Your interpretation is that the voting pattern in 2025 against Republicans in favor of diverse Democrats in various locations is primarily because voters "want the money", and are only tepid on Trump's violations of due process and Constitutional guarantees. Is that your position?
If you are correct, then this nation is in even more trouble than I thought. Affordability is essential to being able to support the lofty ideals of democracy - but the connection you suggest is backwards. We get affordability in a society BECAUSE of our emphasis and respect for individual freedoms - not the other way around.
Free societies are not free because they are wealthy, comfortable, and without challenge. Those attributes of living are a direct result of people paying attention to the details of a just tax system, everyone having equal access to a top-notch education system, and local/state/federal public/private institutions respecting and protecting the fundamental rights of our existing Constitutional protections, along with providing basic living needs, i.e., the affordability to live at least a reasonably decent life, free from physical fear and basic financial insecurities.
What is needed now are legal adjustments to control powerful entities in our societies (whether public OR private) which seek to return human beings to the role of being merely tools for the small but very privileged and wealthy segments of society that have controlled "the people" from the dawn of global civilizations. I am not talking socialism - I am talking common sense protections from capitalism run amok and governmental authority being captured (as it has now) by the unscrupulous and incompetent whose current focus seems to be "I got mine - but you will not get yours because it threatens me"? No need to intellectualize or moralize the voting issue beyond this observation. When you do, it becomes a political football game and the essence of humanity and reasonableness is left only to the owners and the refs, i.e., the very wealthy and those already in charge.
Our Constitution, however, begins with the premise that wealth in America is freedom and opportunity for individual existence, and that we, collectively and individually, control that wealth by making choices at the ballot box. Americans should want equality under the law, financial security, and the right to think and be free. That existence requires consistent, ongoing electoral participation by all citizens. Voting out of a sense of financial desperation of the many or because of human greed by the few is not a good formula for continuation of a democracy on behalf of its citizens. That has been the pattern for too long, and it needs to change - now.
Your interpretation is that the voting pattern in 2025 against Republicans in favor of diverse Democrats in various locations is primarily because voters "want the money", and are only tepid on Trump's violations of due process and Constitutional guarantees. Is that your position?
If you are correct, then this nation is in even more trouble than I thought. Affordability is essential to being able to support the lofty ideals of democracy - but the connection you suggest is backwards. We get affordability in a society BECAUSE of our emphasis and respect for individual freedoms - not the other way around.
Free societies are not free because they are wealthy, comfortable, and without challenge. Those attributes of living are a direct result of people paying attention to the details of a just tax system, everyone having equal access to a top-notch education system, and local/state/federal public/private institutions respecting and protecting the fundamental rights of our existing Constitutional protections, along with providing basic living needs, i.e., the affordability to live at least a reasonably decent life, free from physical fear and basic financial insecurities.
What is needed now are legal adjustments to control powerful entities in our societies (whether public OR private) which seek to return human beings to the role of being merely tools for the small but very privileged and wealthy segments of society that have controlled "the people" from the dawn of global civilizations. I am not talking socialism - I am talking common sense protections from capitalism run amok and governmental authority being captured (as it has now) by the unscrupulous and incompetent whose current focus seems to be "I got mine - but you will not get yours because it threatens me"? No need to intellectualize or moralize the voting issue beyond this observation. When you do, it becomes a political football game and the essence of humanity and reasonableness is left only to the owners and the refs, i.e., the very wealthy and those already in charge.
Our Constitution, however, begins with the premise that wealth in America is freedom and opportunity for individual existence, and that we, collectively and individually, control that wealth by making choices at the ballot box. Americans should want equality under the law, financial security, and the right to think and be free. That existence requires consistent, ongoing electoral participation by all citizens. Voting out of a sense of financial desperation of the many or because of human greed by the few is not a good formula for continuation of a democracy on behalf of its citizens. That has been the pattern for too long, and it needs to change - now.