Same here. We gotta aim for the younger generations.

I don’t think you need to be patriotic to want to defend your country from fascist invaders. That’s a purely practical consideration if nothing else.

That depends what you think the greatest threats to quality of life for the average in American are. I believe the greatest threat is the corrupt system, which gives more power and money to the rich and screws over almost everyone else, and both of those candidates are firmly entrenched in it.

They both know and embrace their role in that system, although they would phrase it in different terms.

Finally, you asked about objective terribleness. But there is no such thing. This is all subjective, because of course it is, the country has hundreds of millions of residents who all have different priorities.

Patriotism is such a terrible thing in general.

Not through the courts, unless something totally unexpected happens. But he can do other shady things to raise money.

If the properties are seized, they’ll be sold, not mortgaged, and that amount of money will be applied to what is owed, I believe.

It’s often better for people to sell the property themselves first, because a court officer overseeing the sale doesn’t care as much about getting the highest possible sale price.

I hear you. At the same time, minimum wage also ties into laws against wage theft. So maybe we shouldn’t take it off the shelf for a good long while, at least until wage theft can be cut to reasonably low levels. Good luck to us on that front, though.

I don’t see any need to abolish minimum wage. The pressures that you’re talking about would allow people to quit those horrible minimum wage jobs, but there’s no strong argument for saying that the minimum wage itself should go away.

If UBI is pegged to inflation, what you wrote cannot happen. And it ignores the other economic pressure: if people have UBI, they won’t waste their lives on horrible minimum wage jobs, which will lead to exciting goodness for millions.

One life is that much, though.