they’re literally a poverty cult based on empirically proven wrong axioms

Here’s where the fun begins because the highlighted portion above makes it clear you have never at any point taken a course in economics.

“printing money creates inflation”,

It does which is why monetary policy is important to focus on.

“rising the minimum wage creates unemployment”

This isn’t that common as most of the studies done recently suggests this is not the case. There are some who still maintain that in specific situations this can occur but it isn’t as common as you state.

“public expenditure in healthcare, pensions and education is bad for the economy”.

Please provide either a valid academic source for this or an opinion piece printed in a credible newspaper from an actual economist (eg Robert Reich is not an economist while Krugman and Mankiew are)

You should do the opposite of what most economists preach.

This is the clearest sign you have no education in the field. I have a buddy who focuses on healthcare economics why would you ask him about trade policy? That’s like asking your dentist if you beed elbow surgery.

Sounds like the solution is socialized medicine

If this is about American businesses, perhaps we could try a health care system that does not require the employer to cover medical costs but instead try a collective national solution.

No, Im saying sweeping economic changes come with unforeseen consequences which is why many/most economists dont push for massive sweeping change.

This isn’t “bullshit excuses” as you are focusing on the potential political gains and I am talking about the economic problems that could come about from sweeping economic changes.

When the New Deal passed the USA was a larger portion of the world economy and it was growing.

Really large sweeping economic changes tends to have significant unexpected problems created from them. It would be bad if we lifted everyone up and then destroyed our ability to maintain that new status in the process.

Voters want conviction. Republicans have it, and Democrats don’t.

Agreed

No I im in a place where it is legal. I paid $45-60 for high grade in the 1990s in NJ and that’s the same price it is now. The higher grade stuff just got consistently better.

RDR2 is so great the NYT film reviewer mentioned as one of the best stories that year.

I have paid roughly the same price for 3.5grams of cannabis since 1992. The quality has vastly improved but the price remains the same. That does not suggest that inflation is bullshit.

If you want to learn micro or need a refresher here’s a link to MIT’s intro micro which is excellent:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-01sc-principles-of-microeconomics-fall-2011/

Would you support forcing Musk out of his roles in these companies due to his drug useage?

If not Musk should be forced from his roles in these companies. You cannot be a defense contractor and do ketamine.

Thelema was also intentionally created though they are unrelated as far as I am aware.

Wiccans are not a monolith. Some have claimed to be an ancient faith reborn while others are aware of the hodgepodge nature.

Reread Trump did in fact get quite a lot of votes. It is almost as if people are individuals or something.

Which exit poll are you using? There were conflicting ones at the time. Overall the numbers aren’t large enough to make a difference but Im just curious which one you used.

Wealthy people too

Can you really generalize an entire population with a broad stroke?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/13/michigan-dearborn-trump-harris-arab-gaza-israel-vote/

https://www.voanews.com/a/in-historic-shift-american-muslim-and-arab-voters-desert-democrats/7854995.html

Top link is paywalled FYI

It seems like Muslims in the USA did though I cannot find anything that differentiates immigrants vs non-immigrants. They seemed to have voted against Harris for the most part because of her support of attacks on Gaza. This makes perfect sense if you recall the same community complained about Biden’s support of the war on Gaza in the primary.

Sure, but that could be said about any belief system depending on when you start the clock.

Not really? We don’t have distinct points of creation for many faiths. With Wicca it can be set in a specific time and place. You aren’t going to find Wiccans from 100 years ago.

Wicca is a blend of multiple different religious ideologies that existed in Europe at some point in the past. If you took someone from modern day Colchester in 200ce they might recognize parts of their ancestral faiths but parts will be from other tribes and peoples. Hence Wicca doesn’t have an “authentic” set of beliefs as much as an intentionally created one. That’s different from something like Judaism or Christianity whose views weren’t created by people with the intent of creating a fait h.

As a kid I asked a friend’s dad who was a chemist if magic was real and he replied “Do you think anyone would go into years of schooling for engineering if a shortcut existed?”