The divided states of America?

Non smoking gun

Honorable
The clipping below is from the UK satirical magazine, Private Eye. Does Adam Smith really paint an accurate picture of the state of affairs in the US?IMG20220722091533~2.jpg
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Does Adam Smith really paint an accurate picture of the state of affairs in the US?

I think he's picking and choosing details when there's a broader viewpoint that's missed...We are seeing division and strife across the Western world, not just in the US but perhaps it's more manifested in the US currently and noticed more in America since the US is sort of de facto leader of the Western world...I believe there's a concerted effort to bring down the economic, social, and political structures of the West and there's many venues that this agenda is being pushed through...One of those is by encouraging and building up of the extremities of those three western structures, economic, social, and political...Everything and anything can be taken or developed into something extreme, and civilized structures in any society can be easily manipulated into something extreme by few people...This has been going on for a few decades at least, the divisions through our political and social structures and using the economic structure as a means to an end before destabilizing that structure...To what end?...I think only the true powers that be and control this world knows the answer to that...However in the meantime many will suffer and die as the Western world goes through this upheaval, of which the extremity, duration, and outcome are remaining to be seen...I'm not saying that I think the West is lost or that America is lost, there are still a considerable percentage of the Western population that haven't succumbed to the destabilization and divisions occurring, people of intelligence and common sense which I think can still make a difference...

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Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
you are over-blowing the whole issue. All people in all the countries quarrel all the time. There is nothing special about it in US. In Poland their Polish peasants forbade urbanised women to have abortion as well. In India democratically elected ruling party, representing rural people, comes with bulldozer and flattens your house if you are Muslim seen on a public protest.

50% of people in any country have IQ bellow average. For reference US Army refuses to recruit people with IQ lower then 85, because they are impossible to train. So, 50% of people in any country are certified idiots and they have equal political rights to other 50% with IQ above average and these certified idiots want things done their way or they'll use violence. Now, when you ad education into the mix, situation gets much worse then 50/50, its more like 80/20.
 

Non smoking gun

Honorable
Maybe DC but I think king makers like Murdoch are major factors.
There was an article this weekend that said Murdoch has decided Trump is no longer the choice.
It has began with a scathing piece in the NY Post
 

Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
Maybe DC but I think king makers like Murdoch are major factors.
There was an article this weekend that said Murdoch has decided Trump is no longer the choice.
It has began with a scathing piece in the NY Post
Trump is unhinged. He's threat to US democracy.

Trump had raised $800 million from his supporters and thus he holds Republican party by the balls. Follow me or you won't get money for your political campaign. Trump had proven that he doesn't need Murdoch or any mainstream media, but concerted action against him from the whole mainstream can certainly bring him down.

But Trumps rhetoric had wore off over the time. He's not such an exciting proposal for the decisive undecided people in the middle of the voting spectrum as he used to be.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Ugh the last person I wish to discuss is Trump...He's not the reason for the direction western society is moving and the divisions associated...This has been going on a lot longer behind the scenes, long before Trump...Anyway, I'll bow out of this discussion, enjoy...

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Todd Feinman

Show us the satellite pics...
The horrible thing is not that people are ignorant of the truth, it's that they know the truth, and don't care...
 
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Todd Feinman

Show us the satellite pics...
It is so depressing. It is so very hard to watch the world burn the and other animals die, and see people so willfully ignorant about it all. I wish more people had listened to grandad about why we fought WWII. We are indeed on the edge of the abyss; the wages of human exceptionalism. And here we are still building better weapons on the one planet we have --which was a great gift, that we are destroying, because we are idiots. God help us. I hope our visitors try to help, but we might be helpless in our fate.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
It is so depressing. It is so very hard to watch the world burn the and other animals die, and see people so willfully ignorant about it all. I wish more people had listened to grandad about why we fought WWII. We are indeed on the edge of the abyss; the wages of human exceptionalism. And here we are still building better weapons on the one planet we have --which was a great gift, that we are destroying, because we are idiots. God help us. I hope our visitors try to help, but we might be helpless in our fate.

My grandparents were saying about the same thing in 1968
 
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