. All voters vote for robbery and restriction by authoritarian bureaucracy. If you vote at all, you don't respect yourself. Any way, that's where I was coming from with that comment. Voting for this or that is no reason to hate someone. We have been sorted, come together.
Fair. Most of us libertarian anarchist types, me included, once thought participating in the system was how we could bring positive change. Most voters aren't deliberately voting out of malice.
Oh Jeezus, melt downs would have happened everywhere! I think more power in the hands of the States is the way things will have to return to if want to keep our country intact.
I'm hearing from many people in the tech sector that with the coming age of AI/Robotics that we'll need to adopt a form of government that looks more like Communism since Capitalism relies on scarcity and the Age of AI will bring and era of extreme abundance. Some are forecasting a 20x increase in productivity and revenue.
However, I can't see companies sharing that abundance with the citizens without being forced to. The only way UBI/high-income-for-all will work is if those companies right from the start are forced to allocate a portion of their massive revenue increases from AI/Robots to the UBI-fund. Then the second challenge would be to figure out a way to protect it, to keep politicians from stealing from that fund, as they did with Social Security. We have lots of challenges to overcome in this next decade as we transition to this new economy. Not nearly enough thought and discussions are going into figuring it out. The time to do that would have been five years ago. I can't support any form of communism as long as people have to be in charge of it—corruption always creeps in.