Globalism takes one step further to wipe individuality altogether but at least you can realistic have a democracy with a country compared to an entire world ... 

Interventionism is a basis for foreign entanglements, not nationalism ... 

That's not really how that works. When someone says that statistics are misleading they're saying that they are easily misinterpreted. The actual numbers themselves are very often correct, it's just that people can make mistakes by not looking at them in the correct way.

Your post is actually a great example.

You assume that because happiness is lower than ever, there most be something wrong with statistics about economic growth. But if we take a closer look at that information, we can put together a better picture of what's going on.

Since it's creation in 2008 the Harris poll is the source that most news outlets will use when they are talking about the happiness of Americans and yes, 2016 showed the smallest percentage of Americans that consider themselves "very happy" at 31%. But that's not the whole story. You see, 81% of American adults consider themselves "generally happy", and while that's down from last year (82%) it's as high or higher than it was between 2009 and 2013.

Digging deeper into the available data we see that certain specific question can shed more light on our issue. For instance, the Haris poll asks the question "I frequently worry about my financial situation". This is great because it asks people to directly tie their economic sistuation with their happiness (with low numbers being good). The result? 62% percent of American adults said yes. The lowest percentage since they started taking the poll.

So, the takeaway here is that although less American adults consider themselves very happy. The percentage of the population that is generally happy hasn't changed dramatically since 2008, and the data shows that economic concerns are less of a factor than they have ever been.

Sorry to ramble. I just wanted to show that things aren't always as they seem at first glance.

I don't even understand how its between these two...

Next time they should just hold a reality TV show called Americas Next President. Competence is obviously not something you need to become a president anymore.

If you read my post again you'll notice that I don't say nationalism has anything to do with our foreign intervention.

Globalism has nothing to do with individualism.

Democracy or any specific political system also has nothing to do with Globalism.

What point are you even trying to make here?

I cite again fivethirtyeight.com:

"Jody: Well, that was the other part. Twenty-five percent of Clinton supporters said the same."

"Nate Silver: Beyond that, I think you get into false precision, though. A couple of years ago, my colleague Allison McCann and I looked at the general social survey which asks about racial attitudes in a lot of different ways, and of the white population, you can get anywhere from five percent to 50 percent, depending on how you ask the question about anti-black racism. And there’s a question about how they split between Clinton supporters and Trump supporters, but if someone submitted that in an article at FiveThirtyEight, we’d say “needs citation.”"

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/putting-hillarys-basket-of-deplorables-in-context/

And more detailed with data:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-of-trumps-supporters-really-are-deplorable/

He made this initial statements with his guts without a model, and he regrets it:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-i-acted-like-a-pundit-and-screwed-up-on-donald-trump/

As soon as he analyzed it with a model, he was more accurate.

You're talkiing about the Marxist left, not the US "left". In my country Hillary would most likely be in our right of centre party not our left of centre party.  You seem to be buying into the BS rhetoric that Hillary is a socialist. She's not left at all in any objective sense. She's just leff of the Republican party, which is getting far right.

The best option is always the centre. Going far right or left are equally dangerous.

Here's who I'm voting for...

I think you're an idiot honestly, I'm just sitting here hoping your account is a parody because if not I hope Katy Perry joins forces with Beyonce (top witch) and casts some hex on you.

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I think it will be close, but I don't see his path to victory right now. He has to hold so many states while flipping other states.

Right now he could win Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio and it still would not be enough to achieve 270 electoral votes. Need to keep in mind how the president is elected, Obama beat Romney 65 million to 60 million, but electorally it was a 332 to 206 margin of victory.

I am still looking to the debates and how they might affect those critical swing states.