re: Where do you guys see the U.S headed in the next 50-60 years?

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Why would a person that believes the country is going to collapse within their lifetime bring a child into the world?

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Uh if you read my post the kid was never planned.

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Uh if you read my post the kid was never planned.

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My point still remains.

Abortion was never an option.

Just combine all the flag waving rah rah stuff with a bit more inclusion and a bit less fingerpointing and we have a populist message that suits a more moderate coalition.
The sane 20 percent need to take the country back from the extremists on both sides of the aisle.

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I just have little confidence that at the end if this century America and the world will go through a massive transformation and it won't be fir the better.

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No doubt the world is going to transform. Whether or not its for the better, well, we shall see.

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It's best to follow the advice my dad gave to me and just focus on what's good for you and your family

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The best advice.

Ignore the fear mongering and focus on what important. Focus on what you can control.

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Those statistics don't help your case at all. 42.4% is disturbing

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Never said it wasn't disturbing. However, you said it was skyrocketing. It is not. It's moving in the right direction.

That was my bad

The dating apps have me full of anecdotal single mom evidence

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Why would a person that believes the country is going to collapse within their lifetime bring a child into the world?

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There are other countries

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Society has a way of correcting itself. We see cultural shifts from right to left and back again every decade or so.

I think we are overall drifting left, and I expect us to drift left further and further.

I do agree that we can't even conceive of what society will be like 50 years. The rate of technological change is just accelerating.

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Not sure I agree with that.

The U.S. - and frankly, the Western world in general - has drifted left on some issues over the last couple of generations and has drifted right on other issues.

The acceptance of ethnic minorities, immigrants, different religions, and people with alternative lifestyles has certainly increased in the last fifty years or so. America has become more liberal on abortion than it has ever been. The country generally cares more about the environment now than it used to, though that's kind of waned and waxed since at least Theodore Roosevelt.

The U.S. - and the Western world in general - is a lot more conservative economically than it was fifty years ago. Most of the developed worlds' economies were in the shitter by the mid-1970's after about thirty years of a steady migration left in tax policy, regulation, ease of entrepreneurship, etc., etc. Europe, especially, had to learn that lesson the hard way. I think we're becoming more conservative - in the Burkean sense of the word - with regards to foreign policy after a couple of generations' worth of misadventures. The population hasn't moved at all regarding gun rights, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

I think Andrew Sullivan had a lot right in his recent article, and I think we are poised to take an abrupt turn the other way in the near future. The country will drift left economically but right socially - especially regarding immigration - in the coming decades. I think the animus regarding immigration isn't limited to Trump's whinging rhetoric at all, and it's going to take time to fully absorb 80+ million first- and second-generation Americans into a cohesive society. I think those problems will be even more acute in Europe. Concerning inclusiveness, I don't foresee any major cultural wars like gay marriage or the civil rights movement on the horizon, and the one area that gets the most focus here (policing) is a pretty messy and complicated issue that involves a lot of African-Americans and Latinos on the other end of the badge as well (i.e., it's not a clean right/wrong issue for most people).