Would a real war against a real enemy nation provide perspective?
Are we polarized because we lack an existential threat?
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Yep. It's the leftists who are totally the Nihilists. The right-wingers are not at all nihilistic. Not at all.
That must be exhausting.
We're polarized because half the population have been brainwashed by universities and the media into being posthuman nihilists.No, you're wrong. Read Ideas Have Consequences.
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We're polarized because the country has been undergoing drastic demographic change but is still at the point where it makes short term strategic sense for the GOP to stoke white nationalism rather than figure out how to compete in the very different America that has been ineluctably emerging.
Within ten years, it will be effectively impossible for the GOP to win national elections with this strategy, so they'll either painfully adapt, gradually reducing polarization, or destroy democracy.
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Think about how sad this is: the American experiment has been about a center right government. You argue because of third world immigrants, that is no longer going to be possible. As a third world immigrant myself, I find that both sad and a tad insane that the country allowed that to happen. Not all third world immigrants would have lead to this. Vast amounts of low skilled immigration does.
How about this: let’s take in immigrants whose children will not need affirmative action.
We're polarized because the country has been undergoing drastic demographic change but is still at the point where it makes short term strategic sense for the GOP to stoke white nationalism rather than figure out how to compete in the very different America that has been ineluctably emerging.
Within ten years, it will be effectively impossible for the GOP to win national elections with this strategy, so they'll either painfully adapt, gradually reducing polarization, or destroy democracy. -
We're polarized because the country has been undergoing drastic demographic change but is still at the point where it makes short term strategic sense for the GOP to stoke white nationalism rather than figure out how to compete in the very different America that has been ineluctably emerging.
Within ten years, it will be effectively impossible for the GOP to win national elections with this strategy, so they'll either painfully adapt, gradually reducing polarization, or destroy democracy.The process you're describing is a looting operation - not exactly a great foundation for the social democracy you're envisioning.