Oprah only contributed one thing of worth to our society, and that is this gif

I was so pissed to see her at the DNC. I don't know what they were thinking letting her be there. Same with the Clintons honestly. Can we forget these people exist?

Astounding how fragile human civilization is

Then again, also George Carlin was produced by those American things.

He won both his elections by landslides. It wasn't even close.

1980

1984

There is a saying in politics - "You get the politicians you deserve".

Americans won't want to hear this, but you deserve Trump, Biden, Harris, the continual lack of affordable healthcare in your country, and a level of disdain for the average worker that would make many western countries' skin crawl.

To the right's credit, they have usually been good at sniffing out extreme views and rallying around "their guy" across many countries/systems. The left are notoriously bad at this, and it hampers legitimate issues like those raised above because you'll fight each other over issues that are less important than basic shit like a higher minimum wage, paid vacation that aligns with the rest of the world, universal healthcare, employment protection, etc. The system is unfair in America, but it's unfair everywhere else, so it's ultimately just an excuse for inaction/apathy.

At best, it's just a sign that the average voter doesn't want these things. That could be an education thing, or the average person just being against others getting help, but it again points to the saying - you get what you deserve.

The average American knows less about U.S. politics than the average drunk, laying in a gutter, in Sweden. The average American grabs a insanely false sound bite from Fox, trots off to the local bar and spreads that misinformation (bullshit to be more accurate), to his buddies all night. Democrats need to do simplistic, easy to remember sound bites, not policy discussions, to attract the average voter. This has been the Dem's downfall.

Now calm down my friend. We can't blame the public for such ills. Just like we can't blame the consumer for end-stage capitalism.

"It's not our fault! There should be laws against such things!", scream the downtrodden masses. The masses who vote for and finance the means of our downfall.

"You don't understand! We must legislate morality!"

Funny. When we were 80s punkers we laughed aloud at notions of legislating morals. "What a waste of time you idiots!", we laughed. Ha. Ha.

Nixon won his re-election by a landslide as well.

When I first started doing exactly this, (15 years or so ago) my mom was a die hard Reagan-er and enthusiastically defended all that stuff.

These days it's getting harder for them to defend

Pretty much every time I learn something new about Reagan it confirms my prior opinion.

What did Nixon do, besides the obvious criminal actions?

I read somewhere that Germany has a pretty good anti-propaganda education. That was a long time ago, so I don't know if it's true now. At schools here in the U.S., a buzz phrase for a decade or two has been to teach "critical thinking". I rarely actually saw it done. I feel like it needs to be explicitly about recognizing propaganda with current events and media coverage. Starting in like middle school. I know it'll never happen because every school will have to teach the bible or something. And parents would freak out about their kids learning to think instead of just being passively, or aggressively, indoctrinated at home.

Mmm, yeah, probably not not linked with art school. But, but to japanese guy who was supposed to become a sake brewer

She used to be for it, now she's against it. Funny how the opposite never happens. It's like there's some list of positions that Democrats have to reverse course on before they can be nominated for president.

It sounds like her economic plan includes expanding the ACA, but it does not propose Medicare for All or a public option. That's really not "opposed to socialized medicine" at all. She is proposing increasing healthcare subsidies under the ACA, capping out of pocket costs, and negotiating lower drug prices.

Okay, I had a listen. Basically his arguments are:

• People don't want it, it is forced through ruse by socialist politicians.
• It removes freedom from patients to choose their insurance, health care provider etc.
• It removes freedom from physicians to choose their working methods and living/practicing location. The state will control every aspect of their profession.
• By slippery slope, it's going to lead to the same for every profession.

So it's an attack point to impose socialism in America. Eh.