The country isn’t sliding into dictatorship at all. Franklin Delanor Roosevelt was far worse. It is just Democrat propaganda because they are completely corrupt morally.
What happens is the party leadership is just lawyers, and this country has an adversarial legal system rather than a magisterial like the UK, so all the lawyers do in Congress is act like hostile combatants- except there isn’t an impartial judge. A few lawyers are useful in government yet real people with good ideas- not just litigants that sue people, is what is needed.
Many ordinary people don’t seem to have a good sense of history. They don’t even know U.S. history very well and it makes them quite malleable to political manipulation. That being said it is not alright for the left to terrorize federal office buildings as they do in Portland. Remember this is an era following Timothy McVeigh and the Murer Federal Building destruction in Oklahoma City and the 9-11 attacks. The very, very loose and somewhat predatory sieges of federal buildings provides hate and potential opportunities for threat vectors to attack and perhaps destroy federal buildings and personnel.
Many Americans really don’t like illegal aliens taking jobs in the U.S.A. and would like them deported. Remember that most of my life was in the affirmative action era and I was not the newly favored class. Anti-white males discrimination became commonplace, and it did not help blacks nearly as much as it might have if every other race and gender did not pile in to that open door.
The U.S. Supreme Court eventually decided that race based employment favoritism is wrong. Certainly the Democrat Party of the ante-bellum south used it routinely, and in the segregation era race based favoritism applied even to water fountains in many areas of the country, though I never saw anything like that in the state of Washington growing up. I remember traveling through Portland on weekends even before the dams on the Columbia River were completed. It used to be more of an industrial town.
I understand the homeless problem very well because I have lived that way myself. I slept on the street for a while in order to finish a computer programming and systems analysis class at Western Business College on SW 6th in Portland. If one is homeless the first thing necessary is to never use drugs, alcohol or tobacco and of course those are heavily used vices in Portland’s homeless community. Portland has had leftist ‘leadership’ for quite some time. The last Republican governor of Oregon was Vic Atiyeh when I lived there. Politicians of both parties aren’t fixing the homeless problem and they could definitely reduce it with several practical measures they won’t try even when given the information to do so- I have tried that myself several times in writing.
I could say that giving transit passes to certified homeless so they could decentralize might help, or that providing tax breaks for hiring those out of work the longest proportionately could help the homeless find work. Even Oregon’s requirement that renters pay two month’s rent plus a deposit makes it tough for the broke to afford an apartment. It is useful to the left to have people on the street so they can try to accomplish their agenda by getting sympathy votes from the naive.
About 23 and me; I don’t want to give my genetic code to the corporate world. Genetic programming is very advanced and with Artificial General Intelligence around the corner it is only going to be more so. I don’t really want corporate to have my genetic code. Not only can gene specific bioweapons be designed that can target individuals but any competent agency with the genetic data, a plethora of genetic manipulations may be made to affect the individual target vector’s genetic ensemble. In a real way a human being’s body is like a mobile, ossified live book of information. Very soon it will be possible for others to reprogram or alter the letters or content making up the information that is the individual. I like to write science fiction, yet the present facts clearly support a continuing advance in the ability of corporate science or anyone else having genetic codes of people with technology and wealth to seriously interfere with people. Further, it is well known that internet security is terrible even for very secure organizations. Eventually all of the information is found by hackers and sold on the dark web.
I am not certain yet I seem to recall that the Army’s blood draw records for personnel including veterans was partially sold to science corporations for research- hopefully it was anonymous. I am sure if it did the data will make its way to foreign enemies.
Returning to the topic of illegal aliens. The confederacy was made of Democrats that liked cheap or free labor. They like illegal aliens today because it is cheap labor. Because so many Democrat Party voters don’t do labor themselves they don’t care if the illegal workers take American jobs or displace American workers while gutting wage increases for U.S. labor. They did that to my prospects all of my days. It was very hard to find temporary work because the Mexicans took the jobs for a fraction of what legal workers would get. They are also sometime very arrogant and rude. I support 100% legal workers without a hidden underclass. Yet the rich too tend to like to keep wages down with a wage segregated illegal underclass. In my entire life the Democrats have always made the problem worse, and they undermine democracy by supporting open borders. With open borders it doesn’t matter how people vote in Congress for immigration levels- illegals decide themselves what those levels and numbers will be.
With so many Mexicans working in America Mexico itself underdevelops and that favors the drug society of gangs; narco-traffickers who use the open border and retard Mexican development. The U.S. left want to say it is racist to close the border to all except legal entrants and of course it isn’t. Mexico will continue to be corrupted by the fact that wages are better in the U.S. for illegal migrants here. NAFTA could only have worked if all of the workers on both sides of the border were legal. Supply and demand applies to wages as well as product pricing.
I am sure you are tired of this by now. It is about divisive politics that doesn’t result in anything useful for the nation, except for those that are rich. The country really could use a new political party with good ideas- there are challenges ahead yet opportunity exists too. It is kind of exciting that aluminum and sodium EV batteries are going to appear in a year or two. Reportedly they can be recharged in 4 minutes, are good for 500 miles per charge, and weigh 250 pounds less than lithium ion. The Tesla 2 in 2026 may have them (or not), and may sell for $15,000. The batteries are said to last for 500,000 miles. Solar panels are also cheap now. I bought a 300 watt panel recently for 120 dollars.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251016223116.htm
