Hardkill

The problem with aristocracy was that it was primarily the rich and the political elites. Many of them actually weren't highly intelligent and were corrupted by status and wealth. I am saying what if you had the hard working intelligentsia who make a good living but aren't spoiled by wealth and power? You do have a point.

I really think now that most people in this country have no business voting in any elections. It should only be the most educated and the most culturally developed citizens of our country who should have the right to vote. What's wrong with that? If you're saying that leadership needs to reflect the public then why don't workers democratically elected the leaders of their companies? There is a good reason why that never happens. You know that. Even Osho said before that democracy is so flawed because it essentially means "rule by the retarded and for the retarded..." We need real meritocracy whereby you need to have credible qualifications to be elected as a member of Congress, to be elected a governor of a state, and especially to be elected vice president and president of the United States of America. Besides, most people don't really care that much about voting, especially these days. They want someone who can govern well, the government to have enough checks and balances, to not have corporate interests take over our government and the rest of the country, and to not have the wealthy elites become robber barons.

Yeah, but who nominated Trump for president in 2016 and 2024? The idiotic right-wing voters who are ignorant, racist, and xenophobic did. You even said before a number of times that too much democracy or too much populism causes complete and utter incompetent leadership.

The US has always been a flawed democracy or illiberal democracy. However, I am starting to believe that their has now been too much democracy. We should go back to having the major party presidential nominees in the United States chosen through a process dominated by party elites like what happened before the 1970s. That way the political elites could make sure that someone like Trump never gets nominated for president ever again. At the same time, we of course need to get rid of the electoral college because it no longer properly represents the will of the people. Without the electoral college neither Trump nor W. Bush never would've become president. Furthermore, I strongly believe that we need to revive the Fairness Doctrine in a revised, modern form, applicable to all media outlets in the US to promote balanced reporting in all media outlets in this day and age. Otherwise, I fear that our current media environment will truly destroy our democracy.

Too much sexual repression often backfires. I’ve heard some Mormons in Utah do orgies in secret.

Yeah, I am surprised that Mearsheimer argue for containing China, even though he has always been against the idea of NATO containing countries like Russia. Btw, Sachs did contribute to the devastation of Russia's economy in the 90s.

Mearsheimer recently said that he finds that hard to believe that will happen any time soon and that the US is likely to send in air and naval defenses for Israel.

Well, now it looks like Israel is going to invade southern Lebanon soon. Does this mean that Hezbollah Iran will now go to war to with Israel soon?

Well, their terrorist attack was absolutely unacceptable and what will this raise in global awareness to their injustice perceived accomplished in the end? Bin Laden's 9/11 attack didn't lead to greater compassion for Arabs in the end.

Ohhhh........I get it now. So, it wasn't just to start a war with Israel or simply to get revenge or power. However, Sinwar and his men are just power hungry like Bin Laden was. Btw, I understand that none of the arab nations or arab political parties in the Middle East really want to go to war with Israel and the US. But Israel wants to drag its allies, particularly the US into a war with Palestine, Lebanon, Hezbollah, and Iran.

I see. So, now the sentiment for the palestinians has lately been resurging across the Arab world. I wonder if wealthy Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar no longer have to feel tribalistic because of how wealthy and developed those countries have now gotten.

Damn. I didn't know that. So, have Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, and UAE been against the Palestinians or have they just never really cared about them?

None of the other Arab nations like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, or UAE have been doing nearly enough to help save the Palestinians.

Well I still gotta hand it to you. That's an unusual amount of cumming.

Didn’t you say a while ago that you used to be able to orgasm like 10 to 20 times in a row?

Part of why Hillary lost is because of those reasons you mentioned. However, what's more important to understand is that Sanders caused a lot of young people, liberals, and disaffected moderates and independent throughout the country to not want to vote for her or just vote third party. A lot of them thought the Democratic party rigged the nomination process against Sanders and that the whole Democratic was in such disarray which was really not a good look. He caused such serious discontent with the governance of the Democratic party. Consequently, too many voters throughout the country thought that Obama, Hillary, and the entire Democratic party let the country down. Therefore, there were more people in those Rust Belt states she lost who decided that it was time to vote the Democrats out of the White House and elect Trump and the GOP in.

