a house divided upon itself cannot stand

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I gotta know something- how can America survive long-term as a unified republic under one flag, when nobody can even agree on what the problems are or that there are even problems in the first place? thoughts, please

Just spitballing - maybe it can't. The Roman empire fell under similar circumstances, IIRC.

listening to "coast to coast" is giving me a pretty grim view of America's future. seems too few [not a critical mass] care enough to wanna fix our nation's problems, they just keep saying "mañana" and whistling past the graveyard.

I figure our nation's problems are centered around the Washington DC area. Unfortunately there are far too many people willing to hand power over to charismatic sociopaths (on both sides of the aisle), or conflate blind obedience to proper procedure with morality, while evil people continually twist said procedure to their own ends. I don't think the nation can be salvaged, and frankly I don't think the people who allow this to continue are really worth saving. So, being just one person who cannot change this, I find it's helpful to divert my attention to other affairs

you're a stronger person than me. the worst thing is seeing America fall amidst the ascension of other nations.

I'd like for our problems to be fixed. But I have no power, and nobody cares what I think.

And I think both major political parties are too extreme, and too many regular people have extremist viewpoints. It seems nobody has any common sense, and everyone wants to argue and has to be right about everything.

People don't seem to want to work out differences in a civil and respectful manner; they seem to want to be hateful and make generalizations about other groups without attempting to understand.

And I mean this about people in this country in general. Not just certain demographics. I see it everywhere. It's very disheartening. It makes me not want to even bother trying.

I suspect that despite the failure of our lamestream media to report this, the intelligentsia are oozing out of this nation towards safer shores, they've been quietly doing this for a while, the handwriting is on the wall and the devil take the hindmost.

I sense someone trying to gaslight me into believing I said I'd buy an @#$% ice cream. But I can't have said so, because I didn't know that flavor.

Over the next couple of decades Conservatism will likely die out in the US due to several significant demographic changes - decreased religiosity and a greater Latino and Asian share of the population being the most important.

Conservatives may be able to hang on in the House of Representatives for quite some time due to gerrymandering, but the Presidency and the Senate are both immune to such shenanigans and will adjust themselves to the new demographic reality much more quickly.

As such, the major fault line in US politics - the Liberal/Conservative divide and the political polarization it has created - is a temporary phenomenon largely created by the fallout from the 1964 US presidential election.

As such - despite the FUBAR state of current US politics - I am not overly pessimistic about the long-run trajectory of the US. All that's needed is a little...

it can't happen soon enough

But Donald is a doubleplusgood ducktalker.

When I saw the topic of the thread I thought it was about the Autism "community".

Your last line got me thinking...