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    Does this mean I have to stock up on toilet paper again?

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    I'm opinionated, so I'll refrain from comment, other than to say this: Talk to your children.
    They are the future.

    Mine (aged 19-28) are pretty squared away. They value education, they have a pretty good
    work ethic, they care for each other, and they are reasonably well informed.

    We certainly don't always agree with each other, but we do share a concern for the health of
    our environment, for the value of human life, and they do have a pretty solid commitment to
    fairness as a political ideal.

    We sometimes get tangled up with our different takes on current events, but I respect that, on the whole,
    their hearts are in the right place. So, since they represent the future, I look to them for a vision.

    As I recall my own youthful idealism, hopes, and attitudes...and compare them to our present circumstances...
    it's abundantly clear that things don't always work out the way we envisioned. But we're still here, we still care,
    and we still hope for the best.
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    Where are we headed ???? Hmmm, frankly I never expected to be where we are today. The technology revolution has had far more consequences than most people expected.
    Future? .... your guess is as good as mine.
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    Nobody changes anybodies mind. That is certain. The media sucks! They can look at a 50 acre plot of beautiful green grass. And focus on the one dandelion. Zoom in and WOW! That lawn is full of weeds! Look at it! People perception of things is more than the actual result. Fear sells. Lot of clickbait out there. I was born in '65. We never had "snowpocalypse" we had snow storms. We never had polar vortex, they said it was cold. Everything is sensationalized, Back in the day you got your news at 5 or 6 oclock and it was a half hour. Today its 24/7/365.

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    I see the future, and it don’t involve me once I’m dead, so let get all apocalyptic, I only wish I can be there when the terminator comes around, then I can ask him where he got the cool sunglasses
    “ I,m getting the impression that everyone thinks I have TIME to fix their bikes”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill31521 View Post
    Nobody changes anybodies mind. That is certain. The media sucks! They can look at a 50 acre plot of beautiful green grass. And focus on the one dandelion. Zoom in and WOW! That lawn is full of weeds! Look at it! People perception of things is more than the actual result. Fear sells. Lot of clickbait out there. I was born in '65. We never had "snowpocalypse" we had snow storms. We never had polar vortex, they said it was cold. Everything is sensationalized, Back in the day you got your news at 5 or 6 oclock and it was a half hour. Today its 24/7/365.
    Well, I was born in 48 and we didn't even have a TV then. By the time I was 3 or so and we had one and the news was 15 minutes. Folks got their news from newspapers. T.V was a fad to a lot of people and many didn't think it would be around long. Most watched the news to see the pretty weathergirl at the end.

    Like with anything they invent someone always finds a way to muck it up and find some evil use for it.
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    I think the media drives sensationalism, decisiveness, and tries to push an ultra liberal agenda down everyone’s throat.

    I believe most people are moderates and just want what’s best.

    Politicians are decried for being moderate and do not want to work for the good of the country, they are working for the special interest groups that fund them.

    My 2 cents…
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    If y'all want a good read as to what has been in play for many years now. Take a look at George Lincoln Rockwell's book. "White Power"

    These are facts that can actually be looked up, and be proven true. You'll see how all this has ended up the way it is, now.

    I read it out of interest, not because I'm racist, or such. But I did find it truthful for the most parts, and that its actually still happening, today.

    I believe America will see a time of civil war, in sometime soon, if things keep going the way they are.

    This is a feeling I've had in my guts, since I was in my younger teens. And I've seen much unfold, that pushes us further into division, since.

    Once we see the divided states of America, were done.

    E Pluribus Unum, or fall.
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    Never in my life would I have thought the US would be on the brink of a second Civil War. Sadly, that was yesterday and today I am not at all sure. I have never seen the US so apparently widely and deeply divided on so many subjects. I only hope the US can and will step back from the precipice as not being able to do so will have dire consequences not only for it's citizens but globally also. I do not want to see the experiment begun in 1776 fail in such a manner.

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    Coming Storm ?? Civil war??

    That's funny, It started Jan 20th 2009 and has been building faster and faster,, the ground work might have been laid for years but the fuse was lit that day..
    We have "Irreconcilable Differences" that are quite glaring, I do see a divorce in the future, I think it will be bad, but not bloody.
    Those differences are never so stark as two killings over the last year
    George Floyd and Ashli Babbit if you are not equally outraged or unconcerned by them both, you might not see what is coming...

    The only thing that has prevented it up until today, was the very idea that the USA was a Nation of Laws, and that the Constitution / BoR were the binding documents.. That has changed and we all know it, we can see it, and taste it..

    Close to home we see the Eastern parts of Oregon and Washington state wanting to join Idaho and form the "State of Liberty" Idaho isn't really on board.. These two states truly are the epitome of the term "Unequally Yoked" both states are ruled by 2-3 western counties that don't share the same values as the rest of the state.
    This isn't so far fetched either, states have split in the past over fundamental differences, as long as all agree to the divorce why not. It really isn't so much about political party as it is about Urban vs Rural with the Suburbanites splitting the difference

    Many of us have voted with our feet for years, I did, many of you probably did too..

    Civil War not so much, a Bad Breakup ?? Yep see that coming
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