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Voter Angst and Political Ideology
President Franklin Roosevelt created "The National Welfare System" as a short-term program to provide work relief for millions of unemployed Americans following the Great Depression. Over the years it was expanded to include public assistance programs, which were embraced by "both political parties although conservatives began denying the fact during Ronald Reagan's tenure as president when the Republican ideology moved more to the right.
By Jerrie DeRose8 years ago in The Swamp
The Push for Single Payer
To not cover everybody automatically at birth is like denying citizenship to babies born in the United States from foreign parents. Our current atmosphere is not conducive to even contemplating single payer. As someone who wants to go to law school to become a health care reform activist, I’m still puzzled by why we haven’t thought of single payer yet. What single payer actually means is that all medical care that is considered necessary medical care is covered. This doesn’t mean plastic surgery but it means anything considered life-saving. We just can’t be like Canada, Spain, or South America. The United States healthcare crisis makes us one of “those types of countries” right? We make all our citizens pay for health care. They go broke trying to take care of themselves, often not having a job for months at a time.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
Equality and the Law
Equality and Law I see many calls for equality and I fully support the idea that any given amount of time, effort, skill, success, training, ability and application, should have one reward regardless of who is performing the work and expending the effort. All people should also be equal in Law.
By Peter Rose8 years ago in The Swamp
Coverup
They have always said that history repeats. As the United States continues to fall into disgrace with Trumpism being the order of the day it should come to no surprise to begin to see the similarities of what took place in Germany in the 1930s and what is taking place today. By order or decree Trump and the Republicans have already set in motion and by design directives that will be one of the most insidious objectives our government has planned in our nations history.
By Dr. Williams8 years ago in The Swamp
The Need for Universal Income
Universal income is a thing European countries attempt. Normally, most people make income through work, but some make money off of SSI pensions. This is a form of universal income. Universal income implies that everybody on the planet gets a small stipend. I’m shocked that some people in other countries do not have enough money. An African would be rich by their standards if they had what I have in my account now. They also use animals to demonstrate their wealth, so much so that there are organizations that help average people who have money in other countries buy Africans chickens who lay eggs, which gives people a means to trade the eggs for goods or other livestock.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
The American Folly
The American political climate is extremely volatile, and extremely close to an explosive, catastrophic meltdown. Our President can’t seem to take his thumbs off the screen of his smartphone, moving us ever closer to an all-out nuclear war with “The Hermit Kingdom.” Defending his actions the same way a child would after pushing a kid off the slide on the playground; not with an intellectual argument, but with denial and name calling. Our post-9/11 nation has become less safe than ever. We are a paranoid nation that is quite literally surrounded with artillery, with 112 guns for every 100 citizens. We, however, are not paranoid enough to question those in command of us; America was founded on the idea that we can freely speak up against whoever leads, but we’ve become too sheep-like to say something about the felonious nature of our government.
By Nicholas Stueckroth8 years ago in The Swamp
As a Taiwanese
One question that I'm most frequently asked abroad is: "Are you Chinese?" and whoever that question comes from, I always respond with, "No, I'm Taiwanese." Though, to some extent, this is the answer that some Taiwanese might say otherwise, and this has always been controversial.
By Amilia Chen8 years ago in The Swamp
How to Improve Government Involvement in the Unholy Trilogy
I have collected here three smaller arguments that the federal government has decided to lump together under the ATF. Should any of these need elaborated upon further, I may one day write an entire blog on one part of this, but for now this will suffice.
By Booferson McGrugen8 years ago in The Swamp
Canada Needs to Be Redpilled in 2018
2017 was an abomination of a year. Did you know the “most used word” of 2017 was “fake news?” Let me tell you, there is no fake news here. It was one hell of a year of the US legacy media spreading fake news, biased-liberal propaganda or just simply not reporting anything newsworthy. Yes, there was a lot of winning since Trump took office. The results show it throughout his first year. It pissed off the masses of people and the elites. Good! I am a fan of Trump, I like what he is doing, gets to the point and is being reasonable for the most part. However, I remain sceptical and cynical of anyone in that high status of power, especially the US President, always called “The Leader of the Free World.” I say that as an observing individual watching this phenomenon happen like I’m watching a movie to be critiqued afterwards. Last year, we witnessed the array of stupidity being memed and shared on social media, crumbling the sanity of our Western Society. I witnessed people getting redpilled last year and earlier on since the US election of 2016. I hope that this year more people will wake the fuck up and see the truth with how the gov’t is fucking everything up. The term “Redpill” means a lot of things to different people; I mean it as being awakened, enlightened, and seeing the truth. But, everything you will see can’t be unseen. You can’t go back to living in ignorance. You can try, I’d like to see you try, and I bet you will fail. So will I if I attempted to go back. America seems to have finally woken up.
By Liberty Against Tyranny8 years ago in The Swamp
America, Uncomfortably Yours
Disclaimer: I might offend a lot of people. Get over it. Hey, hardline conservatives (or as liberals call you: nazis/alt-right/white supremacists) and ultra liberals (or as conservatives call you: communists, snowflakes, dirty hippies), it’s you extreme righty or lefty f*cks who are burning this country down. Those of you who are so opinionated and polarized that you can’t see anything except your own party line. You hear “the other side” saying something and you immediately decide it’s “fake news” or not true.
By Panda Hirabayashi8 years ago in The Swamp
