To all American Escapists/anyone currently living in America.
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No, because these issues are intentionally left to stagnate. They serve as useful fodder for election season. You could, for instance, add video games and video game violence/sexuality to that list.DarkxReaper56 said:
That said, the trending in the data indicates that the issues might be closed generations from now. I.e. my generation which is just now voting age has less of a problem with abortion, weed and gay pride as generation X did, and gen X had less of a problem than the baby boomers did, and the baby boomers have less of a problem then their parents did.
Etc.
Three's right.Yureina said:I believe she said that if it was two people, not three.Mcoffey said:
I do agree with you though. :3
And yes, all those arguments will end, eventually, only to be replaced, like the hydra of old.
And then the old arguments will come back, like threads being necro'd of present.
No they will not. Even after being legalized or banned, there will still be people arguing about their existence and the debate will continue.
Well... Segregation and Jim Crow laws were made illegal, and women were given the the same rights as men so... Yes, it is possible. If it is probably, on the other hand, is another story entirely...
When your politicians cannot have discourse without aggressive rhetoric, and as long as there are still bigots, reactionaries, radicals, and the like, there will never be an end to the debate.
And lets just face it, the sad part is that our nation is getting so polarized that I can't stand either political party anymore. The more stress there is the deeper they seem to plumb into the tubs of batshit crazy both own. I don't believe that we have any right to deny other people rights based on their gender, sexual orientation, or choice of entertainment, but apparently (according to both groups) either:
a) "We can't just allow people to say/do inflamatory things, so the government must protect my feelings and stop them being offensive/maybe hurting me, because I am a COLOSSAL WIMP."
or
b) "Ever since (insert group here) messed up our country, all this immorality has been occuring. Therefor we hafta harass those groups out of existence because we can't empathize with them because we are COLOSSAL BASTARDS."
So, honestly, if this country wasn't such a nice place to live, fuck the place. Our government is paralyzed by all it's own rules, and the absolutely ridiculous system the Senate has been using to forestall debate and decision is stupid beyond belief. I hope it gets sane by the time I'm able to vote, or else I might just tell the government to go fuck itself.
And lets just face it, the sad part is that our nation is getting so polarized that I can't stand either political party anymore. The more stress there is the deeper they seem to plumb into the tubs of batshit crazy both own. I don't believe that we have any right to deny other people rights based on their gender, sexual orientation, or choice of entertainment, but apparently (according to both groups) either:
a) "We can't just allow people to say/do inflamatory things, so the government must protect my feelings and stop them being offensive/maybe hurting me, because I am a COLOSSAL WIMP."
or
b) "Ever since (insert group here) messed up our country, all this immorality has been occuring. Therefor we hafta harass those groups out of existence because we can't empathize with them because we are COLOSSAL BASTARDS."
So, honestly, if this country wasn't such a nice place to live, fuck the place. Our government is paralyzed by all it's own rules, and the absolutely ridiculous system the Senate has been using to forestall debate and decision is stupid beyond belief. I hope it gets sane by the time I'm able to vote, or else I might just tell the government to go fuck itself.
All debates/controversies either:DarkxReaper56 said:
-Get resolved.
-Fizzle out because its no longer relevant and the generation that cared about it died.
-Both of the above.
Eventually, people will no longer care about the issues(and many more) that you've posted above.
All of those things will be resolved when democrats and republicans are no longer at each others throats, which is about as likely to happen as Assassins and Templars becoming friends in the assassin's creed games.
Six. Six different opinions.Mcoffey said:
Anyway OP: I think eventually. Perhaps not within the next ten years, but eventually these will come to a close. Especially when the zombie robot overlords take-over. We'll have better things to discuss.
I think that marijuana will become legal soon so the government can tax it, but the other two I am not sure about.
We Americans will argue about anything for any reason. There is no rationality to it at all. it's just the way we are. Even after an issue is resolved, there will be an argument about the way it was fixed, rather than the issue itself.
america will figure all this out eventually. The reason it doesn't happen now is because there is always some looming problem to tackle first. presidents get maybe one domestic issue resolved per administration, and they will run their campaign on it, if it doesn't have enough support it won't happen. Same sex marriage, abortion, marijuana legality, these things don't have enough support one way or the other to swing a vote. until they do you won't see them get resolved.
IF china becomes a superpower and takes on a bigger role in policing the world america might find itself forced to look at domestic issues harder and then we might see some real progress.
IF china becomes a superpower and takes on a bigger role in policing the world america might find itself forced to look at domestic issues harder and then we might see some real progress.
No, because nobody actually intends to do anything with them.
By the way you can add "prayer in schools" to that list.
Nothing about any of them will ever actually be done, they're just common issues some people identify with, so politicians can take a stance on them in order to automatically get support from certain people. It's been around for longer than I have.
By the way you can add "prayer in schools" to that list.
Nothing about any of them will ever actually be done, they're just common issues some people identify with, so politicians can take a stance on them in order to automatically get support from certain people. It's been around for longer than I have.
what IF more like WHEN China becomes a superpowerrayen020 said:
but if you think about it countries do generally become less crazed when they no longer rule the world, just look at England we used to Empire crazed now we stagnate quietly and aren't too polarised