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Must have been lovely for your parents, growing up in The Shire and relaxing with a pint every evening at The Green Dragon.
Except for the employment picture. The con these days is as likely to be employed as the lib.
Maybe that was the case in rural areas, but people living in more populated areas locked their doors.
But (and now playing Devil's Advocate to my own argument), despite there being many things on which all reasonable people would agree, there are some aspects of life today which I think represent moral progress to which others will always disagree. Freedom from hunger v I don't want to pay for that. Freedom of speech v I don't want them saying that. Freedom of movement v I don't want them living here. Freedom of choice v I don't want those people to get married.
Well, I'm not being snide, but I can chew gum and pass gas at the same time.
But the liberal media controls the narrative. Even though CNN and MSNBC aren't doing that great, the local news still just chimes what they say or they repeat the headlines of the Washington Post or the New York Times. In all these news outlets, you get doom and gloom. Like someone posted here, these news outlets had the economy great under Biden. I liked some of the stuff Obama did as did the news outlets. In their eyes, he did nothing wrong. It was those "wicked" Republicans who were causing all the problems,
It's like the old Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. I guess it's lucky that we can turn off at times and look from the outside in like an interested observer.
At the cutting edge of moral evolution theres always resistance. Look how hard it was to end slavery in the USA. Or to let women vote. If a particular change is actually a wise move, people will mostly come around over time.
It is good to remember all of the things that have improved. Some people only see the shortcomings and pretend that positive change never happens. The reparation arguments always drive me crazy, along with spreading the blame throughout generations and races. I once had a man tell me that my race was responsible for slavery, but my ancestors were busy farming in Poland and had nothing to do with it. Maybe, the Italians should give Poles reparations for the Romans enslaving my people. It gets ridiculous. We should remember history and try not to repeat the mistakes, but blame the people that were there at that time and place.
Let the record reflect, and let it be duly noted, that Bradskii thinks 9/11 was "cool". smh smh smh
Most of the reparations arguments I hear dont blame this ethnicity or that. They blame the USA as a nation - a collective we are all part of as citizens, which endures beyond the lifetime of any particular person.
They are all dead. Those who live there now inherited this collective situation called the USA, or chose to move into it.
I don't know if it was like this for you but during the Biden Administration I was joking with my wife that I was tired only seeing all these bubbly news stories on our local news all the time (this is when the economy here was crazily inflated). I told my wife, "Where is the news news (no real "top of the hour" headlines)?" Now, a full 50 minutes of the news hour is doom and gloom. Trump has gotten us into some undesirable situations but come on, at least give the viewer 20 mins of uplifting news (because you know it is out there).
