We're WEIRD. Get over it.

[Classic-Xer]

(10-06-2020, 05:06 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(10-06-2020, 04:48 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(10-06-2020, 01:16 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(10-06-2020, 12:55 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: What rights of yours are being denied? You're free to speak, free to vote, free to make a living, free to defend yourself and free to own a firearm too. The only dictators that I see are on the Democratic side these days. You better start learning to play by the rules and you better start placing a higher value on the rule of law as well. You see, if we end up at war with each other, there will be no protections for you or any of your politicians and we will be free to directly engage and eliminate all of you. Dude, the only world you know is the world that we represent today. You don't know anything about living in a world like Somalia or war torn Spain or the old Soviet Union or Nazi Germany or old Russia but you're going to find out soon enough if you so choose and opt to continue on the same destructive path that you're on right now.

Come the crisis, the progressives want to solve the most pressing problems facing the culture, but the conservatives think to leave the problems be.  History suggests the problems get solved.  That is how America progresses.  Today, the two problems bubbling to the top are COVID and racial violent policing.  Global Warming made the Democratic platform, but we'll see how much effort is truly applied.  As usual, the conservative faction is dragging their feet.  It will be real easy to make them look bad when the history books are written.

I am really curious as to what will happen with the Trump loyalists, the elite servitors and the true conservatives fight over the remnants of the Republican Party.

In a way, I hope the Democrats win in November because that would mark the end of the Democratic party vs prolonging it's inevitable demise. Yep, the conservative factions are dragging their feet with COVID19 and refusing to  open up economies and government related institutions and so forth. BTW, Global Warming has never been viewed by most as  a pressing issue. The Progressives are actually the ones who are in all out preservation mode right now. I'm curious to see how it plays out for the Democrats as well. I mean, the Democratic population is at much greater risk than the Republican population at this point.

I suppose death by environmental collapse is slower than death by an inept effort by the government to reduce COVID or a death at the hands of racial violent police.  Can you anticipate your place in the history books yet?

It's to bad we can't just snap our fingers and make COVID go away. I don't see myself as having a place in the history books. The unsung heroes are the ones who do their jobs and prefer to remain anonymous.