[breadwinner]

The current democratic leadership is dumb, in my opinion, because they allow attention to be diverted. They should shift towards the center on the "values and cultural issues" in order to neutralize the conservative advantage, then they will be able to do things that the middleclass (and lower) cares about, such as healthcare and health research, education, consumer protections and so on, and make the Billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.

[TsiCClawOfLight]

I am afraid that is not what they learned :/ from what I can tell, they think Kamala ran too far to the right (whatever that means) and lost her base. It seems to me that these values are more important to them than we would rationally think possible.

To come back to the previous topic: n=1, but I moved out of a city to escape the bullshit and find some common-sense. I have a master's degree and my wife is an MD. We are not the only ones in our circle that deliberatly moved into a rural area :)

[breadwinner]

How happy are you with the NIH cuts, US withdrawal from Climate Agreement, vaccine sceptic being made secretary of health, US alienating Europe, proposed ethnic cleansing of Gaza, etc.? Maybe you have to deal with fewer trans kids, DEI and other such bullshit, but when you look at the big picture was it worth the trade off?

[TsiCClawOfLight]

I believe in subsidiarity. If we cannot maintain strong families and raise children well, larger issues will become unsolvable in the future. Focusing on larger-scale issues at the expense of the most basic health of society is a recipe for long-term disaster.

Which means are justified to solve climate change and achieve world peace? And if we sacrifice everything our society is built on to reach those ends, where does that leave us?