American life and values.

[Mycroft]

Falling back on this again are you.

Only if you decide not to read the article.

I take it that is your decision.

So it goes...

 

[Taylor]

Leftists!

 

[code1211]

Which of the above groups of people do YOU find to be the biggest threat to American life and values?

The anti Science crowd seems committed to propagandizing and using shreds and fragments of ideas loosely translated to be parts of science to mislead and deceive the weak minded.

 

[Antiwar]

America has values?

 

[Moderate Right]

Which of the above groups of people do YOU find to be the biggest threat to American life and values?

You're getting a little fairer on these polls BUT the left are going to vote one way, the right are going to vote another way. It all boils down to how many lefties and how many righties vote in the poll.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

The trouble with "specifics" is that anything specific taken alone can be dismissed with spin and nonsense. But when the entire globalist agenda and actions are examined, they are impossible to dismiss or defend and that entire globalist agenda and actions is way too much to describe in a forum post.

The best I can do is present the link to a very extensive article that has supporting links. It's up to you tod take the time and effort to read, understand and realize how the information in the article accurately describes the world regarding the globalists.

If you are willing to spend the time and effort, here is the link: https://theconservativetreehouse.co...tionally-kept-hidden-from-the-american-voter/

If you are unwilling to spend the time and effort, then you are dismissed.

dismissing people again? I am sure people get hurt when you dismiss them.

 

[AGENT J]

losts of things are threats but I gotta go withthreats that could actually register and do at least a little damage. ill fo scale from 1 to 10, 1 being could do some real damage but not enough to upset to actually change us

BLM
These two should never be listed together LOL
BLM = ZERO threat they are a plus!

Antifa
the ones we see on the news are nutters, a little threat but they have no real organization or direction 2

White Supremacists
Of course, they are a threat but again, how large of one really, i would have said a lot less 4 years ago but time proved me wrong. 4

LGBTQ
Zero threat

Leftists
Zero threat

The gun lobby
some are also but no real threat 1

Anti-science crowd
these morons are priceless LOL 5

Illegal immigrants
Zero

Trump supporters
Trump supporters when?
right now still today?
After his 4 years and after 1/6 they are still supporters?
Like would vote for him in 2024? 8

Globalists
0 to 7 simple depends on what type you are talking about. Words are so watered down nowadays they mean almost anything.

Bad policing
3

 

[post]

LOL.
The folks who lost their decent blue collar manufacturing jobs to Mexico(and other developing nations) can take heart in the GDP. Thats the important thing.

"The folks who lost their decent blue collar manufacturing jobs", did not lose them to a foreign country. The American employers decided they could make much greater profit if they conducted their manufacturing operations where the costs of labor and regulatory oversight and enforcement were the least expensive.

Where America's jobs went - The Week - All you need to ...​

https://theweek.com/articles/486362/where-americas-jobs-went
"Ideally," Welch said, "you'd have every plant you own on a barge to move with currencies and changes in the economy." Not only did GE offshore much of its manufacturing, so did its parts...

 

[skeptic llc]

The Trumpers just tried a coup, so this poll was like the gimme on the multiple choice tests.

 

[skeptic llc]

Your standard of living, one of the highest in the world, as well as a very high US GDP exist in a era of unprecedented global trade. There's no way you can say that globalization is bad for ya.

Respectfully disagree. Your claim is very strong ("There's no way you can say ...") so it's not like a level playing field. There are lots of ways one could say exactly that without being irrational. One is that, pre-globalization, Americans dominated the world economy in a way we no longer do or can. Another is that, pre-globalization, we were not competing for jobs against every impoverished human on the planet, so we could do things like have stable lifelong jobs and take weekends off. I'm not saying these are the winning positions, just that your statement is a bit too bold to be true IMO.

 

[Geoist]

Which of the above groups of people do YOU find to be the biggest threat to American life and values?

Anti-science crowd easy.

 

[skeptic llc]

Anti-science crowd easy.

How come? Would love to hear the reasoning.

 

[Geoist]

How come? Would love to hear the reasoning.

Think about the things the anti-science crowd opposes. They think climate change is fake and that the government should not only stop transitioning to cleaner energy sources but ramp up the production and consumption of the sources that perpetuate the problem. The anti-vaxx crowd could potentially be responsible for millions of deaths if they got any real power in this country.

