re: Assignment in history class

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Which events of the last 22 years will be featured most prominently in future books? Why?

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The death of George Floyd and the BLM riots. I am serious.
This triggered the left into believing they could do and say anything they wanted and the country had to bow at the altar of wokeism.
They could sequester a whole secvtion of a major city and name it CHAD.

They could burn buildings and police cars and have the despicable and deplorable media describe it as mostly peaceful.

They could decide what pronouns to be called by and have anyone not going along be prosecuted.

They could threaten the life of a law abiding youg man and when he shot their arm off in self defense they could charge him with attempted murder.

They could congregate in the streets with impumity despite the Covid rules, while church going people were arrested for holding servies in the open in a parking lot.

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Are there major shifts in recent society that concern you and your family? Explain

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The acceptance of diversity to the point where incompatible cultures are forced to occupy the same space, with the host culture being deemed as needing to change when the new culture refuses to assimilate.

Explain:
--The violent crime in the EU (at least as much as is tracked) has increased steadily and sharply since the migration crisis began around 2015. A 2022 RealClearInvestigations analysis of UNODC data from 2010–2020 suggests homicides in the EU increased, with a correlation to rising foreign-born populations. Specifically, it found that a 1% increase in the immigrant population was associated with a 3.6% increase in the homicide rate. This is because foreign cultures are increasingly less likely to assimilate to their new host cultures as their own population grows to insulate them from the pressure to do so. This problem is compounded by those within the host culture who believe it's their own fault for being accepting of enough diversity of other cultures. This is now setting up an environment where the guest cultures are emboldened to violence in order to attempt to change the host culture into being more like their own.

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What emerging trends have developed in recent American history? Explain

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Two centuries ago, a somewhat obscure Scotsman named Alexander Fraser Tytler made this profound observation: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury." Today, we are seeing that come to fruition.

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--Our federal debt is currently $37T and constantly climbing. The deficit is currently averaging ~$1.8T and expected to be as high as $2.5T-$2.7T by 2035. Every Congress over the last 20+ years has proven that regardless of how much tax revenue comes into the public coffers, they will spend more. Not coincidentally, current debt servicing of the federal debt is one of the largest spending categories in the federal budget (eclipsing defense spending, but falling behind Social Security and Medicare/caid). According to CBO analysis, it's projected to be the largest expenditure in the budget by FY2028 (which is now two years sooner than predictions prior to COVID).

This is all to say that a lack of taxation isn't the problem, uncontrolled spending is the problem. That uncontrolled spending is driven by politicians who run on, and then get elected for, promising greater spending on government programs to help various groups. In order to balance the FY2024 budget and still service the debt, total spending would have had to have been cut by ~31%. That's not just a 31% cut to Social Security, Medicare/caid, Section 8, SNAP and other social programs, it's also a 31% cut to the pay of every federal employee and contractor as well as the VA, transportation, NASA, ink for printers, fuel and maintenance for every federal vehicle, every military vehicle, a cut in pay for ever service member, politician, park ranger, etc.

No one runs for federal office just to guarantee they never win another election and that's exactly what would happen to anyone who voted for such a large cut (especially if it somehow passed). They, their families and possibly their friends would be the targets of harassment, death threats and likely attempts on their lives because the addiction to federal deficit spending has reached so deeply into every corner of our society.

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Which events of the last 22 years will be featured most prominently in future books? Why?

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I've already done 2/3 of your homework for you. This one you will have to do for yourself.

The extreme bifurcation of the political landscape has had a profound impact on our society.

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What emerging trends have developed in recent American history? Explain

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A comedy has become a documentary.

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Podcasts and Twitter have become the main source of real news

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That explains everything else in the post.

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Not really. It puts it post 9/11 which is probably the point of the question. ETA: Basically avoid everyone just saying 9/11 will be the event most talked about in history books.

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That’s a generous interpretation of the question. Probably correct, but this is the OT, the source of the question must only be the most nefarious

The counting of noncitizens in the census and the push for open borders flooding illegals to sanctuary cities (LA, Chicago, NY) in hopes of using the illegals in the next census to gain more House seats and tilt the balance of power without winning policies.

Always finding someone to blame when bad stuff happens ie weather, diseases, sports etc.

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I want to live to be like 250 just to read the Covid books.

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I see how it could be interesting, but I hardly can’t stand the world how it is today, much less be around for 250 more years. lol.