re: MTG trending with her #NationalDivorce tweet

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culture wars across thousands of miles and hundreds of millions of people - a recipe for alienation, absence of accountability, ineffective policy and the loss of any meaningful identity.

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You know what? I think that's all bullshite. If the federal government got its fiscal shite together, I bet most of those problems would either disappear, or close to.

I'm a firm believer that 99% of our problems stem from:

1. Federal fiscal policy regarding wasteful spending and irresponsible borrowing.

2. Our secondary education system graduating students that can't read or do math - or even know which bathroom to use.

3. A welfare system that encourages single parenthood through essentially cash payments.

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boundaries where the government can more easily reflect an identifiable culture of the population

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I know this is an unpopular opinion, but having traveled around quite a bit, I've come to the conclusion the we have a monolithic American culture. African Americans? There's nothing African about them. Just as there's really nothing Irish about Irish Americans, or Italian about Italian Americans. We have a lot more in common than we like to admit.

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I just don't understand how you can say these things and not attribute any of it to culture war battles or the enormous size of our country.

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For one, we've tackled the budget before, and not all that long ago in terms of population and partisanship. I believe we can get there, and more next time. I'm afraid it may take some sort of crisis, though.

I also think the education system could be coming around as I've heard more talk of holding students back more. That's key. Passing failing kids on doesn't just mean they may end up illiterate, but it also reinforces the notion that achievement can be gained by doing nothing. The trans-gender shite in schools? That's all just hype. If the adults would just ignore these stupid teenagers, they would drop the bullshite. But I wonder what the real numbers are for school aged kids having gender issues. I'm betting it's exaggerated. I don't always bury my head in the sand, but sometimes with kids you just have to ignore shite.

Welfare is a serious trick. Part of the problem lies with SNAP, and it's inclusion in the Farm Bill. Both sides get that SNAP pork. But frick giving people money for food, just give them the food. Rice, flour, shortening, greens... And what is this hiding behind a debit card bullshite? No, everyone in line should know who's on the dole. Incentives to get off of gov't subsidies should be coming from different angles, including public shame. We've developed public shame over thousands of years of social evolution for a reason, a non-violent means to keep people in line.

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The reasons we can't control these things:

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Meh.

We can, it's just a matter of what will compel us to. It'll probably be a crisis. We seem sort of crisis-management oriented. I just hope not too many people will have to die.

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So, work tax-funded government jobs?

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Keyword WORK. do something productive towards society or sit on their arse playing video games, while government funded, eating government funded food (ebt

No it doesn’t. You just want to deflect blame. Let’s just ignore it and hope it goes away should be chiseled onto every boomer headstone.

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No it doesn’t.

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Yeah, kinda...

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My parents tried to raise me right. It didn't work. Now here I am.

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You boomers did such a good job, half the country wants to leave

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Not me, I'm doing great.

Good luck with your future, though.

NSIAP

Secession would need a group with political and institutional power. National divorce enthusiasts, unlike Confederates, have neither.

The left controls the levers of our economic system, federal law enforcement, the justice system, the media, and academia, and is in progress of attaining control over the military.

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There are going to be alot of conservatives there then. And that would defeat the whole purpose of your proposition. You’re so worried about welfare recipients in New Orleans, for example, but say nothing about Denham Springs. I'm not surprised you are making this a race thing. You really think white people on welfare vote Republican? fricking dumbass.

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Wow. You are an idiot if you don’t think these poor southerners don’t vote Republican and don’t hypocritically holler about my foodstamps! Look at southern states that are republican. Look at their median income. Common sense would tell you that poor, welfare dependent white folks do sometimes vote Republican.

There is help out there for illiterate adults.