Here is a thought I thought I would throw on here for discussion.

What about instead of countries people grouped together in regions of the world with the same or similar politics/ideology.

Let's face it people can argue to their hearts content about politics and how things should be but people rarely if ever change their point of view. In theory it means that in many countries are many people living opposed to the politics of that country/government. So in that respect under conditions they would rather not do so.

So what if instead the world was split up by different geo-political regions.

So Feminists would have their own region, Male Chauvinists another region, Racists another region, Multiculturalists another, Capitalists another, Socialists another and so on and so forth.

Then people could go and live in the region that aligned with their politics/ideology etc, so for them live in their paradise without being subjected to the whim of politics/ideology they are opposed to.

. . . I decided that I was not going to send her back, so I drove her to Las Vegas and married her.

A form of 'kid-napping?'

billionaires donate to both sides, it's called hedging

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)

"The 1896 realignment cemented the Republicans as the party of big businesses while president Theodore Roosevelt added more small business support by his embrace of trust busting."

Today 'ole Teddy would be a democrat, why?
because he was in favor of a progressive income tax on the rich and powerful
indexed for inflation, 'ole Teddy didn't want to start taxin folks until only after about 60k of income...
he didn't wanna tax the labor of the 'workin man', only the plutocracy

his speech here
http://ips-dc.org/a_century_later_teddy_roosevelts_speech_on_corporate_power/

now republicans have flipped everything
1. tax the working man more than the 1%
2. support Russia, instead of opposing it

what happened to the republican party?
they fell victim to the "Iron Law of Oligarchy"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

now Republican apologists like Anne Coulter will assert that today's Republican Party is the same 'Party of Lincoln" from 1860
but it's NOT, they're connin you

Today the Republican party is more or less MAGA with 'alternative facts" that are distributed through their media outlets owned by people like Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk and a galaxy of other disinformation sites
Remember 'Pravda'? now we have "Truth Social"
same deal...

a simple comparison of the two
Democrats
  New Deal/social security, etc
  '64 Civil Rights Act
  Affordable Care Act
  student loan forgiveness

Republicans
  Tax cuts for corporations and bilionaires

TODAY, you yourself  Beel, have medical insurance, NOT because of Republicans (not a single Republican voted for the ACA, aka "Obamacare")
you have it in spite of Republicans, cuz they were willin to let ya die without it, so that their patrons could keep more money for themselves

I'm not sure why you wanna lend political support to the party that's SO indifferent to you, that they don't care if you live or die

why is it you vote against your own interests, to maintain the staus quo of the billionaires?
are you a closet billionaire Beel?


btw, I was a republican up to Ronald Reagan...
as the cliche goes
I didn't leave the party, the party left me
I even campaigned for a Republican Senator in my youth

"Upside down"
a great music video filmed in the FSU

I'm sorry, but today's Republican Party is NOT The Party of Lincoln, instead it became the party of "big business" at the end of 19th century

Upside down and backwards
Meanwhile back in the 21st century can you name a single non-oil sector in the S&P 500
that doesn't donate to the DNC or leftist causes. The Dems are in bed with big corporations
at the expense of small businesses. The left will drive them out of business if they don't.

How about a single company in the S&P 500?

Peace

Beel

I kind of expected something a bit more full on for Israel's counter attack on Iran.

Looks like it might all just be a set up to get the Israel & Iran thing de-escalated without either side losing face.