When did our society start to decay? What happened?

This is as old as man. Every generation thinks things are getting worse. The only significant difference is the right and the plutocrats are after the press. They see a free press as a threat to be extinguished. That is a real fundamental fear.
 
Nordberg said:
This is as old as man. Every generation thinks things are getting worse. The only significant difference is the right and the plutocrats are after the press. They see a free press as a threat to be extinguished. That is a real fundamental fear.
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because they hate Democracy


they have been cheating in elections for decades

people who love Democracy don't cheat in elections
 
Tranquillus in Exile said:
The Know Nothings tried to raise the alarm! They were the Trumpsters of the 1840s.

They warned of a Popish plot to take over the country. But they couldn't get a president elected.

After that it was all downhill.
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that is why the republicans cheat


they cant actually win elections in an unaltered Democracy
 
Stretch said:
The greatest single reason for the destruction of a society is the breakdown of the family. A traditional family unit is a microcosm of the larger vision of a society. Each member of the family has specific functions and duties so that there is order and cohesion. It's the foundation and once the foundation crumbles, so goes the whole house.
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When the government began taking the place of the father figure is when the breakdown of the family started. When 41/100 babies born today are born bastard children and the taxpayers are forced to support those the single parent can't support yet chose to have, it shouldn't surprise anyone that things break down.
 
We don't live in a democracy. A lynch mob is a democracy. I think it was Franklin who said that democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
 
Nordberg said:
This is as old as man. Every generation thinks things are getting worse. The only significant difference is the right and the plutocrats are after the press. They see a free press as a threat to be extinguished. That is a real fundamental fear.
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The left sees personal responsibility as a threat that needs to be extinguished. They fear having to do for themselves so they automatically, without a 2nd thought, demand the government force someone they believe has too much to provide for that that do little to nothing for themselves. I'd let you starve is you were able to work and didn't provide for yourself.
 
When did our society start to decay? What happened?

I'm not sure anyone, right or left, can argue we are at a terrible decayed point in our society.
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Nope, I don't buy the premise of "the good old days", that elderly tea-bagging conservatives in rocking chairs always jabber on about.


80 years ago, women could not vote and were treated as second class citizens.

50 years ago, we had Jim Crow, blacks were still being strung up in trees, white male hegemony was entrenched, and even the remote concept of equality was inconceivable.

30 years ago, gay people were treated as if they were mentally ill, and discrimination against them was not only perfectly acceptable, but widespread.

15 years ago, the concept of gay marriage, gay adoption of children, or equal rights for the LBGT community seemed a distant prospect.

10 years ago, marijuana was not legal, and people with chronic pain or health conditions that needed it were treated like criminals.




I would really like to know when exactly this alleged "golden age" of America was, when all its citizens were treaty equally, treated with dignity, and afforded full protection from discrimination, harassment, and persecution.
 
Stretch said:
The greatest single reason for the destruction of a society is the breakdown of the family. A traditional family unit is a microcosm of the larger vision of a society. Each member of the family has specific functions and duties so that there is order and cohesion. It's the foundation and once the foundation crumbles, so goes the whole house.
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good point.....when people stopped raising their children, they had go get villages to do it for them......
 
Phantasmal said:
That’s just a load of bull. I know kids raised in a traditional family that are worthless, while other children raised in single patent, gay or grand parent raised kids are exemplary. It depends if the child was loved and the values instilled.
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so, if there is a bad kid we can know their parents didn't love them?......BucKKKleon's parents were evil.......
 
It's the INTERNET ... Everyone is a Bad Ass at the Keyboard ... until they get invited out for some Show-Me-Time :cool:
 
Cypress said:
Nope, I don't buy the premise of "the good old days", that elderly tea-bagging conservatives in rocking chairs always jabber on about.


80 years ago, women could not vote and were treated as second class citizens.

50 years ago, we had Jim Crow, blacks were still being strung up in trees, white male hegemony was entrenched, and even the remote concept of equality was inconceivable.

30 years ago, gay people were treated as if they were mentally ill, and discrimination against them was not only perfectly acceptable, but widespread.

15 years ago, the concept of gay marriage, gay adoption of children, or equal rights for the LBGT community seemed a distant prospect.

10 years ago, marijuana was not legal, and people with chronic pain or health conditions that needed it were treated like criminals.




I would really like to know when exactly this alleged "golden age" of America was, when all its citizens were treaty equally, treated with dignity, and afforded full protection from discrimination, harassment, and persecution.
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.... all they do is Bitch Bitch Bitch :awesome:
 
Irish said:
I'm not sure anyone, right or left, can argue we are at a terrible decayed point in our society.

Just the other day my niece and nephew who are fostered by my brother had to visit their drug addicted mother. She is incapable of raising a field mouse, but has 3 other kids she raises. She can barely function from opioid addiction, yet govt gives her 1200 a month in SSI payments. So she can fund her drug habit. Yup! YOur tax money hard at work.


Anyway, my niece brings friends over from time to time, and nearly all of them come from "mixed" "blended" families. IE not married parents, half siblings, step siblings. 2-3 different dads, different moms etc. Keep in mind this is a generally affluent area.

The situation is much worse in minority families. Blacks have 75% out of wedlock birth rate. High abortion rates.

So what happened? We went from nearly everyone coming from a nuclear family, to the family being completely destroyed.

It started happening after the 1960s. After Johnson passed the "great society" unfettered welfare act. This gave people, mothers a new option. Don't get married, have as many kids as you wish, and govt will raise and pay for them. It's been a complete and utter disaster. The family is dead. Our society is dead, and this is completely unsustainable.

Yet SJW, Libtards, BLM are worried about what bathrooms trans can go in. Cops doing their jobs, etc. Not a word on family or societal decay that is causing MASSIVE disorder, crime, death, etc.

ALso, most active shooters come from fatherless homes and broken families. Maybe a refocus on this issue would stop gun violence? Rather than more govt intervention.
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There's nothing particularly wrong with kids coming from 'blended' families.

Lashing out because you don't know who your father was isn't going to solve anything, sugartits.
 
Stretch said:
The greatest single reason for the destruction of a society is the breakdown of the family. A traditional family unit is a microcosm of the larger vision of a society. Each member of the family has specific functions and duties so that there is order and cohesion. It's the foundation and once the foundation crumbles, so goes the whole house.
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Saved me from typing.
 
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