(06-23-2024, 10:22 PM)Ninurta Wrote: So, in my opinion, Trump did not lead us here, Obama did not lead us here, Bush did not lead us here, Klinton did not lead us here, etc - we simply allowed ourselves to be pushed to the brink that we are currently perched upon. It's our own damned fault - WE did this. Even Biden did not lead us here - he's just the current, inept, monster in the closet. All of those regimes are simply symptoms, neither the illness nor the cure. They are only manifestations of who we want to tell us how to act - whether we want Right Wing Authoritarians or Left Wing Authoritarians to direct, order, and micromanage our own lives for us.
If that were not so, we would have all violently revolted by now.
Society needs very few rules to function properly, and all of those rules involve keeping your hands to yourself, leaving other folks alone to do as they wish, and not doing unnecessary and unwarranted harm to other folks. Don't murder, don't steal, don't tell other folks what to do unasked, don't needlessly wring their noses until the blood flows. That's really the essence of it, something I think we all learned in kindergarten, yet here we are, with everyone trying to make rules or laws to control everyone else and micromanage the lives of others based on one's own personal preferences.
Shame on us all. That's never gonna work, no matter which end of the political spectrum it comes from.
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We are masters of passing the buck, blaming others, and coming up with excuses.
The dying generation is experiencing dementia in multiple forms or we just have selective memory.
I see traces of Alice in Wonderland, along with a ton of other books and movies playing out in this world.
Not sure if it is art imitating life or life imitating art.
One thing that seems to be consistent, is that we are constantly waiting for the knight in shining armor, that is never going to come.
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