America

[igrowone]

No not really, tariffs are set by Congress...not the President, he's just huffing & puffing again

Don't believe everything you hear, from new gun laws/DACA/tariffs it's all dribble to control the narrative.

it is just that
but it's the huffing and puffing that pisses off people in other governments
who will do some huffing and puffing of their own
we'll see what comes of it

 

[Bwanabud]

Yep, he thought he was pissing down China's back,,,and instead screwed S.Korea to the wall.

 

[armedoldhippy]

That's your opinion. It's flat out wrong.

and that is YOUR opinion.

 

[armedoldhippy]

the first pol to push for universal health care was a Republican. he has since ran for President but lost. anyone here besides me know this "left-wingers" name? lol...no bonus points, just checking.

 

[toxic hippie]

Who is Mitt Romney?

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

what is the average annual healthcare insurance cost in the USA these days?

....I know that it probably varies tremendously depending on various factors, but what would be the mean average cost per annum?

 

[Ready4]

Let me ask you this, what ideology has killed more of their own people in the last century than socialism/ communism. In which I find no decernable differences.

I mean Mao , Stalin , Pol pot , Hitler , mussolini ,ect. To be clear. Why dont you tell me the virtues of the sytstems that killed hundreds of millions of their own people.

Neither the terms "socialism" or "communism" apply to either the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party, neither have any place in any intelligent discussion about politics in the USA.
I did not extol ANY "virtues" of either, I listed specific examples
of ingrained SOCIALISM in the USA that are a part of our daily lives and that are taken by most Americans, as their birthrights.
Take the time to read it again.

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

History of the Communist Party USA

For the first half of the 20th century, the Communist Party was a highly influential force in various struggles for democratic rights. It played a prominent role in the U.S. labor movement from the 1920s through the 1940s, having a major hand in founding most of the country's first industrial unions (which would later use the McCarran Internal Security Act to expel their Communist members) while also becoming known for opposing racism and fighting for integration in workplaces and communities during the height of the Jim Crow period of U.S. racial segregation. Historian Ellen Schrecker concludes that decades of recent scholarship[6] offer "a more nuanced portrayal of the party as both a Stalinist sect tied to a vicious regime and the most dynamic organization within the American Left during the 1930s and '40s".

By August 1919, only months after its founding the Communist Party claimed 50,000 to 60,000 members. Members also included anarchists and other radical leftists. At the time, the older and more moderate Socialist Party of America, suffering from criminal prosecutions for its antiwar stance during World War I, had declined to 40,000 members. The sections of the Communist Party's International Workers Order (IWO) organized for communism around linguistic and ethnic lines, providing mutual aid and tailored cultural activities to an IWO membership that peaked at 200,000 at its height. Subsequent splits within the party have weakened its position.

During the Great Depression, many Americans became disillusioned with capitalism and some found communist ideology appealing. Others were attracted by the visible activism of American Communists on behalf of a wide range of social and economic causes, including the rights of African Americans, workers and the unemployed. Still others, alarmed by the rise of the Franquists in Spain and the Nazis in Germany, admired the Soviet Union’s early and staunch opposition to fascism. The membership of the Communist Party swelled from 7,500 at the start of the decade to 55,000 by its end.

Party members also rallied to the defense of the Spanish Republic during this period after a nationalist military uprising moved to overthrow it, resulting in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The Communist Party of the Soviet Union, along with leftist throughout the world, raised funds for medical relief while many of its members made their way to Spain with the aid of the party to join the Lincoln Brigade, one of the International Brigades. Among its other achievements, the Lincoln Brigade was the first American military force to include blacks and whites integrated on an equal basis.

However, the Communist Party's early labor and organizing successes did not last. As the decades progressed, the combined effects of the second Red Scare, McCarthyism, Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 Secret Speech denouncing the previous decades of Joseph Stalin's rule and the adversities of the continued Cold War mentality, steadily weakened the party's internal structure and confidence. The party's membership in the Comintern and its close adherence to the political positions of the Soviet Union made the party appear to most Americans as not only a threatening, subversive domestic entity, but also as a foreign agent fundamentally alien to the American way of life. Internal and external crises swirled together, to the point where members who did not end up in prison for party activities tended either to disappear quietly from its ranks or to adopt more moderate political positions at odds with the Communists' party line. By 1957, membership had dwindled to less than 10,000, of whom some 1,500 were informants for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The party attempted to recover with its opposition to the Vietnam War during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, but its continued uncritical support for an increasingly stultified and militaristic Soviet Union increasingly alienated them from the rest of the left-wing in the United States, which saw this supportive role as outdated and even dangerous. At the same time, the party's aging membership demographics and noticeably hollow calls for "peaceful coexistence" failed to speak to the New Left in the United States.

