Nearly half of Americans, 49 percent, say that the best times of the country are behind them
This has been true since Reagan gutted the New Deal.
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Ah, so a bunch of geriatrics vote Republican, believe the best times are ahead, and also believe the country is more divided than ever. Contrasted by, the younger voters believe the American dream is dead, and we need radical change.
Also if we’re anonymous, we hate everyone just a little bit more.
We’ve lost the moral center in this country that we pretended to believe. Now we’re steeped in pessimism & sardonic irony. Everything is more expensive to boot.
The older generations in this country have barely any connection to reality. We’re bleeding social services, creating massive debt, & the planet is clearly worse each year. It’s hard to be positive about anything in America right now, unless you love fascist secret police and drink the authoritative, agitprop koolaid.
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Wait a minute, I thought America was great again. Are you trying to tell me it isn't?
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We know. Problem is, a third of us thinks the solution is killing the other third and the rest can't be bothered. As the famous saying goes.
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Don't they get it yet? The United States is over. That country doesn't exist anymore.
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Mike Judge is a time traveler and idiocracy was a documentary.
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I'd sell my country out for a few hundred thousand and a plane ticket to Europe ... if I had anything to sell.
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More than half of Harris voters, 51 percent, say that America is not a functioning democracy, while 52 percent of Trump voters take the opposite view and say the U.S. is a model.
I'm amazed only half think America is not a functioning democracy. American "democracy" is totally broken.
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And how many of that 35% are willing to take the risk of it becoming a civil war?
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and how does the distribution of gun-ownership fall between these two groups of people?
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we should just take a state, like Arizona, and set a date to ship all the folks willing to fight and let them duke it out.
no guns, no blades, just fists and legs. you don't get food or water either. when you give up you can be reintroduced to society or continue living in the Arizona hellscape of your own creation.
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... But what exactly that revolution looks like and what the outcome of it will be is completely different for everyone on all sides.
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"Surely my form of revolution will succeed in a relatively bloodless coup. There is no likelihood of an age of barbarism"
Like I get it but there are 400 million Americans spread out over more than 2 million square kilometers. And unlike Russia, people actually live in a lot of it.
The 2nd American Revolution or Civil War would be a bloodbath for the ages.
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Politico is not a good source for most types of politics information.
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To that 35%, I share the words of John Lennon from the beforetimes...
You say you got a real solution, well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution, well, you know
We're all doin' what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is, brother, you have to wait
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