The shifting paradigm of the US political spectrum to the left is eroding the strength of the US.

• "Government aid to needy. Over the past six years, the share of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents saying the government should do more to help the needy, even if it means going deeper into debt, has risen 17 percentage points (from 54% to 71%), while the views of Republicans and Republican leaners have only slightly changed (25% then, 24% today)."
  
• "Racial discrimination. In recent years, Democrats’ views on racial discrimination also have changed, driving an overall shift in public opinion. Currently, 41% of Americans say racial discrimination is the main reason many blacks cannot get ahead – the largest share expressing this view in surveys dating back 23 years."
  
• "Climate Change. There is a clear majority of Democrats believe in climate change, the current share (92%) is as high as it has ever been in surveys since 2006. In contrast, Republicans have a large internal conflict over the issue, with a slight majority (52%), mostly in those younger than 30, believing it." These beliefs can be assumed to translate to actions taken to reduce the impact of climate change.
  

• Government aid to needy. The US has no feasible solution to ending poverty, in any significant capacity. Nonetheless, the US has spent more than $1.1 trillion in 2016 for social welfare (Rector & Menon, 2018). In essence, an action that is throwing money at a problem hoping to present, at best, a stop gap, and at worse, a patch of duct tape on the bursting pipe that is our ever-expanding population of needy persons. Add that to the record $22 trillion debt the US is in, and you can see an obvious shortcoming in the plan (Chappell, 2019). A plan that, for all intents and purposes, is of a Democratic making.
  
• Racial discrimination. With a growing focus on race in all matters, from socioeconomic success to decision-making on the casting couch, the Democratic movement has become avid supporters of the organizations cropping up to contest perceived racism, wherever it exists, if it even does. Now, whether or not such organizations are good or ill matters not. But with the political focus becoming a racial matter, it has once again become a prominent talking piece that has incited divides. You can see this quite clearly in the George Floyd protests of 2020 that cost upwards of $2 billion in damages (Polumbo, 2020). This impact of racial divide, once again a making of Democratic advocacy, is a snap in the connection of the American people, and destroys one of the key proponents of power in a country, and that is unity.
  
• Climate Change. Now, whether or not climate change is real or not isn't a major focus of this debate. Instead, I list climate change, not as an aspect of the debate, but as an aspect of Democratic/liberal decision-making. It is government intervention in what is perceived as a social problem. In that regard, and "according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances, public spending to protect the nation’s natural resources jumped from $27.7 billion in 2014 to $32.3 billion in 2018" (Lee, 2021). Again, this is a contributor to the already large pile of debt that the nation is currently sitting on and damaging the US's economy.
  

Liberalism - An ideological stance that supports government intervention to provide social services to the population. Likewise, societal problems are also supposed to be solved by the government. Traditionally, in the US, this stance is one taken by Democrats.
Conservativism - An ideological stance that favors minimal government interference and advocates for private-sector solutions. Traditionally, in the US, this stance is one taken by Republicans.

• Liberalism- A political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.
  
• Conservatism- The holding of political views that favor free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional  ideas.
  

P1: The country has shifted toward the left.

The overall left-ward shift of the country can be most prominently seen in the modern LGBTQ+ and Feminism movements, both recipients of widespread Democratic support. But there are some supporting stats as well. (Pew Research Center, 2017).

• "Government aid to needy. Over the past six years, the share of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents saying the government should do more to help the needy, even if it means going deeper into debt, has risen 17 percentage points (from 54% to 71%), while the views of Republicans and Republican leaners have only slightly changed (25% then, 24% today)."
  
• "Racial discrimination. In recent years, Democrats’ views on racial discrimination also have changed, driving an overall shift in public opinion. Currently, 41% of Americans say racial discrimination is the main reason many blacks cannot get ahead – the largest share expressing this view in surveys dating back 23 years."
  
• "Climate Change. There is a clear majority of Democrats believe in climate change, the current share (92%) is as high as it has ever been in surveys since 2006. In contrast, Republicans have a large internal conflict over the issue, with a slight majority (52%), mostly in those younger than 30, believing it." These beliefs can be assumed to translate to actions taken to reduce the impact of climate change.
  

• A lot of blacks and latinos are born into lower status. 
  
• Finding long-term employment that pays sufficiently is difficult. 
  
• This makes them resort to crime and results in the majority of blacks and latinos being wrongfully profiled. 
  

• The U.S. cannot rely on traditional sources of energy permanently and environmentalists are demanding a change because if we continue down this road, the country will deplete its energy resources.
  
• Alternative means of energy in this case are necessary. 
  

Q1. With regards to your definition of liberalism, would you agree or disagree that liberals want to achieve “political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise,” through the use of government action? If you agree, I’ll concede to your definitions for both terms.

Q2. Would you say that minorities are institutionally oppressed? If no, how can government action do anything beneficial if the situation is the best it can be, with personal freedoms allowed.

Q3. Would you agree that families are the most basic unit of society?

Q4. Would you agree or disagree that US government action can only be taken by majority representation?

Q5. Do you consider awareness of a problem to be synonymous to the eventual resolution of the problem itself?

• Yes. Because that’s the definition. 
  
• Minorities are institutionally oppressed. Statistically speaking, latina and african americans are more likely to be wrongfully sentenced than their white counterparts because of systemic racial biases.
  
• Families - Basic unit of society? You must rephrase that question. 
  
• Can’t say for certain because there are always counter-examples, so it’s not a specifically yes or no answer even if the answer is mostly yes or no. 
  
• Awareness is necessary in order for society to work towards a solution. Without awareness of the problem, action cannot be taken. 
  

