Is the age of Enlightenment over?

Most did not vote for this, but... more who voted did than did not. We are beyond enlightenment and back to superstition and conspiracy theory.
 
Jarod said:
Most did not vote for this, but... more who voted did than did not. We are beyond enlightenment and back to superstition and conspiracy theory.
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Even lower income white Trump voters don't want their food stamps, disability, or Medicaid cut. We are not generally losing on policy and governance.

Democrats need to learn that people vote on culture at least as much as they do on policy. Democrats got hammered on the perception *all* we care about is transgender NCAA swimmers, flying LBGTQ flags, and our supposed overt hostility to Christianity.

Even if the perception is not fair, that is the kind of thing that loses millions of votes in blue collar states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.
 
Cypress said:
Even lower income white Trump voters don't want their food stamps, disability, or Medicaid cut. We are not generally losing on policy and governance.

Democrats need to learn that people vote on culture at least as much as they do on policy. Democrats got hammered on the perception *all* we care about is transgender NCAA swimmers, flying LBGTQ flags, and our supposed overt hostility to Christianity.

Even if the perception is not fair, that is the kind of thing that loses millions of votes in blue collar states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.
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You alt lefties STILL haven't figured out why and how you lost the elections.
I guess I say, thank you for that.
 
Jarod said:
Has the era of the Enlightenment ended; are we are back in a time of superstition and conspiracy theories.

IT seems, at least in the United States this is true. What do you think?
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Is it even necessary to ask?

We've seen the advent of a new dark age,
and the last one took a millennium to even begin overcoming.

I'm not certain that humanity has a millennium left.
Species tend to go extinct once they start regressing.
 
Cypress said:
Even lower income white Trump voters don't want their food stamps, disability, or Medicaid cut. We are not generally losing on policy and governance.

Democrats need to learn that people vote on culture at least as much as they do on policy. Democrats got hammered on the perception *all* we care about is transgender NCAA swimmers, flying LBGTQ flags, and our supposed overt hostility to Christianity.

Even if the perception is not fair, that is the kind of thing that loses millions of votes in blue collar states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.
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What you say about voters is true, and that truth is why we're fucked.

Far too great a percentage of the American population is debilitatingly stupid,
and we don't have the gene altering capabilities to mitigate that.

Even the Americans who deserve to survive don't have anything close to the stomach required
to do what's necessary to manifest that survival.

If you want to help marginalized people,
you have to win your elections.

Otherwise, you can't help anybody.

If you make helping marginilized people the focus of your campaign
as opposed to economic quality of life issues for most people,
you're never going to win
and nobody's ever going to get any help.

Perhaps there are solutions for which I lack the aptitude to understand.

I can't see how anything other than a vicious, Draconian purge
of everybody to the right of Bernie Sanders
is going to revive this crumbling nation.

These days, it's at least comforting to know
that one has a hell of a lot more yesterdays than tomorrows.

Some of the yesterdays were decent and most were tolerable, at least for some of us.
Our direction portends nothing even tolerable for anybody but idiots.
 
The Age of Enlightenment, also known as the Enlightenment, does not have a precise end date as it transitions into subsequent cultural and intellectual movements. However, historians generally consider its peak to be from the late 17th century to about the end of the 18th century:

  • Early Enlightenment: Begins around the late 17th century with philosophers like John Locke and Isaac Newton.
  • High Enlightenment: Often pegged from the 1730s to around 1780, with figures like Voltaire, Rousseau, and Kant at the forefront.
  • Late Enlightenment: Continues into the late 18th century, overlapping with events like the American Revolution (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789), which are seen by some as both products of Enlightenment thought and catalysts for its decline or transformation.

By the early 19th century, Romanticism began to emerge, which in many ways was a reaction against Enlightenment rationalism, signaling a shift in intellectual focus. Therefore, while the Enlightenment's influence persisted, its distinct period is commonly considered to have ended:

  • Around the 1790s with the aftermath of the French Revolution, where Enlightenment ideals were put to extreme tests.
  • Or by the early 1800s, as new philosophical and cultural movements like Romanticism took hold.

This transition was not abrupt but rather a gradual shift where Enlightenment ideas continued to influence but in new contexts and sometimes in opposition to new emerging ideologies.


@Grok
 
Cypress said:
Even lower income white Trump voters don't want their food stamps, disability, or Medicaid cut. We are not generally losing on policy and governance.

Democrats need to learn that people vote on culture at least as much as they do on policy. Democrats got hammered on the perception *all* we care about is transgender NCAA swimmers, flying LBGTQ flags, and our supposed overt hostility to Christianity.

Even if the perception is not fair, that is the kind of thing that loses millions of votes in blue collar states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.
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Random phrases. No apparent coherency.
 
We have members who argue with pictures, a President who writes like a child, millions of social media illiterates. It's a mixed bag, however.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
What you say about voters is true, and that truth is why we're fucked.

Far too great a percentage of the American population is debilitatingly stupid,
and we don't have the gene altering capabilities to mitigate that.

Even the Americans who deserve to survive don't have anything close to the stomach required
to do what's necessary to manifest that survival.

If you want to help marginalized people,
you have to win your elections.

Otherwise, you can't help anybody.

If you make helping marginilized people the focus of your campaign
as opposed to economic quality of life issues for most people,
you're never going to win
and nobody's ever going to get any help.

Perhaps there are solutions for which I lack the aptitude to understand.

I can't see how anything other than a vicious, Draconian purge
of everybody to the right of Bernie Sanders
is going to revive this crumbling nation.

These days, it's at least comforting to know
that one has a hell of a lot more yesterdays than tomorrows.

Some of the yesterdays were decent and most were tolerable, at least for some of us.
Our direction portends nothing even tolerable for anybody but idiots.
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If you really wanted to help marginalized people you could just do so with your own money and not outsource your compassion. Imagine if every caring leftist like yourself just committed to supporting ONE marginalized person what you could accomplish? You wouldn't have to wait on the gobblement to do it. You could do it yourself.

But marxists like you aren't interested in solving problems
 
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