Current Events > Do you think the United States has longevity?

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Knowing that the US isn't even 250 years old, and extremely young compared to other countries.

And, considering how polarized we currently are, how every issue is constantly politicized which prevents progress, and how government really can't even agree to important issues to move forward...

Consider how an election just passed and one side is literally ready to take up guns because their person didn't win....

Do you think the United States will actually last as a country?

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could go either way at this point. we'll need some dramatic progressive intervention at some point soon.

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No vote.
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we all hate each other
infrastructure is crumbling
climate change is getting worse
deficit is super high

I think we might still persist as a nation but we may undergo some massive changes at some point. hopefully for the better. we may have to fight a civil war to solve things

Yes, if only to own the libs

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I was having this discussion with my fiance earlier about coronavirus vaccine.

I was saying I would be extremely surprised if they required a COVID vaccine for kids to enter public school, same way we have polio and measles vaccines as required for public school.

Basically, those vaccines were already mandated many many years ago. But we live in such a polarized political climate these days, that Republicans/Democrats would fight over whether it was the right thing to do to require COVID vaccines for public schools, that it would never pass.

And using that as an example for pretty much everything- that we as a country are at a point where we can't even pass meaningful legislation to move forward due to stonewalling.

Then you have jokes like the Trump team preventing the Biden team form transitioning just due to revenge tactics. Leaving us vulnerable to attack from opponents.

Our country is a shit show.

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CADE FOSTER posted...

we all hate each other
infrastructure is crumbling
climate change is getting worse
deficit is super high

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bump

I was about to make this topic and totally forgot I already made it

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Of course we do. You say we are polarized but we arent. Your average person doesnt care about "real issues". They just care about making money and chilling

With how terribly we're handling COVID alongside the fact that half the country wanted to give Trump a second term, I'm going with no.

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Our current Constitution and political system is increasingly strained and showing its age(and fatal rigidity). IMO, it's not up to the challenges of the 21st century. Inevitably, things will come to a head. That could be in 4 years or 40 years; the collapse of a system of government(at a specific point in time) is generally only obvious in hindsight. It could lead to something better or worse, and it could involve the U.S. splintering.

AlCalavicci posted...

Knowing that the US isn't even 250 years old, and extremely young compared to other countries.

At 250 years, that actually makes US one of the oldest

most countries have constitutions/systems that aren't even a century old

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Not if we're lucky

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It'll be fine. No one sane really wants to change things up enough to become New Europe

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I give it 40 more years until its decline into irrelevancy is obvious to even the dumbest of dumbasses.

Unless something drastically changes. Which it wont.

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