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In our current political environment, many Americans feel disconnected, unheard, and worried about the future. Amidst the noise of extreme views and sensationalized media, it's important to recognize that most people in this country consider themselves moderate—neither strictly conservative nor liberal, but practical and balanced in their beliefs. Today's political scene often feels like a battlefield dominated by the loudest, most extreme voices, overshadowing the reasonable majority. This polarization misrepresents the essence of America and disregards the principles of our Constitution. Our nation is founded on human rights, personal freedoms, and the belief that every voice counts. Yet, many citizens feel their opinions are being overshadowed by divisive rhetoric and sensational media coverage. The middle ground, where most Americans stand, is a place of reason, compromise, and understanding. It is here that we find the potential for true progress and unity. Our country needs the middle to step forward and be heard, to reclaim the narrative from the fringes that seek to pull us apart. The media, too, has a vital role to play in this. Rather than feeding the flames of division with sensationalism, it must strive to present a balanced and realistic portrayal of our nation’s challenges and opportunities while celebrating our successes. The Constitution grants us the rights to free speech, assembly, and the pursuit of happiness. These rights are meant for all Americans. It is our collective responsibility to ensure these rights are upheld and our democratic processes reflect the will of the people. When the middle is ignored and pragmatic voices are sidelined, our democracy suffers. As Americans, we must demand that our media and politicians focus on issues that matter to us all—healthcare, education, economic stability, and the preservation of our inalienable rights. We must advocate for policies that reflect the values of the many, not the extremes of the few. In recent years, fears have grown about freedoms being eroded for women, the LGBTQ+ community, and non-Christians. Embracing the middle ground is the key to healing our divisions and building an inclusive, just future. It is only through embracing the middle that we can hope to heal our divisions and build a future that is inclusive and just for all. America needs the middle now more than ever. By elevating the voices of reason and moderation and reducing sensationalism, we can guide our country toward unity and progress. Let's commit to this path and ensure our democracy truly reflects the people it serves.

I don't doubt this is true. I've lived amongst some of the most racialized parts of the country and was a bit shocked to discover that racialized Canadians are generally more racist than white Canadians, especially against other racialized groups. Tribalism is a major threat to western countries and will only increase in scope.

Most sane people can see what's happening. Yet there are those who keep on pushing this stupidity. Then there are those whom constantly want someone to define woke.

WTF? Read the OP. Read the article I posted. This is not a one off comment or aberration. Again, multiple comments, multiple contexts and multiple classes of veterans. And no, he insulted all POWs. His argument was that people who get captured aren't heroes, instead he "likes" people who weren't captured. That's not just McCain, it's every POW.

Except, it is not. This is the only example you got and the one Biden and team have to repeat over and over again. BS what? He was insulting McCain, not all POW's. Years later? Yeah right. And to the point of integrity, if he felt like he did, he should have said something then. What exactly is it that I am twisting myself into pretzels about here? My position is quite simple and factual. You are the one who is trying to contort an alleged bad comment said that most people deny him saying into something more than it is. Why don't you believe the majority of his closest confidants who reject this allegation? I deal in facts. You, not so much. What is this "disdain for service, service members you speak of? So far you have him insulting McCain and an allegation he said something that most people say he didn't.

When you think about it they had 51 of quite possibly the most powerful people besides the president of the United States in the world openly lie about a laptop and then hide it under "classifications". Why is it a stretch to believe they don't rig US elections? They do everywhere else

LOL You are dismissing this affidavit before any investigation because it is 3.5 years old. Trump did not brag about doing anything to her on tape.

And of course, you thought the same thing with E Jean Carroll coming out some 20 years later?

This is very true that political system is failing America. It is detached and runs for its own benefit rather than that of the citizens. But one has to remember always, that democracy is not a miraculous supermarket but a tool, instrument for free citizens to run their affairs according to their ideals and principles. No tool will run forever if left neglected and unattended: it will rust, dust and corrode. So, it is the responsibility of the citizens to clean and maintain their democracy, if they want to keep running their affairs to their ideals and principles.

