Yeah I agree with you. Not a whole lot of planning involved. The planning that does occur is based more on the mother's career than the climate.The NYC birth rates explode 9 months after blackouts !
Yeah I agree with you. Not a whole lot of planning involved. The planning that does occur is based more on the mother's career than the climate.The NYC birth rates explode 9 months after blackouts !
Colleges campus around the USA were either shut down or barricaded in protest of the war in Viet Nam !More bullshit right now than I can remember during my lifetime following American politics.
Fear mongering, slander, hyper-hyperbole, etc. Stay classy, Illini fans.
No matter who wins, life on earth will continue.
The political class is living in the past. An October surprise won’t determine the outcome. There are very few undecided voters and early voting has began. Enthusiasm (positive and negative) will tip the scales in the battleground states.
This is false. In the 1970s and 1980s, there was ideological diversity in both parties (liberal Republicans and Conservative Democrats). The 2 parties were much more similar then they are today. That is why there much less rancor back then.It’s just that the BS is exposed now
Birth rates today are correlated with a country's development. Developed nations have lower birth rates and less developed countries have higher birth rates.It has a lot more to do with the climate change hoax than it does covid. Articles can easily be found that young couples are afraid to have children out of fear the global catastrophies predicted come true. Fear has been fed to them from when they were young.
It has a lot more to do with the climate change hoax than it does covid. Articles can easily be found that young couples are afraid to have children out of fear the global catastrophies predicted come true. Fear has been fed to them from when they were young.
It's really remarkable. I keep asking myself if I was just incredibly naive back in the 80s and 90s. It's surreal.
US birth rate declineAbout 2/3 of young adults in Australia have “climate anxiety”
Social media is not the major reason.Didn’t have social media back then.
And only one 24 hour news network.Didn’t have social media back then.
What polls are those? I see something different.2/3 of Americans support mass deportations. Since 2015 the percentage of non-white voters who are in favor of mass deportations has gone up 24 points. What was 33% in 2015 is now 57%. 57% of non-whites want illegals deported.
Oh, hey. BTW. Latest polling data has Trump +2 nationally over Harris. Best numbers he has had since Biden dropped out.
Jeff said textiles wouldn’t come back. Welp. Here’s a jeans manufacturer doing just that in the US.
Social media is not the major reason.
The polarization in today’s Congress has roots that go back decades
On average, Democrats and Republicans are farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years.www.pewresearch.org
The parties were more similar in the 1970s than today. In particular, Republicans have moved much more to the right.
Per Pew Research, Republicans have moved more to the right in the last 20 years than Democrats to the left.Going back 50 years is irrelevant. That was the era of the eastern establishment that dominated American politics. It’s long gone.
The ideological shifts impacting today’s politics and political discourse began in earnest in the post Clinton era. Democrats have shifted further to the left over that period of time than Republicans have to the right. Reagan Democrats are now Republicans. Neo conservatives are now Democrats.
What’s probably more significant than ideological shifts is the new coalitions of voters who have emerged. Which is why politicians tend to take a divide and conquer approach, and why people can’t talk to each other like civilized human beings.
Social media may not be THE reason people hate each other and every aspect of American life is politicized, but it’s a major reason.
Other reasons: The catastrophic failure of our public education system; urbanization; competing interests (i.e. environmentalism vs energy industry jobs); competition and corruption in the mass media; political incentives that reward polarization; lack of social and economic mobility in the U.S. over the last 4 decades.
Biggest reason of all…stupid people.
Per Pew Research, Republicans have moved more to the right in the last 20 years than Democrats to the left.
He should see a shrink !
That's true, and is a whole other can of worms. As are the behaviors of the unelected and permanent bureaucracies within the federal government.Didn’t have social media back then.
The houtis are attacking merchant shipping . That is a problemUS B-2 attack and bomb Yemen Houti's !
More US Troops at risk in the Biden mid-east war zone !
