We're a very conservative country. Most of our liberals would be considered conservatives in many western democracies.

Absolutely. Your democratic party is more right than our conservative party in Canada.

You as all modern democracies are liberal democracies Sixty, thats just a fact, and thats where I´m coming from, not that I´m a fevered liberal, its just the common ground I think I share with you guys here.

That said...
1. like I said, I dunno if what Biden is proposing is actually correct, the problem you point is in fact a very real one and I have not considered it. This rises some questions.
I only have the Chilean example so tell in what part this differs from yours:
1. vacancy occurs for what ever reasons
2. The supreme court drafts for candidates and present a 5 list nomination to the acting president.
3. The president selects one candidate and makes a nomination
4. The senate has to get to a 2/3s quorum to pass the nomination
5. The new member is confirmed by the president.
Our supreme court is not lacking of issues but partisanship is not one of them

2. The confidence in our justice system is on free-fall too but for this very real issue that theres a justice for the powerful and a justice for the common people, this has generated lots of resentment and its currently a very relevant political issue, its hard to address coz separation of powers.

3. I think that also might be the case, that's why I tried to be clear that I dunno details and only have this general notion of whats happening there.

PS: democracy is not particularly hard in the US. Its just that you like to think that you are very special.

the use of "liberal" in a negative sense is relatively new. Probably just a decade or two.

But "communist" has always been ULTRA negative in the States and, as a result, "socialist" is certainly adjacent.

Being from a socialist country, I used to get annoyed by that, but once I learned that the US is FUNDAMENTALLY conservative at its core, i took less offence cuz rightfully the idea of socialism SHOULD be slightly alien/offensive to an American. It's not in their country's DNA at all.

Rush 100% started it, you’re so right. But I don’t think it caught on until much later but you’re right that it started with him. Probably late 80s even

Oh it doesn’t matter if someone said it before Rush. He is the reason everyone says it. He weaponized it in a propaganda way


Sixty will hate that I bring this up but this great book on partisan politics called “it’s even worse than it looks” cowritten by a Republican and Democrat squarely puts the blame on Rush and then on the Republican party for running with it for so long to the detriment of the nation. It’s a great book.

1. Oh then never mind liberal concerns towards the independency of Justice, I guess it’s all fine if the Supreme Court is partisan driven, coz thats the way you do things.

Nobody who’s complaining about the SC right now really cares about the “independency of Justice”.

This is mostly just being pissed about Roe. And tbh the original ruling was the wrong one; legal scholars have been talking about how poorly reasoned it was since it happened. If we want to have a national standard on abortion, Congress needs to pass it not partisan activist judges

DJ, I wouldn't worry about confirmation bias because it's backed by a lot of facts, so if it strengthens your views with facts (again, co-written by a republican), that's not a bad thing. Plus, I think you'll find all the early signs of Newt and Rush (they are together blamed for what eventually turned into this confrontation partisan gridlock your nation seems to be stuck in) informative and revealing.

Wait I’m sorry… but wasn’t it an obvious affront to Christianity? I mean, even the weak sauce bs about it being some reference to old Greek bacchanalian events should still be an affront to Christianity. Why are they depicting pagan rituals in a dominantly Catholic country?