Not the person you responded to, but no.

As long as the US does not fix it’s broken two party system and reconciles it’s divided society it cannot be trusted.

What makes you think the stock market crashing is not his aim?

Devaluating the dollar might be the goal, not a side effect: A Users Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System

Nope, that’s not what communists mean, when communists talk about communism. What you describe is the dictatorship of the proletariat, not communism aka the time when all means of production are owned communally, everyone enjoys working according to their ability and lovingly shares all goods according to their needs.

Of course, if you use the term “communism” to refer to the political movement that tries to achieve communism through revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat, you’re 100 % right.

telling others not to buy something from Trump’s buddies is verboten. Remember: it’s the President’s burden to interpret the law.

Darn! you got me.

Snake liver oil would be more powerful.

Selected by the ruling oligarchs, not the people. Venice was an aristocratic republic, not a democracy.

Depends on your definition of “actual”.

I totally agree that the original 12 steps cannot work for anyone not believing in an Abrahamitic god.

I’d say that you need the actual steps for other people, i.e. the steps the AA are really taking, not the steps they claim to take.

If you want to detach step 11 from it’s Christian roots, you cannot just substitute “God” in its wording. That yields nonsense, as you are stating correctly.

The aim of Step 11 is “knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” In non–religious terms I would call this aim “committment”.

The means of Step 11 to achieve commitment is spirituality, spirituality being a set of basic convictions that provides meaning, purpose and a sense of belonging.

A “neutral” Meta—Step 11 might be worded something like:

“We consciously develop a healthy spiritual basis for our live, gaining motivation and comittment through it.”

As any religion, philosophy, ideology or other system of basic convictions can provide this spiritual basis for an individual, the formulation of a more concrete and helpful Step 11 will differ between e.g. communists, buddhists, naturists and epicureans.