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Sep 8Liked by Frank DiStefano

Totally agree. Both parties have gone insane, just on different issues.

Democrats believe in open borders that destroy working class wages, and increase housing costs when we can’t house our own citizens.

They believe that people can change their biological sex an impossibility that destroys the rights of women to privacy and safety in their restrooms, locker rooms and prisons . They allow men in women’s sports which eliminates fair competition.

They encourage the mutilation and sterilization of children who would likely grow up to be gay in pursuit of the unattainable and obscenely call it “gender affirming care”.

They encourage homelessness and crime by refusing to say no to destructive behavior of the mentally ill (who deserve custodial care), the drug addicted and, of course, the criminal class.

They discriminate against whites, Asians and men in a futile attempt to compensate for past discrimination against others.

They are currently led by a vacuous, word salad spouting, not that smart person.

Republicans deny the climate change that threatens humanity.

They denounce the vaccines that reduce deaths from disease.

They believe that a single cell ( . ) is a 👶 which can destroy a woman's future.

They support an ignorant, bullying sociopath who is increasingly showing signs of dementia for president.

A pox on both their houses. We definitely need something new.

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Sep 8Liked by Frank DiStefano

As far as new ideas - we already have what will work, when it is consistently implemented.

https://thenayborhood.substack.com/p/cutting-to-the-chase

Start here, for it is the only sustainable way to achieve the stability you advocate. Simply changing the composition of the two parties will not resolve the "problem behind the problems" that drives both party politics and the dysfunctions of our government.

The reason it has not been adopted, is that it is perceived to require more effort and/or risk on the part of the individual to implement it. But that beats the current paradigm of empowering an elite few to make all the decisions, even in areas where they CAN'T reliably discern what helps - or harms - a particular individual.

And no, this is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps paradigm. We still have to pursue ways to help others and expand the "common good" - but by persuasion, not through the coercion which gets us stuck on stupid.

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Certainly both parties are morally empty. And their guiding principles are 100% based on their financial and power ambitions. For both parties. They prefer to not solve problems and spend years fundraising while all the time saying they want to solve those very same problems that go unsolved (think debt and overspending).

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This is related to the most recent article: most of our elected leaders are fundamentally salespeople instead of innovators.

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