When it comes to Biden or Trump, it's a lose/lose situation. I hold both parties and their current figureheads in equal contempt, and am surprised that more people don't agree. But so many are still reactionary; liberals i talk to think I'm for Trump if I criticize Biden, and conservatives assume I'm for Biden if I criticize Trump. The narrow partisan horse-race mentality still has too many people in it's grip. It ought to be clear by now these parties have been more of an obstacle than anything else and have utterly sold out to their biggest donors and corporate lobbyists long ago. Everything you accuse Democrat v**ers of doing is true, and Republican v**ers just mirror the same ignorant behavior most of the time.
As far as having a reasonable discussion on how to sustain and strengthen the couple of programs that conservatives, liberals, righties, and lefties alike can agree are worth keeping, they have failed at that too. What is it keeping them from working together in an honorable way on this, or anything, for that matter? Except when it comes to feeding the war machine, of course. They're pretty much in lock-step when it comes to that. I don't know, but pointing fingers and tit-for-tat is hypocritical at best. They have become flip-sides of the same coin, projecting onto eachother the same crap they both do. It's a theater of the absurd.

No man. A******n is an ugly thing, but it isn't the government's place to impose that decision on anyone.
Just because the majority of religious people in the US are some denomination of Christian, doesn't make the country a "Christian-based country." Many of the venerated founding fathers knew better and conceived of a secular country and made that pretty clear in the first amendment. So you'll have to explain what you mean by "Christian-based", because I'm not sure where you're getting that from.
And if you're asking me am I for murder, stealing, drug abuse etc,. why would I be "for" any of that? Most people are not, I think, as you said, regardless of whether they're theist or atheist. If that's not what you were asking me, then it's moot.
Maybe no one is literally forcing any of their beliefs on anyone, but certain politicians are being more subtle about it, such as new Speaker Mike Johnson, another in a long line of Republicans who insist the first amendment doesn't mean what it actually says. I bring him up because as Speaker he's two positions away from POTUS. Yes, it ought to be a concern, as it's bad enough having religious zealots of any kind in government, where their decisions are informed by their religion And there have been conservatives all over the place still trying to get prayer back in public schools, which is and always has been unconstitutional. Creationism is a religious theory, and not a particularly substantial one, so how you think it deserves to be taught as a scientific theory is beyond me, as there is nothing scientific about it.This is not a theocracy, thank goodness, no matter how much some people would like it to be. There are plenty of other places people can learn about the creationist theory if they want to. So why the burning desire to get it into the public schools?

That's fine. Privatization is not the answer. Should either party offer a viable solution that does not involve cutting peoples' benefits, I'm all ears. So far I haven't seen or heard anything viable from either side. As far as it just being Democrats who play games just to retain power, get real. Both parties have their pet-issues that make them seem like the "good guys" to their v**ers, and the other party the "bad guys".It's a false-dichotomy that I find it difficult to believe anyone falls for anymore.Neither can be trusted. But ok, you say Republicans want to improve these programs, I'm looking forward to hearing about their ideas.

How does the average working-class family "win" under either a 2nd Biden or Trump administration. Short answer: they don't. Time for something else. I don't know what, I don't have all the answers, but it isn't via business-as-usual , that's for sure.

It must be nice living in selective ignorance like that. No religion isn't being literally forced on anyone. But let's not pretend that a certain faction of Republican legislators aren't always whining that this is a Christian nation and that there is no separation of church-and-state, even though the 1st Amendment makes it pretty clear. Let's ignore that certain legislators in "red states" want to teach "creationism" in public schools as if it's a bona fide science. Or that all the anti-a******n legislation is not rooted in these religious beliefs. I guess this is all not happening, right

Except it is. Look at your boy Mike Johnson, the new Speaker. Wants to set up a special "fiscal commission" to discuss how to go about keeping SS and Medicare solvent past 2032. Look at the history of Republicans talking about these programs as "entitlements" that need curtailing. They've been wanting to privatize these funds for decades. The only thing the average conservative or liberal v**er can agree on anymore is to shore these programs up, not privatize or cut them. But you go ahead and turn a blind-eye, I'm sure that'll do plenty of good.

No, I most definitely won't.

Not my answer, pal. Biden/Trump= Lose/Lose. Too bad it's taking so long for more people to wake up to that fact.

Tax cuts are not the answer to anything.

If we're lucky neither of these 2 decrepit bozos will be president, there will be no e******n next year until we get serious about solving our own domestic problems.

Yes blame welfare for everything, that's the ticket. Not the greedy rich who want to cut your earned SS and Medicare benefits

Biden ain't my "boy" pal, I'm all over this site making it clear that Trump/Biden = Lose/Lose.

I have no problem acknowledging that there were no major military escalations during Trump's term, but bombs continued to drop in the ME everyday during those years, and his attempt to pull Iran into it was no small thing. So this notion that Trump is a "peace president" is kind of laughable, there hasn't been any president sine JFK that made any serious attempt to reign in the military/CIA, and look what happened there.
As for moral decay, that's a more complicated issue. Forcing your religious beliefs onto others is never a good idea.

If our Congress and Treasury gave a s*** and actually knew what they were doing, there are ways to raise peoples' pay while at the same time keeping prices stable. But they don't, which is why we are subjected constantly to the lie that paying people enough to live on would hurt the economy. It's nonsense.

Not sure yet. Someone else.