OK.
So this is to even ourselves to the world? We are to be globalists even though we have sacrificed to make our lot in life better?
Since I don’t live in those countries and don’t have a clue to their citizens tax structure or territorial representation, can’t comment to how they are “making it”.
I have questions for you to answer. It has nothing to do with Trump or Biden. Be honest.
If you were the President and had the cure for cancer, would you offer it to the taxpaying citizens?
1) Yes, why?
2) No, why?
3) No, because I am attempting to destroy the tobacco industry and move us from tobacco dependence
4) It's a hypothetical question that is assuming an answer will prove your point elsewhere or the person who made it actually believes the POTUS has the cure to cancer and is holding it back from everyone. In this day and age, I wouldn't assume the asker doesn't believe such stuff.
If you were President, and could lower the cost of prescription drugs, would you lower them?
1) Yes, why?
2) No, why?
3)
Once again, this doesn't seem to be a legit question, but rather a way to use the answer to make another point. Why not just ask what you really want to know?
When violence happens in our country, who should be the most vocal in stopping it?
1) The President
2) The media
3) The local and state representatives of the area in which the violence occurred
4) There are 350 million plus in our country. Violence happens all the time. Every second of every hour. Measuring degrees of who is most vocal and what is appropriate "vocalness" would be very subjective task. Better wording here would help.
What is the best way to end racial violence
1) Activist aggression, threats and violence
2) Our leaders calling out aggression and using the system in place to move social norms?
3) A very complicated question that would need more than just simple answers. I've said on here that you all see the world as a very A and B answer place. It's not that easy. For the record, I'm not in favor of violent protests. However, we've got quite a few on here who think the two rednecks that tried to make a citizen's arrest and shot and killed Arbery were perfectly within their rights to do so. Scary.
In 1968, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas chose a segregationist over Nixon or Humphrey as POTUS. The people who voted in that one that are still alive are your mothers and fathers or grandmothers and grandfathers. The idea that their views haven't been passed down or had no effect on those they raised is lunacy. I'm not saying our moms and dads and grandparents are horrible people. It would be a miracle if they were not racist based on the environment they grew up in. Just saying that thinking doesn't die because the feds made us all integrate.
The orange counties are George Wallace counties. The darker the orange, the more heavily they voted for him. Pinkish ones are Nixon. Blue is Humphrey.
I graduated in the early nineties. My public high school still had a segregated prom and homecoming court. The idea that two decades removed from the Civil Rights movement everything was great was a myth. The idea that two decades removed from segregation still in the schools to some degree and everything is fine, is also a myth.
Should our leaders call for a stop to violence? Yes.
Using the system in place to move social norms? Yes, but it's a slow one. And if that movement is a snake, the South is always the tail, obviously. Listening to Southern non African Americans on how to fix racism has not been the best idea.
Is our Constitution racist and unfair, or has the misuse of the Constitution by man, been racist and unfair.
The Constitution means different things to different people these days.
To some, the first amendment is crap unless it's their view of what it is. We find that on both sides.
Constitution works for me, but it hasn't for some people. I mean I'm not sure how you argue against that. Doesn't mean it should be done away with. But I can understand why an African American may not think it protects him/her very much. The people who wrote it were all white and slave owners in many cases. So you might be able to see why some people of color aren't crazy about that.
What would be great if the same people who say it's crazy to expect the Founders or Abe Lincoln to think like an American who has grown up his whole life in an integrated society, would by the same token admit that growing up in a society only a few decades removed from segregation, Jim Crow, etc. might affect them the same way those societies affected Washington, Jefferson and Abe.
Speaking as Christian, the Bible is rife with social sin, but it rarely is addressed in today's society where we only consider it on an individual basis.
If your child is drowning in a pool, do you
1) Save your child and teach the child using that experience as a basis
2) Allow your child to drown to prove the unsafe characteristics of a pool and attack the pool company in the media
Once again, just ask your question. I feel like I'm talking to a poor man's Ben Shapiro.
If you were freezing to death in the mountains with no help in sight, would you build a fire to keep warm?
1) Yes, to stay alive
2) No, it kills the climate
Once again, a silly question. Just ask what you really are getting at.
Just curious.