What are the biggest issues for you for the 2024 presidential election
What are the biggest issues for you for the 2024 presidential election
I'm new to Lemmy, and trying to get a gauge on the community. Unfortunately, it seems that it's just gonna be another heavily left wing website, but hoping that the smaller pockets of users will be reasonable.
What are the issues that the Conservative community here cars about most?
I just want someone to bring us back financially and to the level of world peace that we were experiencing in 2019. This runaway inflation that we have experienced the last year or 2 has got to stop
I agree, I'm an accountant now, and very fiscally conservative.
In my lifetime the most fiscally conservative president we've had is clinton. Bush and Obama spent trillions on a useless war in the middle east. Trump spent absurd amounts as well, and it's arguable how much was necessary due to covid restrictions.
But the one thing I absolutely value is less military intervention. Trump, whether it's due to him or not, didn't get us involved in anymore military conflicts.
I have the same sentiments as the other 3 commenting on this thread. To add one thing, I dislike trump and I truly hope the GOP nominates someone other than trump.
stop sending money overseas. balance the budget, decrease spending. end nanny-state programs. delete the tax laws and do them all over again to remove loopholes.
Agreed, I'm a tax accounting and simplifying the tax code is something extremely vital for the future of our country.
The problem is it feels too far gone, it would take an absolute overhaul because of how complicated taxes are, and I don't have faith our politicians can or wants to overhaul the tax code.
I just want Biden out of office. I've taken quite a hit financially since he took office.
Can you explain the financial hit you took and how it's a result of his policies?
My "single issue voter" issue is guns. I firmly believe that if you want gun control, you're either an idiot or a bad person.
I also think immigration needs to be curtailed. Its just companies importing cheap labor.
The number one cause of deaths for children in the U.S. is firearms. The U.S. is unique in this. Most other countries have been able to figure it out and deal with it, and they do so through gun control.
I firmly believe that if you want gun control, you’re either an idiot or a bad person.
You honestly believe that following in the footsteps of the rest of the developed world to reduce the deaths of children makes somebody an idiot or a bad person? That's ridiculous.
The number one cause of deaths for children in the U.S. is firearms. The U.S. is unique in this. Most other countries have been able to figure it out and deal with it, and they do so through gun control.
Only if you don't count under 1s and you do count 18 and 19 year olds. Lying with stats at it's best.
You honestly believe that following in the footsteps of the rest of the developed world to reduce the deaths of children makes somebody an idiot or a bad person? That’s ridiculous.
Yes. Have you seen the rest of developed world?
Australia prohibitted fucking Muskets and now they banned Hentai (which is the government basically saying "You are not adults, drawings are for adults only"). They also can't figure out how to house their people, and they're going after Indigenous people. They've heavily curtailed freedom of movement, to the point a baby died because they couldn't get care. At one point, there were only 4 affordable places for rent in the entire country, and they decided to keep importing people (a byword for cheap labor).
Britain is going after knives now, and they convicted a guy over a joke (as in a joke that was spoken, and was clearly a joke, not even questionably a joke). They've heavily curtailed freedom of speech. The NHS is failing, and they keep importing more people (cheap workers, not doctors) further overloading the system. Not to mention their housing crisis.
Canada is facing similar problems, going after native Canadians, healthcare system overloaded, housing crisis, cheap labor pushing wages down.
I'm not saying America is perfect, but Lord Almighty are they having a hard time, and it's entirely self-inflicted. And lefties wonder why the right wing is on the rise.
I'm not the biggest gun guy myself, all I have is my dads old .22, but gun rights I definitely would like our future president to respect.
I'm for some of the more basic restrictions - but what is being pushed by the left ('assault' weapon bans, semi automatic bans) is atrocious and unconstitutional. It seems obvious to me that to work to ban something, you should at least try to understand it. But the left seems obsessed with trying to ban guns with absolutely 0 knowledge about them
I own 16 guns. I support banning AR-15 style assault weapons, gun owner insurance (like car insurance), and I am donating time and money to get it done. I work every day with Europeans. Their kids don't have "active shooter" drills. My daughter is scared to death of going to school, and I don't blame her. This has got to stop.