“The Patriot act”.
I spoke against it when it happened. I especially complained about the paper consolidation of all the departments. It was to obscure what they were doing by using a single letterhead and I did not like hiding things like that. Separately named depts allowed for more accountability that having an “umbrella” didn’t and a lot of bad surveillance happened – and happens still under vestigates of it today.
“The duopoly too”
I wanted John B Anderson when I was 8 years old. 3rd party even at my first aware election cycle. Voted for H. Ross Perot twice. I’m only Democrat because the Progressive Caucus in FL is under its umbrella and it allowed me to vote for Andrew Gillum in the FL Primaries in 2018. No regrets either.
It causes me pain every time I an referred to as a Democrat or “a liberal” (the sneer ‘liberal’ not the descriptive one) – especially when YOU do it because I’d think you knew better.
“Israel / Ukraine:”
I mostly stay OUT of either side of those discussions for many reasons. American foreign policy sucks. That’s as far as I can go with that.