With the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev and his effort to radically alter the Soviet economic and political system from the mid-1980s, the Communist Party finally became estranged from the leadership of the Soviet Union itself. In 1989, the Soviet Communist Party cut off major funding to the American Communist Party due to its opposition to glasnost and perestroika. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the party held its convention and attempted to resolve the issue of whether the party should reject Marxism–Leninism. The majority reasserted the party's now purely Marxist outlook, prompting a minority faction which urged social democrats to exit the now reduced party. The party has since adopted Marxism–Leninism within its program. In 2014, the new draft of the party constitution declared: "We apply the scientific outlook developed by Marx, Engels, Lenin and others in the context of our American history, culture, and traditions".

The Communist Party is based in New York City. From 1922 to 1988, it published Morgen Freiheit, a daily newspaper written in Yiddish. For decades, its West Coast newspaper was the People's World and its East Coast newspaper was The Daily World. The two newspapers merged in 1986 into the People's Weekly World. The People's Weekly World has since become an online only publication called People's World. The party's former theoretical journal, Political Affairs, is now also published exclusively online, but the party still maintains International Publishers as its publishing house.

In June 2014, the party held its 30th National Convention in Chicago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA

 

[Hermanthegerman]

An interesting aspect of workers history in the USA are the Haymarket Riots. Anarchists!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

 

[Pinball Wizard]

what is the average annual healthcare insurance cost in the USA these days?

....I know that it probably varies tremendously depending on various factors, but what would be the mean average cost per annum?

I don't what the average cost would be...but..
Medicare for over 65 healthcare; costs over $1200 per year.
(they skim that off your monthly SS check) the bastards

 

[Wendull C.]

Neither the terms "socialism" or "communism" apply to either the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party, neither have any place in any intelligent discussion about politics in the USA.
I did not extol ANY "virtues" of either, I listed specific examples
of ingrained SOCIALISM in the USA that are a part of our daily lives and that are taken by most Americans, as their birthrights.
Take the time to read it again.

My reading comprehension is that of a 5 year old. Wasnt the second place winner, or first if you count wasserman**** and crooked hillary owning the dnc(donna brazille) a socialist. Or is he wrong about his own political persuasion.

You lefties are fuckin hillarious. Especially smokin blue moonshine...

Free college for all you dumb fucks...

 

[packerfan79]

My reading comprehension is that of a 5 year old. Wasnt the second place winner, or first if you count wasserman**** and crooked hillary owning the dnc(donna brazille) a socialist. Or is he wrong about his own political persuasion.

You lefties are fuckin hillarious. Especially smokin blue moonshine...

Free college for all you dumb fucks...

I love when people talk about free stuff, lime it just appears out of thin air. Nothing is free. It may be FREE to you, but someone's paying for it.

 

[Wendull C.]

Usually those working the hardest. I said a magic spell but im not a 1% yet. Lol at these lefties. I love it.

I have been conservative on monetary issues since i got my first paycheck. Then when they took 75% of my overtime, that was the clincher for me.

Fuck people. Pay for your own damn education bernie bros.. lmfao. Im goin back to gettin high before i run my pack of vicious mutts.

 

[Weird]

the only thing anyone should give a fuck about is the integrity of those who hold office in regards to keeping their promises and treating all Americans equally.

if you mouth piece for any other metric what is the benefit of your mantra? how come you haven't found your own? why treat politics like sports? easier to root cheer and bitch than participate in change?

And aren't you a fucking government stooge for eliciting predictable behavior that enriches their goals?

Think about the last one long and hard.

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

Can you name a recent politician who has kept all of their pre-election promises, and is held in high esteem for their integrity?....I can't, not on this side of the pond or on yours.