 

[skeptic llc]

Think about the things the anti-science crowd opposes. They think climate change is fake and that the government should not only stop transitioning to cleaner energy sources but ramp up the production and consumption of the sources that perpetuate the problem. The anti-vaxx crowd could potentially be responsible for millions of deaths if they got any real power in this country.

Thanks, all fair. It's really weird when a large segment of society just ... rejects knowledge.

 

[Geoist]

Thanks, all fair. It's really weird when a large segment of society just ... rejects knowledge.

You'd think with the internet we wouldn't have to deal with so much ignorance anymore. Instead the morons just find other morons on forums and they reinforce each other's stupidity.

 

[skeptic llc]

You'd think with the internet we wouldn't have to deal with so much ignorance anymore. Instead the morons just find other morons on forums and they reinforce each other's stupidity.

Holy hell, that's so painfully true. All the stupids pool with others who are stupid in the same ways, and a tsunami of stupid drowns us all.

 

[Geoist]

Holy hell, that's so painfully true. All the stupids pool with others who are stupid in the same ways, and a tsunami of stupid drowns us all.

 

[Felis Leo]

You'd think with the internet we wouldn't have to deal with so much ignorance anymore. Instead the morons just find other morons on forums and they reinforce each other's stupidity.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant...but then comes red tide.

 

[Allan]

Respectfully disagree. Your claim is very strong ("There's no way you can say ...") so it's not like a level playing field. There are lots of ways one could say exactly that without being irrational. One is that, pre-globalization, Americans dominated the world economy in a way we no longer do or can.

It was inevitable that other countries would develop and take market share. And what elements of globalization would you say have hobbled the US?

 

[rickc]

Well when you pick trump supporters you get the white supremacist and the anti-science crowd included

None of the others are any real threat.

No doubt that massive number of white working class trumpers has control of the Republican party. The GOP pandering to that base is doing real damage to this great country.

There is a civil war ongoing between this group attempting to maintain white control over our country and mainstream America attempting to move on.

The wealthy elite are using those white working class voters to maintain all the tax favoritism that has made them wealthy without measure. Right wing propaganda is very effective on this group of voters.

 

[skeptic llc]

It was inevitable that other countries would develop and take market share. And what elements of globalization would you say have hobbled the US?

The pace at which it occurred was not inevitable. I suspect we knowingly accelerated the economic growth of even awful nations (think China) under the theory that doing so would make them more politically open at the same time additional trade opportunities enriched us. But I digress.

Much of the problem (for the US) with accelerating the transformation to compete against labor (and low taxes and non-regulation) globally is that humans and our societies aren't all that good at adapting to such extreme changes. Hence the hollowed out US economy, and tens of millions of enraged Americans who don't really serve a useful function in the post-transformation economy. Now everyone can buy consumer goods they don't need for less, and in exchange much of our society has given up more fundamentally important things, like job security.

Probably inevitable, and many trends are largely attributable to automation anyway, but if one is strictly concerned about Americans (as opposed to the billions of impoverished people overseas who are much better off because of it), I think there's a good argument to be made that the last thing we needed to do was speed up these changes via promoting globalization.

 

[The Mark]

Which of the above groups of people do YOU find to be the biggest threat to American life and values?

Anti-science, even though that's likely a big generalization of probably dozens or hundreds of groups.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Anti-science, even though that's likely a big generalization of probably dozens or hundreds of groups.

well, I suppose anti-science encompasses anti-vaxxers, anti-masker, climate deniers, etc etc.

 

[The Mark]

well, I suppose anti-science encompasses anti-vaxxers, anti-masker, climate deniers, etc etc.

I was mentally including those who deny reality in favor of what they want to be true, so it could technically be every single human, since I think we all do that at least some of the time.

To put it another way, the top threat to anything right and good is humans, as it has always been.
But the definition of that can't exist without humans.

 

[swing_voter]

If I was a citizen of the USA I would be most worried by the catastrophic decline of almost all of the media. Always a bit biased, now blatant purveyors of lies and propaganda. If this continues, as I fear it will, a effective one party state may be unavoidable.

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