(10-04-2017, 10:38 AM)beechnut79 Wrote:(10-04-2017, 10:27 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:One thing we have collectively become very good at is controlling our emotions while chasing our ambitions. While it can seem like an arduous task, our career ambitions individually have become top dog, especially since our emotional selves appear to be for the most part hidden. And, BTW, research has shown that Millennials are having less sex than did their parents and grandparents. Any connection?(10-02-2017, 05:52 PM)Bronsin Wrote:(02-03-2017, 12:54 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: This is what Republicans do. They uphold corruption. They do everything wrong. They need to be stopped; period.Just keep banging that gong. Maybe someday someone will hear it.
Donald Trump is the malignant tumor that will most likely be excised on January 20, 2021. That tumor is not the cancer, namely a plutocratic trend that began to root itself in America when Ronald Reagan became President.
Republicans so far seem good at ensuring that Democrats fail, and at entrenching themselves slowly with salami tactics.
Losing optimism in the American Dream. As America goes from being a democracy to being a Marcos-like kleptocracy, one can expect such. Politicians like Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell (let alone such extreme outliers as Roy Moore) represent the antithesis of Millennial interests. I expect this generation to be just short of being as sympathetic to the irrationalism so much a part of American politics as the French equivalents of America's chilly Republican rationalists were to the Bourbon monarchy and its hangers-on. There might be no guillotine, though.
Sure, everyone dreams of going heavily in debt for education for a good job, only to find that unless one has the right college major that one will get something once relegated to high-school graduates or even dropouts, and that even if one gets a well-paying job one gets gouged for high rent in a tiny apartment. [/snark] If high rents are 'progress', then I (as a Boomer) can understand that some progress is not worth it.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.