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What Americans in a 1998 poll expected to happen by the year 2025 (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 46 points 10 months ago (4 children)

That last one is a trick question. Depends on how you define "war". By some accounts we never stopped being in a state of war somewhere since well before 1998. But if you ask congress, last time was WWII.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    It's not a trick question. It's obviously referring to a war on the scale of WW2. A total war that requires major government intervention in the economy and everyday life. That's why it says "full scale war," not merely "war." The last full-scale war we had was WW2.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Then there was the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, etc.

    Remain in a constant state of some sort of war, and you can rationalize militarizing all your multi-redundant law enforcement agencies over every square inch of the map.

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