I hear (and have heard) your argument about having empathy for right and trying to bring them in fold.

Empathy helps when there is a misunderstanding about a shared reality, but that is NOT the case here. What we have now is equivalent of Titanic heading straight towards iceberg and half the passengers denying that there is…

I remember seeing this Cartoon describing hard hitting reality in US of A

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Person 1: "Scientist at xyz university have identified a gene that can predict a newborn's personal, educational and social success in America"

Thanks for sharing details about 'Corporate democracy' in Norway. With this much representation in management of a company, no wonder Norwegians have far higher job satisfaction than Americans!

Unfortunately such concepts, even in highly diluted form, will be strongly opposed by members of the Republicans. To quote George…

Good point; but there is also this thing called constitution (4th amendment relevant here) - which, many proclaim is a god given sign that our country is exceptional. We also frequently cite it to taunt our allies and enemies in the world about how amazingly governed our democracy is.