The Way Ahead

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    The fundamental choice people have in personal relationships and
    between countries is whether to cooperate or to engage in some form
    of detrimental competition or combat.

    At present the US is mostly oriented to combat, and has selected
    Russia, Iran, and China as enemies.

    In November there will be a limited ability to change that, though most
    of the US public has been revved up already to fight the countries
    mentioned above, and Joe Biden and Janet Yellen has said we can
    fight more than one country at a time, history indicates that is not
    a very good option.

    I think Neoconservatism has proven to be a disaster and as we abandon
    it our relationships with the other countries of the world will gradually improve.
     
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    yangforward Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I am hoping the new members of the Trump team will play bigger
    roles in the future, both RFK jr. and Nicole Shanahan have a lot
    to offer, and so have members of the public as well.

    In a democracy the public gets some involvement in governing
    the country, instead of what goes on in so many countries, including
    this one, where the rich associates of the President, and the
    groups that provide the most funding, make the main choices.

    Although Trump fell behind on starting wars, only getting involved
    in Somalia if I recall, and leaving the conflict in Ukraine to his
    successor to deal with,

    Trump did respond a certain amount to public opinion polls, making
    him more democratic than previous presidents, or so it appeared
    to me, someone must have done research on this, it would be
    interesting to hear opinions on this.
     
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    The way we have been moving is clearly not a way ahead,
    the Biden / neocon policies are to end a war the public is
    aware is going nowhere, start a new war and then grow it
    really big.

    That results in an economy where money is borrowed from
    the future, distributed among the 'defense industries' which
    are big lobbyists and power the main media, and gives the
    population whose financially competitive jobs have been
    moved to other countries and now need something to do.

    Work that could not be moved out of the country, or hasn't
    been, is given to less expensive immigrants, because some
    jobs have to be cost competitive, while the govt funded
    jobs including military related ones, don't.
     

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