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Posted on 5/10/19 at 1:31 pm to LB84
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It will improve after the Boomers and Millenials are gone
FIFY
The Boomers being gone is only one half of the problem.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 1:36 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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We're screwed until the baby-boomers start to die off. Once we lose that voting group, utopia.
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FIFY
Theyre not enough left for ya?
Posted on 5/10/19 at 1:41 pm to notiger1997
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How exactly is it getting shittier every year?
- The political divide is as worse as it has been in my lifetime, with little prospect of improving anytime soon.
- The legislative branch over the past 30-40 years has signed over more and more power to the executive branch of government.
- We have fewer and fewer legislators capable of drafting legislation and spend a bulk of their time in DC fund raising and campaigning for their next election. As a result the bulk of our legislation is written by special interests. As a result special interests have effectively taken over our government and interests on both sides fuel my first point to maintain that power.
- We are in the midst of a massive population shift from rural areas to urban and suburban areas that our lawmakers have ignored. As a result, in 10-20 years, the majority of our lawmakers will come from areas that a minority of the population lives. That's not how our government was designed to work.
- The wealth gap continues to widen, and many of the stopgaps put in place in the great depression have slowly been eroded over the last 30 years.
I could go on, but that's a start. The bottom line is that because our country is so politically divided, it's ill equipped to tackle a lot of the systemic and societal problems that it currently faces. On the micro level, on a day to day basis, things are great and look fine. Take a step back and look at things at a macro level, and there are many festering issues that need addressing.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 1:44 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Boomers generally love exuberant government spending and having the government deeply involved in nearly every facet of our lives, so no.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 1:45 pm to The Spleen
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We are in the midst of a massive population shift from rural areas to urban and suburban areas that our lawmakers have ignored. As a result, in 10-20 years, the majority of our lawmakers will come from areas that a minority of the population lives. That's not how our government was designed to work.
lolwut?
You're off about 180 degrees on this one. The entire reason Trump won because large swaths of the rural population in this country felt shite on and ignored by politicians who only focused on urban areas and urban issues.
This post was edited on 5/10/19 at 2:03 pm
Posted on 5/10/19 at 1:46 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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Boomers generally love exuberant government spending and having the government deeply involved in nearly every facet of our lives, so no.
True. However Millenials are even worse.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 1:58 pm to Centinel
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True. However Millenials are even worse.
Not sure if the research bares that out.
If anything I'd say on most social issues, millennials want a lot less government.
Boomers by and large are fiscally liberal and socially conservative. I don't care what boomers say, their actions over the last 30 years have done the talking.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:00 pm to JohnnyKilroy
And millennials are socially and fiscally leftist.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:01 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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If anything I'd say on most social issues, millennials want a lot less government.
Uhh...it wasn't boomers who started the SJW movement and outrage culture.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:01 pm to Collegedropout
Again, the research shows that millennials are more fiscally conservative than boomers.
Regardless, fiscally and socially left >>> fiscally left and socially right.
Regardless, fiscally and socially left >>> fiscally left and socially right.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:04 pm to Centinel
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Uhh...it wasn't boomers who started the SJW movement and outrage culture.
You know this all started in the 70's and 80's right?
You don't remember the big PC debates back in the early 90s?
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:04 pm to Centinel
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Uhh...it wasn't boomers who started the SJW movement and outrage culture.
Hippes from the 60's weren't boomers? That's news to me.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:10 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
quote:if we could just get rid of the rest of the Confederate statues, we'd be living in a veritable utopia
Or does it seem like everything is just going to keep getting progressively shittier with each passing year?
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:15 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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You don't remember the big PC debates back in the early 90s?
Nothing like we have had in the past ten years. Not even close.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:19 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
What the frick are you talking about? People thought the country was going to go to hell in a handbasket when Obama got elected, now there are people who think the same now that Trump is in office.
The USA is bigger than one person. How is the US progressively getting shittier? You need to stop listening to whatever political shows you listen to and not pay much attention to the shite on social media.
You need to get together with your friends, have some drinks and talk about random bullshite that will make you laugh and get away from all the political bullshite you are being fed everyday.
The USA is bigger than one person. How is the US progressively getting shittier? You need to stop listening to whatever political shows you listen to and not pay much attention to the shite on social media.
You need to get together with your friends, have some drinks and talk about random bullshite that will make you laugh and get away from all the political bullshite you are being fed everyday.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:20 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
No but it may not be just specific to USA either
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:24 pm to Centinel
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Nothing like we have had in the past ten years. Not even close.
You have a very limited view of history. Civil and social unrest have been happening since our founding, and is the main reason we even have a United States of America. You may not like the causes millenials fight for, but it's no different than any other generations fights for their respective causes going all the way back to the 1700's.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:25 pm to Lou Pai
We have an economic system based on infinite growth to basically pay off infinite debt. I get laughed at for my peak oil opinions on this board, but I think a lack of cheap energy to run that pyramid scheme is what will bring it all down.
This post was edited on 5/10/19 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:26 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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You know this all started in the 70's and 80's right?
You don't remember the big PC debates back in the early 90s?
yup
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