"Anti-Nationalist Civics"....What?

[Eric the Green]

(07-14-2022, 09:24 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

Quote:I am satisfied that it will be one or the other, with anyone still connected to the 'wrong' model being damned to poverty, harassment, shame, and even imprisonment. You all know where I stand on that one, with Obama-like behavior solving more problems than it creates and Trumpism as a means to ruin of America in multiple ways.

In a nutshell, this is why I hate millennials more than boomers. The aggressive censorship we're seeing is hardly a first for a generation heavy on peer pressure, ruthless ostracism and enforcing conformity. Boomers probably haven't noticed this until recently, because, during the 80s, 90s and early 2000s we were just kiddos, and this behavior went overlooked because it had little real impact on the adult world of economics and politics. Keep in mind millennials are nowhere close to the height of their power, and the last hero generation is what brought us McCarthyism, and that paranoid, anti-individualistic culture that led to the Boom Awakening.

Put simply...millennials don't like freedom. They are attracted to concepts like LGBT culture because they value acceptance and chafe at the prospect of being judged by their peers, when in practice, they're more prudish and never really cared all that much about the individualism, self-expression or genuine sexuality that the sexual revolution was supposed to represent (you can tell it by the way they dress. It's basically been en vogue to dress deliberately ugly for about 10 years now).

I don't know what "censorship" you refer to. I of course endorse p.brower's statement. I can't form an opinion on how millennials dress. I don't see much originality there; they have simply adopted an amalgam of previous styles. Same in music; previous pop styles continue, but essentially and generally have become more superficial and commercial. I am unaware of most current and recent movies and TV shows.

That nation crumbles which does not progress. What is progress? We have made much in our history. Our Supreme Court currently wants to return us to 1789, before any progress occurred beyond our initial foundations. Back then, only white male land-owners were full citizens. Women could not even own property. Not only were black people often enslaved, but many white people had slaves. This was an abomination, and because the perennially-backward portion of our nation wanted to protect their investment in slavery, a civil war was fought. Since then over time more and more of us became full citizens. The working class gained rights too, as industry expanded. We gained factory regulations, anti-trust laws, social security and labor rights, medicare and obamacare. Our society is not the agrarian aristocracy of 1789. Enumerated rights in the Constitution are not adequate today. Libertarians are spreading delusion. Neoliberalism is false ideology.

We have been regressing for so long, for 41 years now, that we are in danger of not being able to make progress anymore. If this happens, our nation will crumble. Is that what you want?