NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
What we’ve learned in the post-Reagan era is this:
America can remain a center-right nation or a globally relevant nation but definitely not both.
We’ve seen the results of tolerating libertarians who will not be governed.
We’ve seen the results of rejecting social modernity.
We’ve seen the folly of believing in moderate solutions for immoderate problems.
And we’re now seeing the results of catastrophic mistakes made during the framing of our constitution.
This is what we’ve got left:
We’re domestically a boiling cauldron of hatred as our tolerance for one another is all but completely depleted.
We’re now rapidly heading toward Waterworld because we’ve done nothing about man-caused climate change.
Our economy is predictably tanking because we’ve failed to address the ever expanding wealth gap between the oligarchs and the working class.
China will now have to find other customers to support their economic dominance because our consumers are nearly out of money.
The founders fucked up by giving rural conservatives excessive representation relative to their number.
Rural conservatives have used that power to run American deeply into the ground.
There is no strong national will to reverse that trend. We've essentially accepted our fate, even if not consciously facing it.
Thus, we are getting the dystopia that we so richly deserve as the modern world leaves us in the dust.
We Euro-American boomers will be the last generation of Americans to have lived most of our lives in civilization.
The descendants of African slaves never quite got there,
and the indigenous Americans lost whatever they had of it centuries ago.
America can remain a center-right nation or a globally relevant nation but definitely not both.
We’ve seen the results of tolerating libertarians who will not be governed.
We’ve seen the results of rejecting social modernity.
We’ve seen the folly of believing in moderate solutions for immoderate problems.
And we’re now seeing the results of catastrophic mistakes made during the framing of our constitution.
This is what we’ve got left:
We’re domestically a boiling cauldron of hatred as our tolerance for one another is all but completely depleted.
We’re now rapidly heading toward Waterworld because we’ve done nothing about man-caused climate change.
Our economy is predictably tanking because we’ve failed to address the ever expanding wealth gap between the oligarchs and the working class.
China will now have to find other customers to support their economic dominance because our consumers are nearly out of money.
The founders fucked up by giving rural conservatives excessive representation relative to their number.
Rural conservatives have used that power to run American deeply into the ground.
There is no strong national will to reverse that trend. We've essentially accepted our fate, even if not consciously facing it.
Thus, we are getting the dystopia that we so richly deserve as the modern world leaves us in the dust.
We Euro-American boomers will be the last generation of Americans to have lived most of our lives in civilization.
The descendants of African slaves never quite got there,
and the indigenous Americans lost whatever they had of it centuries ago.
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