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Honestly, what can be done to save this Country?

Posted on 7/8/16 at 12:54 am
Posted by TigerFanInSouthland
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2012
28065 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 12:54 am
Take this with a grain of salt, I'm only 22, so this is the first time I'm seeing the country truly divided. In the late 60's the country was extremely divided, no? But there is no way that the country was even close to being as divided as it is now back then right?

I honestly can't see how WE are going to get out of this continual downhill slope that seems to be getting steeper and steeper.

We have some of the highest politicians in the land blatantly breaking laws and the highest justice department in the land allowing them to get off. We constantly have race riots or race related shootings. Our president seems to be stoking the fire on the race relations. We refuse to confront an enemy that has killed quite a few Americans. (ISIS) When we try to get tough with other countries they just laugh at us.

We have feckless, immoral, and weak leaders (if you can even call them leaders) who will ALWAYS push their own agenda. Right or wrong be damned. We used to stand for something bigger, we used to have morals and they have just completely been thrown out the window.

I was always told that no one person was bigger than America, because America is more than just a nation, it's an idea. An idea that the PEOPLE could choose their own destiny, choose the way they wanted to live their own lives. I guess I was wrong, I guess my mom and dad, and their parents, and their parents before them, and all the ancestors of my family that dates its roots here beginning in the early 1700's, I guess they were wrong, too.

Tonight, I weep for the America I was always told about. Have a good one guys, stay safe out there. We'll bounce back from this.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
260020 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 12:54 am to
Wait until the Republican convention. It's going to get worse.
Posted by blowmeauburn
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2006
7885 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 12:56 am to
A strong leader that focuses on the good in our country rather than its faults. That would be a start anyways. Basically Reagan reincarnate.
Posted by Purple Spoon
Hoth
Member since Feb 2005
17778 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 12:56 am to
What happening there?

More than 11 cops getting shot?
Posted by geauxnavybeatbama
Member since Jul 2013
25134 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 12:59 am to
There wasn't social media in the 60s. Been like this for a while you just see it more because of the Internet
Posted by m2pro
Member since Nov 2008
28596 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:00 am to
Stop buying the bullshite you get fed from the second you wake up to the second you go to sleep on tv, computer, radio etc.

Refocus on the family unit. The family unit is weak.

Stop allowing the government to lure voters in with money to get more votes.

For starters.
This post was edited on 7/8/16 at 1:01 am
Posted by Honky Lips
Member since Dec 2015
2828 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:03 am to
quote:

There wasn't social media in the 60s. Been like this for a while you just see it more because of the Internet


This.
Posted by Pax Regis
Alabama
Member since Sep 2007
12930 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:03 am to
Were going to have to stop coddling and celebrating bullshite bad behaviors. Get back to basics and individual responsibility. Which means we're fricked because that is not going to happen. Instead I'm buying more guns and ammo.
Posted by AcetylCoA
Pasadena, California
Member since Nov 2009
2654 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:04 am to
Cops have to stop shooting blacks. There is video now you can't get away with it anymore. I remember neing harassed twice and searched and cuffed for no reason while in college for being black.That shooting in Minnesota was just gut wrenching.
Posted by PurpleandGold Motown
Birmingham, Alabama
Member since Oct 2007
21958 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:06 am to
A good outside threat always helps. Prosperity and comforts breeds infighting. It's an old story. They've been trying to pump up ISIS but no one really sees them as an existential threat. Now, they are trying to make Russia and China the external enemy we need, but in truth, we are just too powerful.

We need aliens.
Posted by TigerFanInSouthland
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2012
28065 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:07 am to
I guess maybe the biggest saving grace with all this is one day it's going to collapse on itself (big gov't, nationalized healthcare, stock market and auto bailouts, etc.) and the chickens will be home to roost. Then maybe people will start seeing all the empty promises they've been fed. Maybe then people will understand real hardship.

It's gonna suck when it happens, but it could possibly make or break us.
Posted by Macintosh504
Leveraging Salaries University
Member since Sep 2011
52560 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:12 am to
Nuke it and start over
This post was edited on 7/8/16 at 1:14 am
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
63218 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:12 am to
I wonder what the mood was while this was going on in New Orleans in the early '70s. Anyone around at the time?

quote:

Mark James Robert Essex (August 12, 1949[1] – January 7, 1973) was an American mass murderer who killed nine people, including five policemen, and wounded 13 others in New Orleans on December 31, 1972 and January 7, 1973.


The New Orleans Howard Johnson Sniper
This post was edited on 7/8/16 at 1:17 am
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
260020 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:14 am to
quote:

Cops have to stop shooting blacks. There is video now you can't get away with it anymore. I remember neing harassed twice and searched and cuffed for no reason while in college for being black.That shooting in Minnesota was just gut wrenching.


What about cops shooting whites?
Posted by TulaneFan
Slidell, LA
Member since Jan 2008
14035 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:17 am to
quote:

Prosperity and comforts breeds infighting.


This is how I feel. A major reason why people fight and bitch about things like politics, gun control, social issues, etc. - is because we are comfortable. If we had worse problems; there was a shortage of food, we didn't have clean water to drink, I believe all hell would break lose
Posted by Hammertime
Will trade dowsing rod for titties
Member since Jan 2012
43030 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:19 am to
And what about blacks shooting cops?
Posted by TulaneFan
Slidell, LA
Member since Jan 2008
14035 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:20 am to
what about blacks shooting blacks?

This doesn't seem to cause much uproar nowadays
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
63218 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:21 am to
quote:

This is how I feel. A major reason why people fight and bitch about things like politics, gun control, social issues, etc. - is because we are comfortable. If we had worse problems; there was a shortage of food, we didn't have clean water to drink, I believe all hell would break lose


It's like a Satanic parallel of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. As we move up Maslow's, we move down the Satanic Hierarchy.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
260020 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:23 am to
quote:

And what about blacks shooting cops?


These protesters have no idea that the statistics don't support their argument

More white people are killed by cops even though more black folks commit homicide. It seems that cops would be more aggressive with homicide perps.

There is a higher rate of black on white violence than white on black

The rate of murder for black on white homicide is twice the rate of white on black homicide.

In truth, they're fabricating some sense of victimhood when it's actually backward of reality.
This post was edited on 7/8/16 at 1:25 am
Posted by SirWinston
PNW
Member since Jul 2014
81397 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 1:24 am to


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