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Curious about what the forum thinks of the first Republican debates. Who impressed you? What issues were discussed that peaked your interest in the candidate or got you thinking? I personally did not watch the debates, but I'm interested to hear from those on this forum who did what they thought.

As the nation celebrate its 245th birthday, it is increasingly and depressingly clear that America is becoming two very different countries: a blue one and a red one, with little in shared identity and vastly different health and economic outcomes. Polarization is not just transforming American...

Our economy is based on making a profit, so why does the country overall make a loss every year? Yes, there is a difference between which party is in charge, despite the frugal desires of so many Republican voters, the Republican governments lose the nation more money most years (balance of...

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Ben Sasse, the bravest politician in the United States of America. Every country need men like this man!

Republican Ties to Extremist Groups Are Under Scrutiny

Why McConnell Dumped Trump This is a really insightful article about the split that's happening in the GOP. I think one of the key points of the article is that corporate sponsors have started to withhold campaign contributions from the GOP after the riots and the subsequent votes by hundreds...

Article: 2020 Faith Vote Reflects 2016 Patterns I read this article, thought it had some interesting bits, so I thought I'd share. Here's some highlights: "A notable fact in 2016 was that exit polls showed about 80% of white evangelical Christians supported Trump..." "I think the Democrats...

The Right cares about money and the Left about people? By 'Left' I don't mean all Democrats, but the true Left. The difference would be seen if for example a pandemic disease hit the planet and the Right Wing countries would keep people at their jobs to protect the economy and take a...

I've talked with about 200 different people over the course of the last 5 years, random people pretty much, and many of them have made political points. What I have noticed is most people have a valid point. Yes. The most common error is in what is omitted - sure there are a lot of logical...

If the media is to be believed there are some political candidates on the Left, and there certainly are some on the Right. Which ones should run the country? Both. Incomes below 15,000 a year need some kind of benefits, real ones, not just empty promises as is often the case right now. We...

In a similar way, face masks are tied to the political conflict over our response to the coronavirus. Those who lean left politically tend to see the virus as a more dire threat; those on the right are more likely to downplay its seriousness or compare it to less deadly strains like the flu...

Was it: 1. When you picked 2. Ethical or moral beliefs 3. Income level/skills type 4. State you live in 5. Peer pressure 6. Parental pressure 7. Radio or TV you watch 8. Other In my case 1. Way back when I was a partisan I was a Blue because Ronald Reagan was President and I got a very bad...

All I hear about anymore is Blues that want to defeat Reds and Reds that want to defeat Blues. And each has an ultimate goal is to 'flip' a state. In the 2016 they threw mud at each other and there was plenty of mud to throw. But overall, how did they manage to split our country into two...

At present there are significantly more voters with attachment to the Democratic Party than to the Republican Party So the big question is how to maintain the balance to keep the public enthralled, interested, and waiting in hope that next time it will be their turn and that the public will...

Confusing: a lot of terms such as: left, democratic, progressive, liberal, democratic socialist, radical, reformist, interventionist, Keynesian, big government, Globalist, Neo-liberal and humanist are applied interchangeably despite the different and sometimes opposite meanings. Conservative...

The key difference between the Republican and Democratic parties has to be the voters, whom they will support and whom they won't. I think I have some understanding of this because in 2016 I switched from Democratic to Republican, but I'm usually surprised by the different takes others people...

Did you previously vote for or support Trump, but have changed your mind about him? If so, what was it that changed your mind? Do you remember a moment when you decided you no longer supported him?

When our marriage had come pretty much apart we were sent to a marriage counselor, and of course things got a lot worse. My spouse thought of the worst things she could say about me and I countered with the worse I could say about her. Years later I regained perspective and she did too. In an...

People are pretty good thinkers when they think together. I go into the Dem safe house and most of what is there has a compelling truth to it, and the same in the Rep safe house. The garbage 'information' pumped out by the media tends to disintegrate, that's why it has to keep pouring it out...