Where do you see America 10 years from now?

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15 Sep 2021, 9:01 am

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I guess basically what I am is neither right nor left nor really centered either.. I am just plain disillusioned with my whole country. The way I see it we are doomed in two ways: either by becoming a totalitarian state or by collapsing into anarchy.

There's no way I would survive either situation.

P.S. I live in the Bible Belt so EVERY conservative I know is a "Christian Conservative".


Ahh, that makes sense, where I grew up in the Seattle area, social conservative were a hypothetical threat, we'd read about them in the news and hear about their influence in other areas, but we never really had to deal with them locally, all of our local politics was pretty solidly liberal. What really soured me on liberalism was how many people would move here that were essentially refugees from Christian areas, that grew up with social conservatives in their business, but as soon as they moved here and had majority political power, basically turned into the liberal version of Christian conservatives, in everyone's business and trying to control even their personal thoughts in the name of liberalism, without any thought registering that they'd become what they claimed to have hated about where they came from. I owned a business on the edge of Seattle in the late 2010s, it was nasty having to self censor in order to avoid a cancel mob trying to Yelp bomb me or otherwise destroy my livelihood if they found out I didn't have the same beliefs they did, exactly like someone living in a small town dominated by Christian conservatives, which is where many of these people came from. I don't doubt for a minute that had I grown up in an environment similar to yours, I'd have a grudge against Christian conservatives, but since I grew up with their liberal equivalent, I came to the opposite politics, albeit with an added grudge against liberals for their hypocrisy.



I guess I can understand that in a way as I have developed a grudge against both sides of the political spectrum. But I think I hate liberal types slightly less than I do Christian conservative types.


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15 Sep 2021, 9:36 am

We’re going to be the same as we are now, or worse. We outsource much of everything. Things aren’t made in America anymore, so people don’t have jobs. Everything has either mostly been replaced with cheaper foreign labor or machines and robots. We owe a huge amount of debt. The news is all doom and gloom; our younger generation is more interested in becoming TikTok famous than practicing actual human decency and helping mankind. We owe trillions in college debt, yet most of us can’t find jobs worth a living wage and thus homelessness and lawlessness is rampant. I’m not giving up hope that the future of America can be brighter than it is now, though. I still believe in the, “American Dream”.



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15 Sep 2021, 7:36 pm

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I can't wait for this COVID mess to end!


Me too!

However, the way Pumpkin handled the COVID-19 pandemic back in 2020 is IMO, may have been a factor (but obviously not the only one mind you) that caused Pumpkin to lose the election to President Biden.

The US in 2031 I say would be even more of a dystopia than it is already especially with increases in gun violence and hate crimes all across the country. I also say that if this happens, the country will become more of a police state meaning that every single US citizen will be watched regardless of individual background.


Basically we'll wind up being like China, by the same as*holes who claim to be against China. How ironic. :jester:


I concur.


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16 Sep 2021, 10:05 am

Every thread quickly devolve into a Trump hatefest.



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16 Sep 2021, 6:54 pm

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Every thread quickly devolve into a Trump hatefest.
Sadly, that buffoon has done a great deal of damage to the status quo in US and world politics. That and the fact that individuals with certain leanings tend to think he's the second coming of Christ make it really difficult to have a political discussion in this day and age without bringing him up, especially when discussing US politics. :roll:

I'm sure that will slowly but surely become less of a problem as more and time passes subsequent to Donald's term in office, but for the time being he's kind of ruined the majority of political discussions anyone can have before we even have them.



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16 Sep 2021, 7:06 pm

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I won't be surprised if our whole system collapses on itself and the Democrats get destroyed while the fascist GQP takes over and puts into power some kind of dictatorship.


And it may or may not be Trump who becomes our next leader. It could be someone younger and more competent at playing politics.

And then a combination of climate change and World War 3 will tear this whole world apart.

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Relax. Most of the Baby Boomers will be dead by then and you will have your socialist progressive takeover of the nation at the national level.



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16 Sep 2021, 7:09 pm

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You need to think happier thoughts, man! Happier thoughts!


Yes. Things could be worse. You could be the second person of the human centipede about to receive her breakfast.



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16 Sep 2021, 8:43 pm

Tross wrote:
Mr Reynholm wrote:
Every thread quickly devolve into a Trump hatefest.
Sadly, that buffoon has done a great deal of damage to the status quo in US and world politics. That and the fact that individuals with certain leanings tend to think he's the second coming of Christ make it really difficult to have a political discussion in this day and age without bringing him up, especially when discussing US politics. :roll:

I'm sure that will slowly but surely become less of a problem as more and time passes subsequent to Donald's term in office, but for the time being he's kind of ruined the majority of political discussions anyone can have before we even have them.


Donnie was a godsend! What else should people be talking about? - military expenditure, the banking crisis of 2008, wealth-tax vs. income-tax....Globalized Neoliberalism? ah, let's discuss Trump some more, it's all his fault, after all.


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20 Sep 2021, 2:58 pm

Tross wrote:
Mr Reynholm wrote:
Every thread quickly devolve into a Trump hatefest.
Sadly, that buffoon has done a great deal of damage to the status quo in US and world politics. That and the fact that individuals with certain leanings tend to think he's the second coming of Christ make it really difficult to have a political discussion in this day and age without bringing him up, especially when discussing US politics. :roll:

I'm sure that will slowly but surely become less of a problem as more and time passes subsequent to Donald's term in office, but for the time being he's kind of ruined the majority of political discussions anyone can have before we even have them.

He revealed that we live in a country run by a criminal oligarchy beholden to globalist elites.