Okay on the first, though I prefer one 4-year term, staggered, with half of the incumbents overlapping with rookies, so there is both experience and f...
If there are no political parties, who says you need a special election for a president? You're a fan of voting for specific candidates, including ind...
Not giving them public platforms on mass media sure would save a lot of money, time, better tv programming, more interesting social media as well as w...
Those things are all true, and part of the reason government exists. But those services to rural communities are not really provided by the government...
They have done, and it was very good. The current state of American 'conservative' politics is far beyond caricature; it's a grotesque tragedy. The Br...
Where is this much-vaunted "free market"? Demand can be artificially created. See junk food + diet programs, carcinogenic consumer goods + opioids, pl...
Government protection and services for the average - non-rich - citizen cost public money and therefore rely on taxation. But the rich don't like payi...
Why would you assume that. It often entails changes in foreign relations, or public health, indigenous housing, environmental protection, elder care, ...
Why would I have meant that???? Different voters have different priorities; I know what mine are. If all of the available candidates have a clean reco...
I wish that distinction were made clearly enough in a dictionary and in political parlance for everyone to understand the same meanings. Or policies, ...
Or is liberalism attached to capitalism? As for lacking historical knowledge, we are all disqualified, being ignorant of or at least hazy on some peri...
I don't want to be combative; I just don't understand what you're trying to say. At least, I have some grasp of a hint at a theory, but I don't unders...
Conservatives complain of discrimination against them when they encounter social disapproval of their views. Liberals complain of being jailed, fired ...
What does? You said Who does this interrogation of whom before what power can consolidate, and how, without prediction, can anyone - everyone? - do th...
Not anymore. They're being relentlessly stripped of their voting rights, and such votes as they have, are discounted more at each election cycle. This...
You're right. The liberal idea has no meaning in the modern world. We're in disarray, fighting a doomed rearguard action. Evil will always win, becaus...
Therefore the support of free enterprise is not necessarily the support of capitalism. You might. Is it therefore not factual? Never mind: the words d...
I left it out of the postscript. Enterprise can be free without exploitation; enterprise can be free without relying on debt: value for value rather t...
Where? Anyway, Christianity is a latecomer in civilization. Very little in it is original. Previous organized religions were based on hierarchy and ob...
Very probably. It's a vast, vague, fraught subject. I wasn't trying to say anything more than this observation: In the historical sense, both profit-c...
In tandem from 4000BC Sumeria onward? If that's the case, no wonder we don't have a firm definition for the idea we're arguing about! Historically, ev...
No ism creates citizens. Citizens are first human beings: individually quite sensible and reasonably co-operative, collectively gullible and manipulab...
It's not failing; it's being beaten down by more aggressive forces. This is because liberalism can thrive only so long in a capitalist society. The es...
None. Theology is a systemmization and apologetics for religion. Some theologian always finds an excuse for whatever injustices and cruelties his reli...
Of course it isn't. Very little of the bible has even a remote connection to justice as we perceive it. God's original sin was inventing the very conc...
It has merits over the present American system - but that's not been working well for some time now, due to politics, systemic prejudice and money. Co...
I think survival is more a practical question. We won't - can't - all survive. What ought we to do collectively? That's kind of philosophical, but als...
Yes. No. Can you show the relevance of groundwater to the ability of tundra to grow food crops? Can you show the relevance of 200-year-old forest fire...
https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/environment/climate-change/climate-change-impacts-agriculture Yes, and it has been talked about. Need more? https://f...
Disagree;980870"]What are your science credentials? It's not a question of credentials, but one of finding factual information and reliable prediction...
Balderdash! There will be more deaths due to cold, heat, wind, water, snow, ice, droughts, hurricanes, famines and wars. You are allowed to talk about...
Things you can do for yourself and family: Make sure you have enough necessities - clothing, bedding, hygiene products, non-perishable staple foods, i...
Oh, that's changing all the time. But there will be more deaths from cold, heat, water, wind, ice and snow. Canada is not the British Isles. and 2024 ...
There is very little you can do about the situation through the political process in today's *ahem* climate. While a few states have sound policies, m...
We are already seeing many of the effects, which will intensify and accelerate due to feedback loops. Wildfires wipe out vast swathes of forest, which...
Tentative suggestion: start with the Social Contract. That concept is not hard to defend in an essay, but horrifically hard to defend on the actual gr...
I'm back from doing necessary tasks, several of which gave me a low-level pleasure in the completion. I read the links and remain unsatisfied. Absence...
I'll do that when I have a little more time. In this thread my references to pleasure were in response to this and the cartoon-laden quora post which ...
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