Posting links is not discourse. It doesn’t show that you have any opinions or understanding of anything that is going on. You are just like watching a video and and think “this is the video that will show everyone what is going on.” Has it ever worked?
Write something in your own voice about what you see that is happening in this country that is wrong and have a dialogue about it. Is it the national debt, uncontrolled immigration, health care costs? I’m not here to tell you what to be concerned about but I am curious what parts of what is happening in this country concerns you folks most.
In my opinion, this country has been going downhill my entire life. What concerns me most as a businessman is the turbulence of the economy. I have no idea how to plan for the future other than to plan on disruption and zero clue of what is coming other than seeing the price of gold skyrocketing which gives me a pretty good idea of what is coming. If I’m basically always planning for recession how can I in good conscience hire people or borrow money? How is that good for economy?
This administration has thrown everything resembling normalcy out the window. Whether that is legal standards, budgetary norms, who and how people are hired and fired, and oversight over anything related to government or how our tax dollars are spent. That should be concerning to anyone regardless of their political leanings. Guardrails are there for a reason. Would Trump walk up a stairway without a railing? But apparently he can drive this economy on a precipice with no guardrails without anyone thinking it is a problem?
Links are great and can be useful but everyone has their blinders on and will only look at or truly appreciate the media they already agree with. If humans use words and discuss the problems in front of them they usually come to the middle and find a consensus. Politics, media, and those in power pull us to the fringes so far apart that there can’t be discourse because the other people basically aren’t even human. They are other. They are beneath us and beneath understanding or dialogue.
I would encourage EVERYONE ON HERE to use words. Your own words. Not copied and pasted. Not videos or links. Read words other people write and try to see it from multiple perspectives.
50 states, multiple territories, and one kook steering the whole ship. What could go wrong? Figuring how to get this country back to a place where Congress had power and getting money out of politics is the only way to get back to moderates leading this country instead of the pendulum swinging back and forth from the right to the left as the populace run from one side of the ship to the other as they chase the crumbs they need to survive.