The American Two Party system

[*michaelsean*]

(03-05-2023, 09:39 PM)hollodero Wrote: So first things first, as an European I forbid you to cut back on the military. You make us safe. And not only that, we still can make fun of you and your absurd military spending, call you names, feel all complacent and superior for we thought our pacifism through and have left ourselves defenseless. You have to be there for us, what if someone does not respect our peaceful selfs? Just think of all the jobs in the industrial complex, the one industry that will not be outsourced to China. And all the young men that can get healthcare through the military. No, please keep arming yourself... except when you vote for Trump again, then stop immediately, he scares us.

As for the other point, yeah it doesn't sound great and it's not really getting better through expanding on it. Limited government or not, political decision are to be made, concern society as a whole, are impactful and important and in a healthy democracy need a public engaging in a nunaced debate. Your bipolar political system is detrimental to that. Not great at all.

I’m still for helping our allies if they are under direct threat.

No I guess it doesn’t sound great. But we are diffent from Europe. We are raised to think differently. We look at the accomplishment over the past 200+ years and think we did pretty well. The gearing up for WWII was just astonishing. Put someone in the moon 50 years ago with calculators and a trig book. Hopeless optimism that we always seem to find a way I guess. I never feel a concern about the US and its ability to move forward. Arrogance? If I’m wrong then it was a pretty impressive run if you ask me, and something else will evolve. We still have the fattest poor people in the world so it can’t be all that bad.