Exactly. Thanks Tom. I view it as a backwoods dwelling Canadian and observe the helplessness under which you suffer. An extreme right wing party taken over by a complete self absorbed nutcase and a right of centre party pretending to care about the most vulnerable with a track record of an ever growing homeless population. Anything socialist scares the billionaires who run much of your country. Your people have no idfea what socialism is. I write as a once English Labour Party supporter turned into a Green Party candidate turned into a ballot burner. Socialism is providing water, sewerage, garbage collection, road and bridge building. But in much of the civilised world socialism includes free medical care, financial assistance, free education, state pensions. The USA claims to be the richest country in the world yet the only things you are top at are military might, numbers incarcerated, numbers of deaths by domestic guns. Compare yourselves with the quality of life held by scandinavian countries and you look like barbarians. And to my annoyance, you drag us down in some ways.
Justifying Israel's responce is agreeing with Israel that Palestinians must be removed from what once was Palestine. The most right wing Zionists want Palestinians gone or dead. This is what you support. Kill them like you killed the "Indians". And Canada feels weak to totally oppose you.

It will take getting big money out of politics. Sadly the U.S. has done a poor job of dealing with influence peddling by the wealthy.
Rank choice voting would make a huge difference but it's going to take clawing away control of the 2 major parties.

I just read this article in Common Dreams, one of the few groups looking at the USA from a non standard media way.

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Dick Chaney aligned with Harris, Liz Chaney has been as refreshing as Mary Trump but Dick should have been confined to living in a sewer, together with George Bush younger ( you millionaires are my kind of people).
What is right about criticism of Harris is that we really know little about what she proposes as we have largely just been fed feel good speaches lacking specifics. How will she deal with inflation or the housing crisis. Like in Canada, millions of refugees are coming in who need homes.. If you house a refugee rather than a citizen, is that right.?
Multinationals now decide prices. Wall street speculators buy companies and give themselves vast salaries as they slowly destroy the companies.Huge private groups take over housing and rentals and do so with no public interest but profit motives.
How does government funded by these corrupt interests tackle the problems.? One answer is make corporations not individuals and take all big money out of politics, but perhaps go the whole hog and make government money only fund elections and all elected paid average salaries with private money illegal.
$6,000 for every baby? Tax breaks are useless to the very poor who don't earn enough to pay tax.
Why is MAGA so strong? Because they are angry and they like seeing Trumps anger. Sadly they do not realise he in no way proposes to better their lives.
In Canada as well as the USA the numbers of people being kept alive by charities is ever growing whilst the numbers of miollionaires keeps growing.

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@rogerbenham I've seen that video before, and it is powerful. Too bad so few Americans have ever watched it, much less accept its truths or take them to heart.

@TomMcGiverin The sad thing is that so many Americans have a terrible knowledge of geography whilst thinking that their country is rightfully policing the world, rather than facing the fact that the USA is the world's bully that eagerly goes and interferes with the politics of other countries.

@rogerbenham You nailed that! When it serves our interest for oil or empire, America is eager to bully and invade other countries, when we aren't pulling covert coups to topple governments that are too lefty or independent in how they run themselves.. But you have to give it to our corporate media, who never talk about that part of American foreign policy. Just the usual cheerleading for empire and corporate America...

As with every prez debate, the losers are always the voters and democracy, since we never get the kind of moderators and informative debates of substance that we need, esp. with third party candidates always being excluded from the debates, and the corporate media moderators, purposefully staying away from any ?s that reveal how similar the parties are on most important policy issues.

Or to be called a human being.

@nogod4me Fer sure that too!

@nogod4me I generally shy away from personal attacks, but he does really seem to be a weird friendless caricature of a human being.

@Druvius it seems a contagious condition. running thru the gop from the right.