I know scapegoating Americans has become a community pastime, but perhaps you could rephrase your comment with more substance or evidence so as to avoid coming off so elitist and prejudiced.
Meat has been a global climate catastrophe wrapped in a corn tortilla. The production of meat is literally killing us, and I'm sorry but its worth taking away traditional cuisines so that humanity doesn't go extinct.
I'm afraid that the history of my country will be permanently revised and that my children will learn the revised version instead of the patriotic one. I fear I'll have to correct everything they learn about history and language.
I'm afraid that the public school system and the universities will convert my children from happy and productive citizens into angry activists.
I'm afraid that a portion of most products I buy will wind up supporting causes that are detrimental to my own interests, as the left has somehow gained control of the board rooms of major corporations.
I live in a dark blue state under lockdown and I fear we'll never truly be freed from it. I worry that the left will once again dispatch extremists to my neighborhood because of some unpredictable future event that sets them off.
I believe the left hates men, boys, white Americans, and Christians. I'm most of those things and you couldn't induce me to vote for a Democrat even if you paid me FIRE money right now.
I know that only answers your first question. I don't know who DeJoy is. I don't care about the post office. And I don't care about his response to the virus. In my opinion, the government has no role to play in virus handling.
I don't support the president because of his polices. I support him because he opposes the left. The only thing he could do to lose my support is to cave into them.
I've disengaged from the news since shortly after COVID started so I had to DuckDuckGo what you meant. I see a 38 minute interview on YouTube that I could watch, but unless in it he announces his support for abolishing the police or canceling American history, I doubt it would change anything.
The reaction to his election traumatized me. For the first time in my life I felt like a foreigner in my own country.
I disagree with most of his policy positions. His tax cut was too small, his insistence on opening the public schools is baffling to me given how the public school system manufactures his opposition. He was never able to build the wall, although I expected that. Ultimately I can work with my disagreements with him and the right more broadly. There is room for compromise there.
But watching the left since 2016 and especially recently after the death of George Floyd, policy matters don't concern me much anymore. I'm afraid of the left. I feel intimidated by their vast cultural and social power. And I'm going to vote for someone that unapologetically opposes them.
I know that doesn't really answer your question as you asked it. But there it is anyway.
People should have feel the burden that taxation places on them.
Payroll withholding already artificially dampens the strain that taxation imposes on everyone that earns a paycheck. Issuing a pre-filled out form is another step backwards.
Paying taxes should be burdensome and uncomfortable.
1. It never seems to solve the problems it claims to address. When evidence against it is brought to bear, its advocates move the goal post.
2. There is never an established "end state." More and more areas of life magically become "rights" and then get added to its ever increasing responsibility.
3. It is commonly used as a means to buy votes and sow social dissent by convincing a receiving group that a productive group wants to take their livelihood away.
4. The US government is arguably not representative enough to be tasked with providing it. The nation is too large, the people are too divided, and the political system is too corrupt.
5. It relies on confiscation by the aforementioned unrepresentative entity. And those that never use it shoulder a disproportionate burden of its funding and implementation.
The idea that a social safety net is a Universal Good Thing needs to be reevaluated.
> An engaged and well-informed public has always been the foundation of our democracy
Is there even a shred of scientific evidence to support this hypothesis? I see it in print so often that it appears to be a axiom that is considered so correct as to be unquestionable.
Associating homemaking and raising children with oppression is probably part of the reason why modern society is not reproducing.
You may receive a comment soon regarding the opportunity cost of your wife staying home. As if she is an object of economic activity who is unfashionably compelled to pause her value generation in order to raise kids.
I would be interested in hearing arguments as to why the social contract doesn't obligate all able men and women to replace themselves for the perpetuation of its other benefits.
This statement is equally ideological. Proximity to others imparts no responsibility outside what individuals choose to take on for themselves.
You may subscribe to it, but not everyone has to. Most of our social unrest today can be laid at the feet of those who insist otherwise.