Reminds me of the Catalina Wine MixerAh, Stonedax received his info from edited videos from the KamalaHQ. His camp lies to him a lot 🤣. Oh, the irony
This is Pew Research. What you claim is false. I already posted this in this very thread.Per Pew Research, Republicans have moved more to the right in the last 20 years than Democrats to the left.
I agree that there are very significant shifts in the demographic coalitions of each party.
I have been a Republican all my life but with the Republican party becoming a nativist populist party I am moving more toward the Democratic party as are some of my suburbanite neighbors. Although, I don't see how this should create greater anger between people. I cannot stand Trump but I am friends with Trump voters.
I do agree social media adds gasoline to the fire.
One thing that is different from the 70's and 80's that hasn't been mentioned is C-Span. Has it actually done any good? What I see is more grandstanding by politicians now than real substance of transparency to the electorate.One thing I would add. There is a minority group of extremists from both parties serving in government. That group has an inordinate amount of influence because of House / Senate rules, they get nearly all of the media attention, and they are relentless self promoters who are motivated only by personal ambition. People who only pay attention to the nightly news tend to define the parties based on that group of nuts. Other politicians are afraid of them.
My unscientific opinion is that the Dems under Biden basically became AOC: Green New Deal, open borders, college loan handouts, continued anti-police restrictions, LBGTQ+ everywhere, DEI everywhere, pack the courts with left wing justices, etc. That is far left, so if the Pew research only goes thru 2017, they are missing a further shift left. The main contention between AOC and the Biden administration is Israel and if Harris is elected they probably will pivot to an AOC position on that as well.This is Pew Research. What you claim is false. I already posted this in this very thread.
Obama moved the party much further left. And yes. You are correct. Not knowing the results past 2017, they have moved even further to the left, which is why I won't vote for any of them. The natural reaction is to get a bunch of Republicans voted in whether you like them all or not, in order to play tug of war to get the Dems to intelligently move back towards the center.My unscientific opinion is that the Dems under Biden basically became AOC: Green New Deal, open borders, college loan handouts, continued anti-police restrictions, LBGTQ+ everywhere, DEI everywhere, pack the courts with left wing justices, etc. That is far left, so if the Pew research only goes thru 2017, they are missing a further shift left. The main contention between AOC and the Biden administration is Israel and if Harris is elected they probably will pivot to an AOC position on that as well.
Israel needs to keep their foot on the gas. They are doing a pretty good job.Yahya Sinwar's killing has left Hamas in disarray
Almost exactly a year after Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel, its leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed. This is not the end of Hamas, but it does offer Israel an opportunity to destabilise and fragment the group, similar to what Israel has done to Hezbollah — to cut the Islamists down to a more...unherd.com
Good post. I would add that when Obama was left completely unchecked by the media(in regards to IRS/ spying, etc), it created a bigger problem. The Biden administration was emboldened to openly weaponize the government against people it disagrees with. Now the Harris campaign accuses a future Trump admin of doing this. Crazy times.Obama moved the party much further left. And yes. You are correct. Not knowing the results past 2017, they have moved even further to the left, which is why I won't vote for any of them. The natural reaction is to get a bunch of Republicans voted in whether you like them all or not, in order to play tug of war to get the Dems to intelligently move back towards the center.
I think he would need to be born in the US which he was not. I am guessing he has bigger fish to fry in the engineer space. Also, I believe he was largely dragged into his current involvement in this arena from the threat of prosecution from the dems.I may not live long enough to see it but I wouldn't be surprised to see Elon Musk as the Republican candidate at some point. The Republicans need to reinvent themselves as more pragmatic and less ideological as they lose millions of supporters every year through "attrition". It would be hard for any regular politician to pull this off but he seems like the alpha that could do it. I have no idea what he stands for on each issue but his stance on free speech is a good start. The political processes of even 20 years ago are antiquated in this era of social media so Musk, even as soon as 2028 could happen.
How gullible or indoctrinated in the cult you guys are to believe that. I have seen him sway and do the jerk dance a couple of dozen times all over the internet and legitimate news on television. Pathetic.Ah, Stonedax received his info from edited videos from the KamalaHQ. His camp lies to him a lot 🤣. Oh, the irony