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Good for you!

Unions have their place…but they are not for everyone.

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I was told to never drive my wife’s Honda, that is absolutely ridiculous. Especially when it was built right here in Ohio.

UAW is just pissed because Honda associates don’t want the union there.

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Why is it “necessary”?

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Anarchy is over rated.

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Totalitarianism far more so.

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I am not for that either.
Glad we can agree.

a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

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Of course you are.

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No…I am not.

Why do you keep attributing positions on people, that are not accurate?

Do you really think you know me, better then me?

Oh wait…you probably think you do. That is common among hyper rugged individualists.

A bit more on that subject…

Liberal individualism, as an epistemology and way of being, sees the primary social actor as an individual who is capable of transcending any and all social categories that that person might be a part of. While there are group level phenomena in this worldview, those groups can best be understood as collectives of individuals. This means that our analysis must center and focus on individuals capable of making and defining their own realities and subjectivities.

Hyperindividualism can thus be understood as what happens when liberal individualists are reinforced in their individuality to the extent that social categories lose any and all meanings. Everyone is an independent social agent, and so everyone is thus independently responsible for their social location and social realities.

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When did you write that?

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:rofl:

Encyclopedia of Critical Whiteness Studies in Education

Just come out and identify man!

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I’m not sure if this position is liberal, but I think it may be.

I support a sort of Cadillac health plan which would offer at least some coverage for so called alternative medicine—and some that is classified alternative has been practiced for thousands of years in places like China and India.

As someone whose both a patient and has experience in the medical field, I’ve come to distrust western medicine and many of its practitioners. It doesn’t treat the whole person, but rather various parts of the body as separate entities.

As someone whose gotten more pain relief from Qigong meditation than everything from Primary Care to E R and neurology, why shouldn’t a patient be able to choose professionals from such fields as osteopathic, traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine if that’s who they want for a Primary physician? Those systems look more at the whole person & try to identify causes of problems rather than just treating symptoms & writing prescriptions to be filled at a pharmacy.

Why should they be forced to pay both for insurance & non covered services? I support some level of coverage for nonwestern medical practitioners.

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I wanted to get back to this. I don’t love centgov. In fact, I think it is a behemoth full of wasteful spending and missed opportunities. I hate today’s political climate where we are so divided nothing gets done.

I think where we differ is you see it as irreparably broken and I think it could still be fixed. In this very thread, we have people from both sides if the aisle finding issues and causes we find worthwhile. I think there is far more that unites us rather than divides. The question is how do we harness that spirit and force government to follow suit?

We have to get back to a time when both parties could work together on common goals for the betterment of the country. This divide where the minority party refuses to give the majority party a win under any circumstances isn’t sustainable and it’s hurting the country.

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Balderdash. You never saw a problem where centgov wasn’t the answer.

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Not true. The keeping up with the Jones’ nonsense. My grandparents raised 6 kids in a house 1/3 of the size of my home that I raised 2 boys. I think we have created a lot of our own financial struggles for stuff we don’t need. That is a problem centgov can’t fix.

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Who you you think caused it in a managed economy?

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That was a choice on our part. It started when we doubled the workforce with women. We didn’t have to bite, but our inherit greed got the best of us.

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To the detriment of the nuclear family.

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I didn’t.

Describes you to a T though.

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Reagan, practicing neoliberalism.

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Did we make women want to work outside the home?