The whole point of a debate is to read what the other person is saying, and respond to that. You're not doing that. You're just full-quoting me and repeating yourself, without even acknowledging my arguments about your (IMO) poor reasoning. As as an example of your bad conclusions, just refer to anything regarding these maps and the near-zero progress the Russians are making. You're definitely not reading these right. Here's an example of "recent gains" in the last 24 hours. They barely ever show up on these maps, because they're hard to confirm in that short a time span. As for Chasiv Yar, the place where Russia is concentrating hardest, here is the ACTUAL progress Russia is making, according to YOUR SOURCE. In 65 days, the Russians have moved forward 2.7km. That's 41m a day, and this is where Russia is advancing the fastest, and concentrating the hardest. Sad Vlad is throwing away 1000+ of his worthless donkey soldiers daily, so the Russian army can advance the distance I walk to go have a beer across the street on my neighbor's porch. At this pace, it will be two years before Russia reaches Kramatorsk, the closest city of any importance, and they'll lose over 600,000 more soldiers (4x the population of Kramatorsk itself). "Advancing is advancing" is utter bullshit, and I think you know that. I've said it multiple times before, and you've ignored it over and over, but Russia runs out of manpower and equipment long before Ukraine runs out of land at this rate - and this is with US aid delays.

Yeah, except that has science behind it. Whereas your ideology is powered more by "muh Feels". It's a noticeable difference.

Talk about "suspicious," 3 1/2 years later some rando decides to file an affidavit. And you want an "investigation." That ship sailed LONG AGO. Duh Nothing to see here. LMAO

This topic comes up occasionally and all we see from the Left is denial. We almost never see it mentioned in the media, especially an admission that it happens all the bloody time and with growing frequency now as we bring in millions more racial/ethnic people from the third world. Besco has found ethnic self-identification is powerful in Canadian elections. The largest groups — South Asian Canadians and Chinese Canadians — tend to support candidates of their own ethnicity, Besco discovered, regardless of the voters’ political ideology or even their own self-interest. Saying the quiet part out loud here. We all knew it, of course, though the Left denies it. “Racialized Canadians are more likely to support candidates of their own ethnic group and racialized candidates more generally. Racial and ethnic identities matter, not only in elections but in nomination leadership races (and) social movements. These identity groups are deeply influential in politics,” writes Besco. But more broadly, it isn't just Sikhs voting for Sikhs or Indians voting for Indians. It's 'racialized people' voting for anyone racialized first. And even those who acknowledge it never condemn it. They just shrug and say 'that's the way things are'. But can you imagine the outrage if someone suggested they should only vote for the white candidates? And as millions more such people flood into Canada what is that going to do to representative politics in future? When more than half the population are immigrants? Because the agenda of a lot of these groups is not in harmony with the best interests of Canada. That's especially true of Muslims and Sikhs. Douglas Todd: Canadian politics becoming increasingly tribal | Vancouver Sun

#metoo Or as I call it, pound me too. It's funny how every woman is to be believed...unless they accuse a D.

For my fellow conservative here who want me to put this leper in his place, STOCHASTIC means RANDOM. randomly determined; having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analyzed statistically but may not be predicted precisely. Thing is, you !diots don't even know the DEFINITION of climate, so you can't possibly predict anything. Weather and CLIMATE are equally random or (since you searched ALL OVER THE INTERNET for a word you imagined with impress us) STOCHASTIC. Thing is, you Nazis somehow think tax increases will change the temperature of the Earth as well as keep it from snowing in Key West in July. And you wonder why everybody says you people are !diots. No it hasn't. AGAIN, words mean things. Rush Limbaugh tried to tell us that. Climate hasn't changed since the LAST ICE AGE, which occurred 11,000 years ago. Nope. Your goose stepping NAZI left wing side of the aisle adopted the Climate Change lie because the earth didn't warm when Algore said it would and FLORIDA is not under water. You !diots were just looking for another term for global warming. Climate Change seemed to work, since global warming fund raising dried up when the planet didn't warm. It's not going to work much beyond just scaring people who are even dumber and more ignorant than you. (Thank GOD they're all in Blue States.) The people who claim to be the experts in all things related to weather and climate CANNOT predict the weather beyond ten days out. These EINSTEINS are the ones who ordered the barrier islands off St. Petersburg to be evacuated for TWO hurricanes that turned northwest and didn't go anywhere near St. Pete. I wouldn't trust these people with aircraft maintenance, or any other important job. = WORDS MEAN THINGS.

