Is there anything you'd be willing to fight a war for?

[Eric the Green]

(11-10-2022, 04:39 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(11-10-2022, 04:29 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: And no-one thought such a terrible contagion was going to happen in The West.

Then they were fools. I viewed it as a strong possibility since I was about 15. I lumped them in with the other fools saying things like "housing prices always go up", "there will never be another major world war", and "you can be whatever you want as long as you go to college".

People want to be disrespectful to those who make obvious calls in advance, only to turn around and say "You need to let us off the hook! There's no way we could have known!"

There was no way to anticipate the severity of this outbreak, or that we would have a president who wanted to ignore it and make it worse and to dismantle the provisions that Susan Rice and others during the previous presidency had put into effect to meet pandemics.

There is no excuse for saying that the government should not have responded to this pandemic with measures AT LEAST as strict as those put into effect. You should also have anticipated strong "draconic" measures could be taken in The West for some reason. It has happened before. Just another strong possibility to lump in with the others you mentioned.

Quote:It has everything to do with the reality we are currently facing, including both the current post-covid depression, and Europe's economic collapse (Putin's invasion has made it worse, but it was happening at least a year before that).

Freedom over security is more than just a slogan. It's a principle that hundreds of thousands of Americans have given their lives to defend: the blood of patriots watering the tree of liberty. It is why we have risen to become the most powerful nation in world history. Whether we continue this proud history is up to my generation, and I am not optimistic.

"freedom is more important than security" is just a slogan that has nothing whatever to do with reality. What is freedom? What is security? How can you separate them? And you are the ammosexual who thinks guns are "freedom" because they provide "security", when in fact they provide neither.

There is no post-covid "depression", although Republicans use "inflation" just for political purposes and have no answer for it at all.

Hundreds of thousands of US Americans have given their lives for democracy, but it is being severely betrayed by the political Party that claims it stands for "freedom". "Defending freedom over security", as you call this armed fighting, is always carried out in the name of "national security" too. And the US has not fought a war for the freedom of the US since World War II. I am struggling with optimism too. The Republicans want to take away voting results from the people and give it to gerrymandered legislatures that they themselves imposed upon the people. They do this powered by a misinformation campaign unprecedented in the world since the days of Hitler. And this extended from covid and vaccine denials to election denials and climate science denials too. There is nothing more threatening to our nation today than this campaign.

The US has been a militarized bully since 1946, a victim of misinformation conspiracy theory since 1966, and a blind addict to trickle-down economics since 1980, and these facts have reserved the "power" of the "most powerful nation in world history" to a tiny fraction of the richest and most powerful people within this nation, and has made it the most unequal developed nation and worst developed nation in the world on all social and health scales.

I'd like to be proud of my country, but I want it to do right and not wrong.