Yeah, you are a bit behind.

We've been heading that way since the 60's. Rome did not fall in a decade. The hedonism took over and it was a self fulfilling prophecy.

If the liberals and democrats get their way? We as a nation are done. If we can stave the barbarians and hedonists off?

There is hope.

But, I am not holding my breath. There is little spine left in this country, at least in those making policy, and damned less in those coming up. Molly coddled sissies suckled at the breasts of participation trophies and "you're ok, but little Billy isn't because he has a ****?"

Frankly, I'm betting this place is freaking doomed. Too many snowflakes, not enough folks willing to gut it out.

USNGunner wrote:

Yeah, you are a bit behind.

We've been heading that way since the 60's. Rome did not fall in a decade. The hedonism took over and it was a self fulfilling prophecy.

If the liberals and democrats get their way? We as a nation are done. If we can stave the barbarians and hedonists off?

There is hope.

But, I am not holding my breath. There is little spine left in this country, at least in those making policy, and damned less in those coming up. Molly coddled sissies suckled at the breasts of participation trophies and "you're ok, but little Billy isn't because he has a ****?"

Frankly, I'm betting this place is freaking doomed. Too many snowflakes, not enough folks willing to gut it out.

USNGunner wrote:

America is still the strongest nation, and will be around for many more generations beyond the passing of the participation trophy generation...our history of industrialization, innovation, education, self-governance, production, wealth and financial markets, global alliances, private enterprise, judicial system, military power, technological advancements, communications systems, social and cultural norms that value freedom and individual rights along with cooperative expectations, on and on, won't be undone by a few extremists among the wide spectrum of viewpoints and people in power...

those looking for reasons that America will soon crumble will be left behind and wondering what happened, like the people who expected the Apocalypse and openly pined for the Rapture at the beginning of GWBush's War and during the Great Recession...

delta1 wrote:

we ain't going nowhere soon.

could have just as easily picked the recent surge in extreme far right movements all over the globe to moan and whine about as the beginning of the end.

frankj1 wrote:

America is still the strongest nation, and will be around for many more generations beyond the passing of the participation trophy generation...our history of industrialization, innovation, education, self-governance, production, wealth and financial markets, global alliances, private enterprise, judicial system, military power, technological advancements, communications systems, social and cultural norms that value freedom and individual rights along with cooperative expectations, on and on, won't be undone by a few extremists among the wide spectrum of viewpoints and people in power...

those looking for reasons that America will soon crumble will be left behind and wondering what happened, like the people who expected the Apocalypse and openly pined for the Rapture at the beginning of GWBush's War and during the Great Recession...

delta1 wrote:

I concur...…..and it's just **** ing scary how much we think alike.

Whistlebritches wrote:

I support the brothers. I go to local functions. I go to vet services and rallys up in the northwoods.
Some are amputees. Some are permanently disabled. All have scars. I feel guilt for not enduring what they have.

izonfire wrote:

And get off my lawn.

teedubbya wrote:

Pontificating on how much more your opinion has value because you somehow think your experiences carry more value than others experiences shows a huge blind spot which amounts to a weakness.

I know my opinion is my opinion and not automatically better that someone else’s because it’s me.

teedubbya wrote: