I live in Australia where everyone has lots of freedoms that are prohibited to the people who live in what USED TO BE the “Land of the Free”.
Abortion is available and has a proven link to reducing crime.
I WAS a rifle owner (I am too blind to shoot safely so gave my license away but would have lost it at next renewal anyway).
Australia has negligible deaths from guns because the laws prevent the irresponsible and mentally deficient from owning a gun.
Not one state in Australia has gun deaths in the top 100 causes of death let alone in the top 10 causes of children’s deaths like multiple US states have.
Is Aus perfect? Of course not. But it is FAR FAR FAR better than the USA which is why so many Americans are moving here (and Europe which has similar freedoms and gun laws).
Trump has publicly said on multiple occasions that Putin can do what he wants to Ukraine. He has never once said that Putin is wrong on anything.
Go and check out the percentage of GDP each country is paying to support their own military plus Ukraine and you will find that the USA is a long way behind nearly all the countries that Trump says are not pulling their weight.
Check out what percentage of jobs in the US are directly or indirectly created by the production of weapons that go to Ukraine.
Those are the jobs that Trump wants to kill so that he can have a Trump Hotel in Moscow and get millions of tax credits when his next company goes bankrupt.
And the money saved by not purchasing goods for the US military will be used, not to provide relief for the millions out of work, but for tax cuts for the top 5%.
I thank God that I am no longer a resident of the USA.
Much of the downfall in the US’s international status came from the fact that Trump tore up not only international contracts that his predecessors had committed the US to but even international contracts that he himself had signed. His backstabbing of Americas allies had become well known as is probably best shown by his later abandonment of Kurdish fighters who had been supporting the US in Syria even as Republican, Democrat and international critics said he was sacrificing a US ally and undermining American credibility.
Trump considers those sort of actions as “Making America Great Again”. Internationally this was corrected by many people to he was “Making America Grate”.
For those who are word challenged Grate means “To have an annoying or painful effect” or “To irritate or annoy persistently”.
If re-elected, on day one Trump will keep a promise for the first time and pull the US out of Europe and the Pacific and confirm his public multiple statements to Putin to do what he wants in Europe and Xi to do what he wants with Taiwan and that will be the start of WW3.
That will kill most of the defence industry jobs in the USA because no country, except maybe Russia, will trust that the arms they purchase will ever be allowed to be delivered because Trump has a history of backstabbing the USA’s military allies.
All NATO and other US treaty partners will reject Trumps actions and no longer purchase US military goods.
Also at that point the US president will become just a MINOR bit player that no one takes seriously.
Civilians in many countries will cease to purchase US goods in protest against Trumps actions
That will not affect Trump or his GOP allies as he will still be President and they will still be Senators and Representatives but for the rest of the country the result will be a disaster.
Every INTELLIGENT person knows that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it – usually with worse results.
I left the US in 1972. Before and since I have always considered myself a Republican. I still fully support law and order applying to all, not only against illegal immigrants but also to all the anarchists from January 6. That also means that any politician that breaks the law suffers the consequences of those actions, just like Nixon did and the Declaration of Independence requires.
The current US political climate is so rabid that I fear for my children and grandchildren who still live there.
Both the Democrats and the Republicans forget that from mid WW2 until June 2018 the US President was undisputedly the most powerful man in the world and the US was the one and only true superpower. China and Russia were also rans in the superpower race. Much of the US’s power came from the fact that any international agreement that (contract) one President signed was honored by every following President. Sometimes they renegotiated an agreement but they never shredded it.
Until then, almost without exception in world politics what the US President wanted the US President got. Many of those decisions were narrow victories but they were victories none the less.
In June 2020 Trump demanded the reincorporation of Russia into the G7. The other six G7 members UNANIMOUSLY rejected this proposal. Never before had the US been unanimously rejected in any international political forum. At that point the US moved from being the only true superpower in the world to just another powerful nation and no more powerful than China or Russia on the world stage.
When Trump was outvoted, instead of accepting the result like a man he sat in a chair, crossed his arms and behaved like any spoilt brat two year old who has been refused a candy. That photo says it all.
You left the most important words off the end of your statement. It should read:
“Some people fulfill their responsibilities glad to see the advantages they provide for society and without foisting the costs of those improvements as debt for our children to pay off BECAUSE BIG TAX CUTS FOR BILLIONAIRES IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY SPENDING THAT BENEFITS THE NATION.”
I wonder what the “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun” mob will say about this because the “good guy” did not stop him before it happened.
I wonder what the NRA would have said if the bad guy had been successful.