I haven't seen anyone that I would care to vote for throughout my whole life because they all seem like a bunch of self-serving crooks to me. How do you participate in change?....What things have you done to bring about any changes?

If you believe that your vote is in a faux-democracy, a monarchistic autocracy, and you have no confidence in anyone that you can vote for, then what is the point in voting? You would just be backing someone/some party you don't believe in.

Me, a government stooge?...Ha-ha-ha....get real man.

You can call me complacent about the political choices out there if you like, but since I believe that whoever you vote for the government gets in, and there is not much difference between governments in my experience at all, then what am I supposed to do? Should I form my own party and become some sort of politician, would that suit you?

*These days politics to me is more like a situation tragi-comedy than sports. I find it interesting, but ultimately predictable.

the only thing anyone should give a fuck about is the integrity of those who hold office in regards to keeping their promises and treating all Americans equally.

if you mouth piece for any other metric what is the benefit of your mantra? how come you haven't found your own? why treat politics like sports? easier to root cheer and bitch than participate in change?

And aren't you a fucking government stooge for eliciting predictable behavior that enriches their goals?

Think about the last one long and hard.

 

[moose eater]

My youngest son's and my healthcare policy (not counting my wife), pre-subsidy, with no penalties for pre-existing conditions, but some adjustments for age, with a plan that is supposedly a 'good' plan (but pales in contrast to insurance we received 25 years ago), comes to $22,200+/year. That's the premium, with a $4,500 deductible per person per year, and an annual out-of-pocket ceiling of ~$7,300/person/per year.

Industrialized, advanced nation?? Bringing democracy to the world?? (*I've got a bridge in a swamp I'd like to show you a realty brochure about, and maybe I can get you to purchase it, too!!)

We can spend $800 for a toilet seat on a C-117 to benefit the kick-back contracts held by the cronies of various pols on both sides of the aisle, we can spend $165 for a .89 cent bolt on an F-16, to benefit the same traitorous, self-benefitting pukes, and if you're a crony to a current President, we'll even pay INCREDIBLY inflated values for military flack jackets that get troops killed, so you can throw a $100,000.00 private birthday party for your 16-year-old daughter with Steven Tyler present (despite having ZERO history in manufacturing protective devices before your buddy reached the Oval Office), but we will bitch all doo-day-day about single parents receiving $700/month plus food stamps, or the concept of single-payer health care.

Fuck 'em all! Light the barricades and get on with it. Been waiting for decades, myself.

Old enough, and tired of the willful partisan (by both teams) blindness. Not since abolition, and the slaves who chose to stay on the plantations for fear of change, have I seen so many people willing to be screwed in the name of uber-confused patriotism that -really- amounts to supporting a neo-fascist, oligarchical, corporatist nationalism, fueled in part by folks using definitions they apparently have no real, or even basic, clue as to the meanings of.

what is the average annual healthcare insurance cost in the USA these days?

....I know that it probably varies tremendously depending on various factors, but what would be the mean average cost per annum?

 

[Borderliner]

I haven't seen anyone that I would care to vote for throughout my whole life because they all seem like a bunch of self-serving crooks to me. How do you participate in change?....What things have you done to bring about any changes?

to participate by choosing between the lessor of evils.

to bring about change by voting with informed conscience.

do you know of another way?

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

I feel you're angst, and concur absolutely moose eater....

All the average citizen is good for to those that really run the whole show is as cannon fodder, some sort of slave and/or as a consumer. They set the prices and we are supposed to pay their bills, and if we don't then they get other citizens to pay the bills to lock us up in their VERY profitable privatized prisons which they own and profit from with tax payers money anyway....

At least in the UK we still have the National Health Service, but it still costs us something....We pay according to our earnings. So those that don't earn so much pay less, and those that earn a lot pay more.

Borderliner: The lesser of two evils is still evil.....so I wouldn't bother.

The only other way I could think of that would force a change was what happened in France between 1789-1799.....or in the USA between 1760−1791.

 

[Cannavore]

what is the average annual healthcare insurance cost in the USA these days?

....I know that it probably varies tremendously depending on various factors, but what would be the mean average cost per annum?

it's the highest in the world

 

[Hermanthegerman]

America, for me it´s a place like this, Gram Parsons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4dIQITw5bw