https://newrepublic.com/article/135268/r...ves-matter

Quote:Despite his history of inflammatory, racist rhetoric, there are times when Donald Trump can be circumspect. This election cycle, he’s focused most of his bigotry on immigrants, whether the undocumented from Mexico or Muslims from the Middle East (or judges from Indiana). He’s been a bit more careful in how he treats African-Americans—not tolerant, exactly, but also not calling for a wall around Chicago either...



https://newrepublic.com/article/135268/r...ves-matter

http://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/201...4c26421736

Quote:Over the past few years, co-working has made headlines for turning the workplace on its head. In recent weeks, its lesser known counterpart—co-living—has gotten its first big media rollout. These overlapping trends represent a cultural shift away from traditional work and home environments. What is fueling their growth? Generational change. These community-oriented, structured, and shared concepts appeal to the Millennial mindset. While co-working and co-living aren’t without their drawbacks, they will likely be around for the long haul as Millennials continue to put a new spin on the young professional lifestyle...



http://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/201...4c26421736

This is a thread where people can post Neil Howe tweets that they find interesting.

Trump isn't Nixon.


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What I don't understand is why Millennials seem to excuse groups when they make insults towards people but they don't seem to tolerate people fighting back and insulting them back. Instead we're supposed to be mature in the face of immaturity and be the better person while the other people win. If you let people get away with acting insulting towards you, then you create more of that behavior. I don't see why they think it's not worth it to argue with them. I really don't get it. It teaches them a lesson whereas walking away doesn't. In Xers it seems like they expect you to get thicker skin and tolerate it. It's like they want everyone to just brush everything off. They too don't understand the importance of teaching people lessons of respect.

All the news indicates that there has been a backlash against Melania Trump's speech. It is said to have plagiarized Michelle Obama's speech.

Like the people who don't follow the same social norms? Will they be persecuted and driven to the edges of society? It seems to be what's happening now. There seems to be this crazy emphasis on the borg mentality where everyone is supposed to be the same and nobody is supposed to have different needs or wants. However there also seems to be this hyper individualist mentality at the same time where people helping each other is frowned on. It's hell.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-...can-party/

Quote:Legend has it that after leveling Carthage in the Third Punic War, Roman army generals ordered that the city’s fields be sown with salt so that they’d lie fallow for years, Roman generals not being particularly well known for their benevolence in victory.


Many Republicans think Donald Trump’s nomination is doing roughly the same thing to their party: destroying any chance for growth it once had and leaving the GOP to wither and die on Trump vineyard vines.


“My general sense, looking at this election, is that what we’re witnessing here is the end of something much more than the beginning of something,” Yuval Levin, editor of the conservative policy journal National Affairs, told me recently...




http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-...can-party/

From what is going on at the convention, it looks like the GOP has failed to unify around Trump. As this is just the beginning of the convention, we will see what happens as time goes on. It is not looking good for the GOP though.