Well, Trump is now the very old has been whereas Harris is now the knew young fresh face. Plus, Trump is a convicted felon with tons of serious federal level indictments and was found guilty in a serious civil suit for having raped an innocent woman. Also, Obama beat a white Republican man in a near landslide man in 2008 and then beat another white Republican man in 2012 decisively. The main reason why Hillary lost in 2016 as because Bernie Sanders divided and weakened the Democratic Party which spoiled her chances of winning the presidency. Lichtman took this into account with the keys. This time, the Democratic Party and have become very united and have become stronger than then a ever been in a generation. Lichtman has also accounted for this. Again, we don’t know how accurate those polls are. That being said, it still best to tell every out there to tell them that this is a very close race. Also, Michael Moore, who has had a really excellent intuition for elections including having predicted that Trump would win in 2016, that Biden would win in 2020, and that Dems were going to win overall in the 2022 midterms, says that the energy for Harris/Walz is looking really good in Michigan and many other battleground states. Btw, I am remember you saying that you live in Florida. What’s the enthusiasm for Harris-Walz been like in your area?

Can't say that Trump didn't deserve this. Also, maybe the Republicans are finally getting a taste of their own medicine with all of their gun rights propaganda they've been doing for decades.

Alright.....well let's cross our fingers and hope it's not too close. Btw, you don't in a swing state right? I ask because I wonder if you have an idea on how we could help get out the vote in swing states other than canvassing. I live in California, but unfortunately I won't be able to go canvassing in Arizona or Nevada.

From a campaign standpoint I think it's always best to say to voters that the race will be extremely close to help fully motivate voters to get out and vote. However, how do you know the polls are accurate now?

Do you realize how much error polls have? It's not just the margin of error that's shown in the polls. The sample sizes in the polls often don't fully represent the majority of all voters in the country. Moreover, many people don't answer the polls, especially young voters this day and age. Many people tend to lie or only tell the pollsters what they want to hear. Many people when they answer don't focus well on the questions. They can also easily change their minds based on how the question was ask of them or the mood. Plus, let's not forget that the polls also have been greatly underestimating the strength of Democrats since 2022 and have been overestimating Trump's strength since the beginning of the 2024 GOP primaries. Another thing is that polls more than a few weeks out from an election still do not have predictive value. Forget the polls, forget the pundits, keep an eye on the big picture including the governance of the party in power and the on the ground enthusiasm for each of the candidates. Nobody know for certain if this race will be extremely close. It may or not be close.

Biden won the presidency before in 2020 and back then he wasn't even as strong of a candidate as Harris is now. She also definitely a stronger and more popular candidate than Hillary Clinton was in 2016. Trump isn't president and JD Vance is not the vice president. Therefore, they don't currently have the levers of power that could potentially be used to overturn an election. Also, the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 further ensured that neither the Vice President nor a simple majority of members of both chambers of Congress can just overturn the election results. In any case, that's why we need as many poll watchers and lawyers as possible to fight back against voter suppression and any other kind of cheating. It's a good thing that almost all of the swing states have been run by Democratic governors. Only two swing states are run by Republican governors who don't like Trump or MAGA at all. Pretty much every attorney general and secretary of state in every swing state is either a Democratic or anti-MAGA Republican as well. Moreover, that's why we need to do whatever we can to help get out the vote as much as possible.

I think that a lot of moderates and independents have been realizing how much Trump and his party have never really cared about border security. More and more of them are seeing that he only cares about himself and doesn't even have a real plan for it. One big reason of why Republicans have lost so many of these special elections since 2022 is because they've been realizing how incompetent Trump and his party have been. If you ask people who don't identify as either Democrat or Republican as to exactly what Trump and the Republicans have done over the past 8 years, most of them will say that all that Trump and his party have done is cut taxes and sent only one set of stimulus checks for them during the pandemic. They can't even recall what he did to make the border more secure. Even a number of crazy right-wingers like Nick Fuentes feel like he turned out to be a fraud who let our country down:

I see.... Well, Trump is still fundamentally weak and unpopular. He has never come close to winning the popular vote and he's certainly not going to win it for the 2024 presidential election. I believe he will lose to Harris in this election. There seems to be too much going against Trump and his party now.

Democrats can and must win back rural voters. Otherwise, they will never be able to hold control of the Senate and the House in Congress for long, let alone never have a supermajority of Democrats in both chambers of Congress. A number of rural Democratic politicians have been successful with rural voters in recent years: