Actually, polls show that that most Americans support Single Payer Healthcare, but a Harvard Study showed that the laws passed in the US do not correlate to the will of the public, but rather to the will of the rich.Is it possible for ANY country to be united on anything? What do you define as united? A supermajority of people thinking something? In 2017 60% of Americans support gay marriage, and only 20% support lowering our defense budget. 70% of the country views NASA in favorable or very favorable terms. The national park service is beloved by almost 90% of the country. (these are sourced from pew research). People are in huge agreement that the military, space, automotive, technology, and manufacturing industries are awesome and that we are the best in the world, so that's something everybody can agree on!!! haha!!
Compared with the rest of the globe, a large majority of Americans hold fairly consistent right-wing views. It's just a different country than most. For example there are radical free speech laws compared to Europe and property laws that are quite favorable to individual citizens (owing to the fact that the USA is, huge). Taxing the public for support of projects such as healthcare or public infrastructure are really unheard of (with a couple exceptions) and things like widespread high-speed rail transport will never, ever be voted on by US citizens because a huge majority see zero point in it and will never open their pockets to pay for a common good.
Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau's approval rating hovers around 50% and the UK is consistently divided between two ruling parties in parliment. Most countries are similar, with a great majority of people holding similar views about certain topics and being vastly divided on the rest. The major USA political parties are really not too far off from each other on the political cross and vote fairly consistently (sans like 5 extreme issues where they hold polar opposite views: guns, taxes on business, healthcare, religion, and abortion).
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...er-health-coverage-grows-driven-by-democrats/ Wouldn't call 33% a majorityActually, polls show that that most Americans support Single Payer Healthcare, but a Harvard Study showed that the laws passed in the US do not correlate to the will of the public, but rather to the will of the rich.
That's in the framing of the question, when you phrase it as "Medicare for Every American", support goes to 60% (36% strongly favor plus 24% somewhat favor).http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...er-health-coverage-grows-driven-by-democrats/ Wouldn't call 33% a majority
and I did say, "with a couple exceptions"; the ACA is a rare move to expand healthcare coverage that people are actually fairly interested in keeping
but that's sort of besides the point I was trying to get across anyway
What is an Antifa Nazi?The only difference between the Antifa Nazis and the white supremacist Nazis is they want different a different pecking order for the intersectionalist racie-conscious utopia. Getting people to denouce white supremacists is easy. When do the denunciations of intersectionalist race theory begin?
You may remember them for smashing the windows of a Bank of America and a Starbucks on Trump's inauguration day. Or from when they jumped and punched Richard Spencer (a similarly destestable person) while he was making a video. They generally call for and support violence against "fascists" - which they define as anyone standing in their way on any policy at any time, and any police force tasked with preventing them from engaging in property destruction.What is an Antifa Nazi?
So then don't call them that, and reserve the term for actual Nazis.I guess they aren't really National Socialists (NaZi, or National Socialist German Worker's Party in the original translation) so much as International Communists, some of which are masquerading as Anarchist Communists, but on the matter of tactics they're the new version of Mussolini's blackshirts, except the blackshirts didn't wear masks to hide their identities.
nothing more libertarian than directly equating property damage with the loss of life. Inject that straight into my veins, baby
Getting people to denouce white supremacists is easy.
You can't have an antifa nazis. Antifa stand for anti fascists. I don't understand what your asking after that.America was more united in the 90s when I was growing up than it is now.
It turns out when an entire political party is in the thrall of identitarian intersectional politics, the discussion binary shifts from "What is equitable for most people?" to: "How do you feel about your skin color? How do you feel about other people's skin color? Does your skin color make you privileged or oppressed? How do we fix whiteness [actual question at Democratic National Committee Chair Debate]? Is segregating minorities into safe spaces to hold discussions a good idea [Actual policy being implemented on college campuses]?"
The only difference between the Antifa Nazis and the white supremacist Nazis is they want different a different pecking order for the intersectionalist racie-conscious utopia. Getting people to denouce white supremacists is easy. When do the denunciations of intersectionalist race theory begin?
Agreed.If you really think about it, unity is kind of a bad thing. When you have countries with so many people, if there's not a difference of ideas, then you become like Authoritarian China. As much as I despise the rednecks that are backwards on every fuckin' issue imaginable, the only way to ideologically unite such a large population is through propaganda and censorship.
I'll take the rednecks, please.
You mean like the loss of life that happened in Dallas when that sniper was inspired by BLM rhetoric to go to that part of town with the express intent to kill not one but several police officers?nothing more libertarian than directly equating property damage with the loss of life. Inject that straight into my veins, baby