No try again. The thing you said I lied about was that homelessness in the US doubled during his presidency. It's pretty widely understood that homelessness spiked in the mid 1980s, so what makes you think that it didn't?

We each made an assertion. Yours is the one I was asking about. I implied that this specific decision is part of a larger context or pattern of many similar policies that have long served to treat impoverished people as criminal deviants. See, that's a very specific claim. So that means we can easily test it. If it's true then you can name the specific spot you would legally sleep tonight if you were homeless.

Sounds like the RNC is posting observers outised counting centers in key states to prevent late night trucks like this.

Well your friend can pay for my therapy to get that image out of my mind now I'm not actually fighting I just reply to his weird little cries for help.

Looks like he's got most of the swing states too athough some might be close. And he hasn't even been campaigning. He's learned the value of not interrupting his opponent when they're screwing up, something he didn't get with hillary. So when the new cycle starts to slow down on biden being incompetent he can jump back in and pick up momentum and scoop some indy voters. I have said in the past that contrary to some people's opinion trump has never been a very good campaigner. But he has really improved this time out and while I wouldn't call his campaign brilliant, it's a lot more solid than it has been in the past. If he keeps up like this he will definitely be president again. Biden is going to continue to be the center of negative attention and then suddenly trump will be put front and center in the media at the convention and announce his running mate and be all the media talks about in a more positive light for a week That means Biden is going to start this race off with negative momentum and that's always really hard to recover from

🤣 Tell us how you really feel lol.

Way to avoid the question. I asked: "OMG. Lets hear this brilliant distinction explained. What makes someone an "African-American" vs "Black" and how does "Black" History month mainly refer to "African-Americans?" Let me spell it out for you: Yet again you assert something incredibly dumb, and now you run away instead of owning up to it.

CdnFox / ExFlyer . . . any chance you two can 'kiss and make up/out? Asking for a friend . . .

It's not one time. It's many times, in many places and contexts in reference to many types of service personnel. Bullshit. He didn't attack John McCain, who just happens to be a POW. He attacked him on the basis of being a POW. (Not a hero for being captured, Trump likes people who weren't captured.) His derision applies to every POW. There are lots of reasons people IN the administration don't speak out. People are freer to talk after they leave. You claim not to be a Trump sycophant, but you're twisting yourself into pretzels to weave an alternate reality and dismiss and diminish criticism that is broad and sourced almost exclusively from people who worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Trump. When someone shows you who they are, believe them. When their closest confidants and collaborators confirm it, believe them. Again, you're welcome to say that his disdain for service, service members (especially the disables, POW and KIA) is A-okay in your book. You're welcome to say that you'll give power to an awful human being in the hope that he delivers policy that you think it good. But don't bullshit us by pretending reality isn't reality. Just own it and move on.

That is a LIE. And you are a LIAR.

No one says this. I didn't say it did, dummy. No the post is saying, quite clearly, that Blacks today are better off here because their ancestors were enslaved than they would have been if they stayed in Africa. In other words "slavery is a net good for black people."

False equivalence. What Carroll claimed was EXACTLY what Trump BRAGGED ABOUT DOING on the Access Hollywood TAPE. Duh It doesn't matter what I thought, the JURY CONVICTED Trump.

