tangerinegreen555
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Since the 1980's...it's damn accurate.
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Unclebaldrick
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I don't know. We are certainly in crisis mode. But we might be near a tipping point. I am almost as pleased with what I see in recent trends as I am horrified. The enthusiasm and commitment to society that some showed was outweighed by the nationalism and racism shown by others. Shit is in the wind in America to be sure but I believe we live in a robust system. Nothing here is new. A demagogue vs a corrupt career politician is an old scenario but life goes on.
Wife and I were watching a documentary on 1964. In the political realm, it was a very similar situation in regard to choices society is making today. We chose the Great Society over the selfishness and predatory nature of an unregulated free market.
I think we are figuring it out. Demographics says we are too. You are hearing the wheezing of the old guard as it slips into death.
Unclebaldrick
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You see it first in how people behave on the roads - at least in the cities. Country people have no traffic so their relationships get tested in other ways. It had been obvious forever.
ttystikk
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We are in a crisis, all right. I'm not so confident America will be able to make the right choices.
Unclebaldrick
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I'm scared shitless. Sometimes that is what change needs.
Democracy dodges bullets - until it doesn't
tangerinegreen555
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I live out in the country...kinda.
You'd be amazed how many people like driving with their tires over the center line these days. Usually with Trump bumper stickers...
Just sayin'...
tangerinegreen555
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Your lack of confidence is well founded.
It's not 'ask what you can do for your country' anymore...
Unclebaldrick
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Is it just me or do people now days often think that driving with your high-beams on is just fine on a divided highway?
tangerinegreen555
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that too...with those fucking blue lights
ttystikk
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Yep. Nailed it. If the movers and shakers get away with murder then the rule of law is meaningless.
Unclebaldrick
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Oh could I tell you stories of traffic terror in the city. Since I have left, road rage shootings have become commonplace. It will get worse... but then we will have driverless cars and gain an immediate 40% more capacity on our roads.
But my point is that change may come quicker than you think in people's attitudes. They need inspiration. It could come from a person or from collective action via government or society. I do not feel that either candidate can provide that personally. I feel the TRUMP Offers fear as a currency and fraud as a value. On the other hand, I could conceive of some good appointments and legislation from a Hillary Presidency- if the other side is not able to block her every move. One one hand, she is twice as easy to hate as Obama. But on the other, she is white.
Nutes and Nugs
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tangerinegreen555
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now back to our regularly scheduled bull shit
Unclebaldrick
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How to write a right-wing nut job meme:
1. State the obvious
2. Apply mean-spirit to everything.
Dog whistle bullshit.
You mean by not ever signalling and passing people on the right, through a ditch?
Yup some real idiots on the road down here.
NLXSK1
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So you are the idiot doing 20MPH under the speed limit!!! *shakey fist*
That's the same thought processes that ended up with the super delegate.
Did it work?
Rob Roy
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The first sentence in your post made sense.
Then you went all cognitive dissonant...
The second sentence in your post contradicted it.
Can you name any government which does not initiate forcible means systemically?
ttystikk
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That wasn't any part of what I'd call a solution.
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