Thanks for your response Javier. You can certainly find all kinds of information that fawns over Donald Trump and paints him in the best light possible. P{politically aligned media organizations like Newsmax and Fox News and Turning Point and other right wing news sites will talk all day about how great Trump is. If there is a consistent negative picture of Trump being painted by actual journalists and reporters though, it might be worth considering that there is a reason for that. He might actual be a terrible president. This week's fall out from his executive order to freeze federal grants is one such example.

You and I see BLM differently, and I'm not going to change your mind. I know people who have been involved in that movement. I know that it contains a multitude of opinions and ideas, because it contains people. But describing it as fascist and violent is factually incorrect. Of course you may continue to believe it and I'm not going to argue with you. It doesn't really matter what either of us think on this topic.

The pendulum in northern North America has never gone to the far left. Not even close. Not since the 1930s anyway and certainly not since the 1980 US and 1984 Canadian elections. The US and Canada have been run by centre and centre right governments during that time. The only moment when there was a Democratic supermajority in the US was during the first two year of Obama's first term and he used it to try to build bridges across the aisle, not impose radical left wing policies. As you say Obama was no radical leftist. I agree that he shouldn't have won the Peace Prize.

But he was a pivotal Democratic president. He was far to the right of the only actual democratic soloist in Congress, Bernie Sanders. Sanders even ran to succeed him and the party routed him out. So no, the US has never even flirted with moderate doses of socialism let alone radical socialism, except when it comes to funding the private sector of course. Democrats tend to keep capital happy while doing their best to look after the public good. Republicans tend to keep capital happy while outsourcing the public good to the market.

What has changed on the Republican side is the increase in populism that has been founded on a cruel bullying that punches down on people. It has denied women and transgendered people of their right to health care (and your uninformed and ignorant opinions on trans care and dignity are examples of the kinds of nonsense that are fed to people who don;t know any better. Sorry, but I have to call that out.) This kind of cruelty, xenophobia, racism and hatred of the other is what drives right wing populism now in much of the world and it will lead to cruelty and death. It already has. I guarantee you 100% that trans health care doesn't not affect your life in anyway. But the cruel exclusion and acts of violence against trans people affects THEIR lives. Tragically. I can safely tell that you know no child who has ever "cut off their body parts" in the way you describe. You are making things up and using them to try to make a point. So I would say, stop that.

To your other points, scientists have a process for clarifying the scientific consensus. Yes crackpot science exists. In Alberta a panel of unreliable doctors issued a bunch of misinformed recommendations about COVID and vaccines and their peers resoundingly called them out for it. So I trust the scientific process. Which is why "doing my own research" is ridiculous. I have no way to evaluate papers and findings. I have to trust peer reviews. That isn't say that things don't change over time, because science is about learning, not getting stuck on the same piece of knowledge for all time. But still. Bias is pretty clearly weeded out as far as I can tell. But I am no immunologist, so I have to trust someone. I don't just choose to trust people that feed my preconceived ideas.

Finally, on immigration to the US, the story just isn't that simple it? You believe the myth of the Statue of Liberty, that all can come to a country of justice and freedom. But the US is a country founded on slavery, remnants of which still exist embedded in the actual Contistutional amendment that abolished it. It is a country founded on genocide of the Indigenous population and the wholesale theft of land. No wonder their economy grew so quickly eh? Free land and labour for hundreds of years and a government that enabled both. For many immigrants arriving to the US in the 20th century it was not a land of freedom and liberty. It might have been better for a while than the places they left, but for everyone from Jews, Asians, Irish, Italians to modern day Muslims and Latinos, the country is a hard place to settle and make a living becasue it is individualistic, racist and exclusionary unless you come with wealth and power. I worked for an immigrant and refugee organization for a while and many refugees fleeing places like South Sudan and Liberia told me that they missed to community and camaraderie of the refugee camps they lived in in Ghana and Kenya. Some wanted to return becasue th epriozise they had been sold about the USA was a lie.

I understand what people from to come to the US, but now the USA has vilified all of these people and is stopping them from coming. So right now - TODAY - it is a country that has closed it's borders to people fleeing those conditions and the current administration is trying to figure out ways to deport 5% of the country's population.

So I don't know WHAT you are talking about. And on this point, it seems clear that you might not as well.