HooDat wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 12:34 pm
jhu72 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 11:48 am
The disparity and treatment of whites vs minorities is the big problem. The guns aren't the ones making this choice. We have been kicking this can down the road for a couple hundred years with it getting better each generation, but we still have people who think this situation is alright. If time isn't really up, I think the minorities have decided it really should be. And they are right.
YEP!
And their rightful desire to protest to call our attention to the issues is being co-opted (or at least attempted to be co-opted) by extremists from both sides - who have destructive goals rather than constructive.
Meanwhile the media throwing gasoline and matches on everything they see.
The vast majority of people who are decent and occupy the middle are bombarded by conflicting images and being told to line up on one side or the other. We need resist the urge to pick the sides being offered by the extremists: (a) tear everything down and rage against everything, because nothing is perfect, or (b) resist all change and fall into tribalism.
It just shouldn't be that hard to:
- fix our schools and our legal system/police force (to provide equal opportunity)
- offer people decent access to medical help (because that is what communities do for one another)
- fix our roads and infrastructure (because the value benefits everyone)
- make sure people clean up their messes (eg: no free rides regarding pollution and consumption of resources for profit)
and then get the heck out of the way.
it shouldn't be that hard?
sweet!
good luck stopping the machines in motion.
pendulums have to swing first.
what got us here was gridlock in our 2 party system. not compromise for the collective. we've been at exasperation for a while, so next is division. division sells short term.
there's at least a half dozen scenarios for what's after that, vegas will be taking odds.