(08-02-2021, 07:43 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: Six months in office and Joe’s got:

- Covid back in full force (says CDC)

- mass number of migrants crossing the border — most ever

- inflation. highest in 30 years.

- lower-than-expected economic growth

- the WORST polling VP in history (#Kamala)

But hey, it’s not the bad orange man!!!

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(07-29-2021, 05:08 PM)mikesez Wrote: Society is measurably more divided now than anytime I have been alive.
There were always sharp disagreements, and always condemnations from one side to another, but the number of people who have such sharp disagreements keeps growing.
The most striking measurement, to me, is how the number of people who would accept if their child married outside of the parents preferred political party keeps going down. All other kinds of acceptance are going up. People are more tolerant of racial differences, people are more tolerant of homosexuality, people are more tolerant of other nationalities and religions. But not political differences. "Son, I'll still love you if you marry a man, but he better not be a republican!"

I 100% agree with the first sentence. 

As far as toleration goes, are we really that more tolerable? Or is every little niche in our society getting shoved so far down our throats  that if we don’t agree with it we are labeled racist, homophobic, etc..?   I don’t agree with most of what’s going on, but I’m also not dumb enough to go out in public and try to fight the [BLEEP].  I’m not on social media whatsoever.  If I was and voiced my opinions I’d probably be on the news.

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