You literally just excused them. If palestine wanted peace, they would have their own country by now and good relations with israel and be self sufficient. They do not want peace. That's why there's an "occupation", which really isn't an occupation at all. They have a huge amount of freedom to manage their affairs within gaza and what did they do with it? Turned it into a manufacturing plant for missiles that they shoot at israel. Spent their money building hundreds of miles of terrorist tunnels. organized the brutal slaughter rape and mutilation of thousands of innocent israelis without warning or delcaration of war. Their "Cause" cannot be 'Understood". Other than it's the desire for genocide. They could have peace tomorrow if they wanted it, they don't. They are an evil and morally corrupt 'nation', and everything negative about their situation is their own doing. I don't particularly think putin is much better but standing up for the terrorists is utter nonsense. These people are horrible, there is NO validity to their actions, their situation is a direct result of their own choices and they have NO one to blame but themselves.

So let's just go with your idea, and have Ukraine surrender. Since surely the Russians won't commit a slew of war crimes, up to, and including genocide against Ukrainian civilians in the aftermath. *facepalm*

After 60+ court cases and numerous recounts and audits, 3.5 years later THIS random, unverified Internet post will unravel the most scrutinized election in US history. Promise, you guys won't end up looking like gullible fools again.

He is heard a lot more than your 1-2 line gotchas with your naked links.

Political correctness is a disease.

Gee, they don't check up when you apply? Like your status card along with your Driver;'s License? That's how those Grade 9 coders got the ArriveCan contract!

You are not even a citizen but a Subject Of His Majesty as such in the civilized world you are unemployable. 😀

This isn't any proof whatsoever, it's a conspiracy theory. You've been conned by a conman.

OMG. Lets hear this brilliant distinction explained. What makes someone an "African-American" vs "Black" and how does "Black" History month mainly refer to "African-Americans?" You can't make this garbage up it is so dumb.

never mind that Africans were enslaved by Africans then sold to the Portuguese with Protestant Abolitionist Britons first, then the Americans after, as the only people to ever go war against that

Only two sentences and he still couldn't say anything that made any sense. Honestly, a monkey pounding on a keyboard would produce better content than you do

All I see are excuses. You still believe the people that lie to you and berate the people that believe what they want to believe. My point wasnt that Trump is truthful. I didn't even bring him up. My point wasn't that Fox is a paragon of truth. My point was that you are a hypocrite for turning a blind eye to lies. In this case, maybe the biggest lie in the history of our political system. As to why Scarborough hasnt been sued, who would do that? Who has the standing to say they have been harmed by his lie?

If he can't even admit it doesn't stop anyone from getting or giving others covid.... 🤷‍♂️ At least he's stopped claiming it wasn't giving anyone myocarditis. And he's stopped claiming no one in Canada has been injured or died form them. Slow progress, I guess. Lie to me once, shame on you. Lie to me twice, shame on me. Lie to me 3,423 times, my name is eyeball.

FFS doogie...stay in our century at least . And, stay on topic. 🤦🤦🤦

what @eyeball doesn't understand is that while conservatives are proud of their beliefs, they don't define themselves by their political party or affiliation. We are who we are, and therefore we tend to be conservative in our views. We're proud of who we are more than our political leanings. Who we are defines our politics, our politics don't define who we are. Eyeball and those on the left however have a bad habit of letting their ideology define them. " I am on the left there fore i believe xxxx and i behave xxxx". So they're not proud of themselves as individuals as much as they're proud of the ideology or political view's they've committed to. That's why they tend to hate others who disagree with their beliefs. It muss seem very odd to them that conservatives don't think like that.

You are absolutely right. As far as we know, Semites are of Arab origin or Palestinians, while over 90% of today's Jews are not Semites but (Khazars or Turkish origin). They are actually misrepresenting themselves as Semites and this can be proven very easily with a DNA test. Being Jewish is a religious, not a racial, category. Those who condone killing of 40,000 Semitic children and women in Gaza are actually anti-Semites and not those who criticizes non Semites. Secondly, Christians do not serve Mammon (the Golden Calf) but God. If some want to serve Zionist Mammon, that's their choice. "If God is dead, anything is permitted" F.M. Dostoyevsky http://www.ozpolitic.com/album/forum-attachments/Dead_Gaza_children_002.jpg

Why's it our problem?

but your civil society is under siege by Communists from the far left and Islamists from the far right so what is your leadership model under such wartime conditions, with enemies at the gates ?