Minorities are institutionally oppressed. Statistically speaking, latina and african americans are more likely to be wrongfully sentenced than their white counterparts because of systemic racial biases.

Awareness is necessary in order for society to work towards a solution. Without awareness of the problem, action cannot be taken. 

However, awareness of the problem doesn’t always guarantee sufficient action will be taken either. 

Families - Basic unit of society? You must rephrase that question. 

• Women are freer sexually than they used to be.
  
• Women have access and are encouraged to use birth control, which isn't a stranger to dangerous side effects.
  
• Women have fewer children.
  
• Greater likelihood of divorce by employed women, a statistic which increases as the woman's annual earnings rise.
  

The statistics you use are, at best, correlational to the problem at hand and, at worst, the type of left-wing thought process that fostered my belief that it is weakening the country. The systemic racial biases you speak of, I presume, are widespread, general population biases that inflict harm, in various ways, on minorities. For instance, a jury (the ones who decide guilt or innocence) thinking that the black suspect is a gangster, even if this man in particular isn't, because they view black men as thugs. That's not the problem of the institution. That's a problem of ignorant people, and we already do all the preliminary screening that we can without infringing on their privacy. We can't let off one black person proportional to one white person just because the black population is more numerous in prison. Vice versa, we can't just grab a white person off the street and throw him in jail to even out the scales. Our justice system is in no way perfect, but most of the problems are a result of human individualism, not institutional biases. Changing the institutions to forcefully even out a scale is an act of injustice. And if the institutions are unjust, name one thing that a white person can do that a black person cannot.

This leads me to my next point.

The problem is that left-wing politicians fanned the flames of an angry, blind awareness of the issue that has led to a divisive estrangement of American communities. Yes, there is undoubtedly a difference between the life outcomes of different races. I don't believe anyone would argue differently. My personal opinion, though it is not one unique to me, is that the difference in racial outcomes is a matter of culture, more so than race. 

For example, and this is anecdotal, a man once entered a public elementary school. He asked the kids there what they wanted to be when they grew up. Black kids, on average, aimed to be athletes. White kids, though, wanted to be doctors, lawyers, and to a much lesser degree, athletes as well. Now, sure, you can argue that this is likewise an aspect of a racial bias, in that black athletes are super prevalent, and that can guide youthful dreams, but I could just as well argue that this is indeed racism, and turning white kids away from sport endeavors because they don't feel appropriately represented in professional athletics. I'd argue, in this case, that there should be a handicap for the whites to get equal representation in the athletic spheres. But, that wouldn't be fair. This is the problem though; left-wing politicians are attempting tactics like this to get re-elected. Trying to "balance" the scales for minorities. Take the San Francisco reparations idea (Arango, 2023). It will probably never see the light of day, and for good reason, but talks like that can only serve to spread divide. They are advertising and promoting the idea to take away from the majority, forcefully, to enrichen the minorities. What kind of unity can be achieved in a world like that? And what country can muster strength when its fists are pointing at themselves?

That was pretty much the best way I could summarize the point, but here goes: do you think society can function without families? I don't. In fact, I think it literally couldn't. Society was built, with the smallest aspect of a community, by various families coming together. So, if families were to fall apart, I'd argue that society wouldn't be far behind. The basis for this line of thinking is pretty simple. If the population doesn't expand by families creating more families, it can only weaken, be that because the gene pool thinned, or because people grew old, the reason is unimportant. The point is that when the population doesn't grow, it begins to shrink, and the benefits of being part of the community/society likewise lessen, prompting the individuals to leave, for what reason would they stay if there's no benefits?

I bring this up because this destruction of the family unit is pretty much what the left-wing political advocates have attempted. Feminism, a left-wing endorsed ideology, though seemingly a good thing for equality, has wreaked havoc on families. (Ambert, 1985).

• Women are freer sexually than they used to be.
  
• Women have access and are encouraged to use birth control, which isn't a stranger to dangerous side effects.
  
• Women have fewer children.
  
• Greater likelihood of divorce by employed women, a statistic which increases as the woman's annual earnings rise.
  

Now, none of this is bad, for the individual. They're free from the constraints of the family. But this breaking of the "chain" does bode ill for the country. Before that though, I'd also like to group into this point the LGBTQ+ community which, as you mention, is now legal for matrimony in all fifty states. The point, as I get to it, is that the traditional family is in peril of losing its place as a dominant staple in the country. There is obviously going to be an effect on the population, which is one of the best predicates for a successful economy, as well as military strength.

So, to summarize, left-wing politicians support these movements. These movements hurt citizen unity and population growth. Two very important aspects to governmental strength.

It’s not just racist jury. 

It’s racist prosecutors, racist cops, and sometimes racist judges. African americans and latinas are generally born into a lower class and cannot afford adequate legal counsel to fight back against corruption. 

This is why corrupt cops can get away with fabricating evidence or framing innocent people of color for murder or doing drugs. Because they’re powerless to stop it. 

• Privilege
  

Whites do not need extra-representation in sports just because it is black-dominated. The privilege that whites have over blacks means they have better access to training, nutrition, and equipment. 

Blacks are discouraged from academic or intellectual pursuits because they sometimes lack the financial resources to pursue it, regardless of their full commitment and because of racist employers, using selective hiring to discriminate against candidates of color. 

• Immigrants and Family
  

There is no proof any of these movements are hurting families. 

If anything, leftism is about keeping families together. There are more than a million immigrants in the United States and a certain right-wing politician gave the executive order to deport the illegals, which if successful, would have separated majority of the families currently living in the nation.