"value homogeneity"

America's cultural history valued diversity, until you guys decided it was Woke.

Maybe you never valued diversity. You don't value gays in society, for example. You think gays make society worse.

"reward personal responsibility"

If you are talking about making money, you can make more money in the United States.

"Nordic nations also enforce border controls"

I guess Trump doesn't enforce border controls. Good to know.

"censorship"
Trump speeches scrubbed from WhiteHouse.gov

"centralized control"
Trump Tariffs.

"ideological conformity"
Does the Constitution apply to People or just Citizens?

"That alone doesn't prove everything, but it clearly shows a severe ideological imbalance."

It shows liberals like being in academia more than conservatives do.

Take a survey of oil companies. What does it prove that they are dominated by conservatives? Oil companies are a whole lot richer than Harvard.

"If Harvard truly valued intellectual diversity, those numbers would look very different."

What should they look like, is there any university that passes your purity test?

Why are you in favor of DEI all of a sudden?

Years of pushing ideology over reality, silencing dissent, and mistaking groupthink for truth
#35 | Posted by BillJohnson

Is this "code" for equal rights for trans people, or is there more on your mind than trans people?

The Reality is trans people exist. The Ideology that trans people deserve equal rights is called democracy. These two go hand in glove, not one pushing out the other.

BillJohnson, the diversity is that the United States government also supports endeavors where there is heavy Conservative bias.

Equality is achieved through a diversity of opinions, not making every institution be split down the middle.

There aren't many Liberty Universities, and there aren't many for a reason, but they are out there.

It's not Harvard's fault that the Right Wingers tend to be the Book Burners in society.

It's not Harvard's fault that fact is reflected in who goes into Academia and who doesn't.

Maybe things would look different today if Democrats had offered a serious candidate and a better message that actually reached more Americans.
#46 | Posted by BillJohnson

Why should things look different?
Is something wrong with the way things are going under Trump?

Starting to wonder?

We agree with you. His plan is to burn down the house with us still living inside it.

"Tear down the systems that are a waste."

Cutting Cancer research is an example of Trump burning down he house with us still living inside it.

"He seems to be running organized chaos for America."

Organized chaos isn't a thing.

Hopefully, you're trying to say he's attempting to overwhelm the very government he is cutting, so he can subdue it and make it his own.

BillJohnson,

"Organized chaos" is not a management philosophy.

It's a term that describes how certain situations appear to play out in real life, especially to an outsider.

organized chaos
a situation in which there seems to be a lot of confusion and no organization, which makes you surprised that the results are good:
The restaurant was very busy, and the kitchens were organized chaos.

People who've led under fire, figuratively or literally, don't need to Google it. They've lived it. And if they're good at what they do, it's something they instinctively know.
#59 | Posted by BillJohnson

It's fitting that you believe Trump is a good manager.

"I think just like he declared bankruptcy so many times as a way to start over, I'm starting to wonder if that's his plan for the rest of America.
Burn down the house."

How does this sound like good leadership to anybody?

Explain yourself, BillJohnson.

"People in leadership make hard decisions. They aren't always pretty. What's the alternative? More of the same? The American voters decided what they want."

You're dodging the issue.

You are saying burning down the house is better than more of the same.

You don't really believe that so you're left making excuses for it.

"People in leadership make hard decisions. They aren't always pretty. What's the alternative?"

Not doing tariffs, not doing a trade war, not alienating our allies and trading partners, not using ICE so aggressively we are sending people to camps over paperwork mix-ups.

And you can't condemn any those things.

Trump made significant inroads with latino and black voters in the 2024 election.
He received 46% of the latino vote which was a record for a republican since 1976.
His backing among black voters also rose to 20%, up from 13% in 2020.
#71 | Posted by BillJohnson

Trump's Strong Man Populism and the Poorly Educated are a natural match for each other.

"Let's not pretend this mess started with Trump. The cracks have been forming for years fueled by endless entitlement programs, bloated budgets, pork projects, wasteful spending, and politicians on both sides buying votes with borrowed money."

You just had to work in the "Both Sides."
When it's Republicans and Russians who are filling your feed trough with propaganda.

Name any of these so-called "endless entitlement programs" and "bloated budgets" and tell us how much they cost taxpayers.

Fascism support among black and Latinos is rising.

"You're implying"

Allow me to outright state it, then.

Poorly educated people are usually not very good at thinking.

And that's the same reason so many whites support him!

You aren't exactly an intellectual powerhouse over there. You're a mess; an openly gay man who has a wife instead of a husband to love. Nobody thinks your lid is screwed on properly; not even you since you hate yourself for being gay.

That hatred has come to define who you are.

I'm mocking you for you calling yourself a gay man yet you exclusively have sex with one woman.

What part of that is gay?

It's your intellectual honesty and your understanding of the English language that are on trial here.

If you're gay, but you have sex with only one woman --

How is that really so different from a male in a dress who believes she's a woman?

You believe you're gay.
Is that enough for you to BE gay.
It doesn't matter what you DO.

Okay. So then a male in a dress who believes she's a woman, that person can be a woman to you.

Because of what she believes. It has nothing to do with what she does or whether she can have babies.