This country is headed for a precipice, and it isn't because of any agenda, but because of rampant polarization.
We like to rant about how moronic the left is, but you can't really believe that half of the country is stupid or evil. It would be narcissistic to do so. The other side, on average, is just as reasonable as this side. Rhetoric that paints them as evil only drives them away, and vice versa.
A decade ago democrats and republicans in Washington would socialize with each other just as easily outside their party as inside. Now it's rare that they even talk to each other. Should we be surprised when their goals and stances shift farther and farther away?
I know you guys mostly subscribe to the "the farther right someone is, the better" camp, and to a lesser extent I know a lot of you see compromise with these people as a surrender, but if you listen to their ideas and don't dismiss them idly, they'll usually do the same for you, no matter how far right you are. (The religious right are an exception, you guys are gonna have problems.)
Just a reminder to treat your countrymen as Americans first and liberals second. The path we've been going down is not the one that keeps a country intact in the long run.
Get fucked cupcake you're just scared because you know which side has the most guns and the skills needed to use them effectively. Leftist heads on pikes is the only future I want for the u.s.
>>68909896
>the most guns and the skills needed to use them effectively
You mean me?
>Leftist heads on pikes is the only future I want for the u.s.
It's better than being one of the smug Europeans who wants America to be more like them I guess.
>>68909676
Quality post and arguably true although I don't think it's true that parties are so divided they don't talk to each other. The system is highly depended on formalized interaction and compromise.
The issue is that right or wrong, a huge amount of voters believe the current system is highly flawed. They end up being polarized in some way because polarization is really the only alternative to what they see, probably mistakenly, as a fatally flawed system.
The public doesn't understand politics. Only emotions and base distillations they get from media sources. Their views are constructed in real time and improvised as they get more "information". One trending topic and medium meme at a time, each vacuumed sealed to prevent any chance of them forming any sort of relation to one another. They don't look at things historically, culturally, humanistically, or even selfishly, there exists no system for interpreting "the facts." Compromise becomes impossible, as a simple example, when a "moderate" "thinks" there should be more restrictions on guns, they want gun owners to give up something they want very much-- in exchange for nothing. "But it's the right thing to do!" And the yelling starts.
Public politics is so aestheticized it's artificial drama, just local news crime stories blown up nationally. It's not meant to provoke a response, but rather to give the illusion that the public is participating and informed.
This system basically can work as long as public views of politics are essentially unactionable and compartmentalized from actual policy. The real issue would be if the simulation of public politics begins to interfere with actual politics. If the government truly does serve the will of the people this will happen at some point, probably to the detriment of everyone involved.
Will Hillary go to jail?
Hillary for Prison
>>68909579
only if Trump wins
her money and power makes her above the law
>Barack
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>HUSSEIN
>Obama
People talk about "Drumpf", but how the fuck did a man with this allahuackbar level name get elected?
Seriously, did he promise free stuff or something? How did this happen on post 9/11 USA?
He's black
>>68909663
Lol, that changes everything
>>68909663
You mean people voted on him out of guilt?
Tell me if I'm wrong /pol/ economists.
PREMISE: lowering taxes on businesses helps them expend
Reasoning..
>Lower taxes on businesses => less likely to relocate offshore
>Less likely to relocate offshore => expand locally
>Local expansion => increase of jobs
>Increase of jobs => increase of average net worth
>Increase of average net worth => increased buying power/consumption
>Increased buying power/consumption => increased income for businesses
>Increased income for businesses => increased production
>Increased production => increased need for employees
>Increased need for employees => expanding business
>Expanding business => more jobs
More jobs = repeat cycle
>???
>fix poverty and revive middle class
Am I being too simplistic or idealistic? Am I missing something?
bumping for interest
>>68908885
>Lower taxes on businesses => less likely to relocate offshore
I'm afraid this doesnt work. You are suggesting that you can lower the taxes to the point where it is cheaper for the bussiness to produce their, lets say, t-shirts in canada than in fucking Taiwan? No way.... They dont have to pay shit to their taiwanese workers, nor give 2 fucks about their work conditions since the laws there are very lax.
>>68910800
So what kind of incentive would work?
MEDIA COVER UP AND DAMAGE CONTROL
>News breaks out that a Belgian security guard working at nuclear reactor is shot dead and his ID stolen. ID being deactivated by authorities.
>couple of hours later
>No, he didn't work at a nuclear reactor!
>What ID?
>all details removed from page
Dutch:
http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/38570/Aanslag-Brussels-Airport/article/detail/4270817/2016/03/26/Beveiliger-kerncentrale-Belgie-doodgeschoten.dhtml
RT:
https://www.rt.com/news/337276-belgium-nuclear-guard-killed/
Something fishy is going on, the story was way too specific to have been "a mistake". How would someone mistake such a thing anyway? This is just damage control, because the safety of a nuclear reactor being at jeopardy, and being an actively targeted by terrorists would make the masses panic!
>Please no panic! Refugees welcome! -Merkel
RT archive link, in case they change it too:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160326084146/https://www.rt.com/news/337276-belgium-nuclear-guard-killed/
Metro original story:
http://www.metronieuws.nl/nieuws/buitenland/2016/03/beveiliger-kerncentrale-belgie-doodgeschoten
Metro revised version:
http://www.metronieuws.nl/nieuws/buitenland/2016/03/vermoorde-bewaker-werkte-niet-bij-kerncentrale
>>68908737
This probably did happen but they're just trying to cover it up to keep people from freaking out.
>>68908940
yeah, that's the point of this thread
>>68908940
They don't want the people to be faced with the truth.
I don't know guys, I used to be for Trump but I've realized it's ALL a sham. Is this the true red pill?
By the numbers
>>68908645
Explain yourself burger
>>68909315
Follow the numbers my friend.
It's more widespread than you think. The illusion of choice is a powerful one.
Pythagoras invented the tool you need
>>68909447
What are you babbling on about
>>68908403
What are you doing, fatty?
>>68908403
Who even wants to be a victim?
Everybody wants to be a victim nowadays, just for that sweet potential gibsmedat, that's why people are claiming to be victims.
>>68908403
I don't get it... is she saying she is scared whenever she is behind a wheel?
> I thought I was in the safest place in the safest country *current year*.
> No.
Seriously just fucking kill me.
>>68907395
>R A R E
>A
>R
>E
>>68907395
Your government would have no qualms deploying "riot control" tanks right?
>>68907395
>China
>not genociding them
why?
Is Dave Rubin based?
>>68907352
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v02oM9VLF9M
KEK LEAF
>>68907352
>faggot
>based
You may pick one and only one.
>>68907352
>homosexual jew
how do you morons never learn, you'd think the "based ben shapiro" thing would have taught you but no
it's over for Trump bros...the christians are flocking to bernie after the bird landed on him.
KISS FEET
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And sage again for twitter fag
/thread
>>68907244
>protestants
kek
Holy kek this man cracks me up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7ZtjGJ4LD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8V1s-NVOhY
>>68906789
What ever happened to him? Are there any recent videos of him?
Got the unedited image?
>>68906789
Source of that pic?
>Have to do a project for a class reporting over the Civil Rights act
>Involves our group joining a Prezi presentation my teacher starts, and we add on to in order to finish
>Have to then give a presentation in class, including a speech, over our additions
>Get into the Prezi
>This is the first fucking slide
I can't do this shit, /pol/. This is a goddamned college class, and they're legitimately saying there's no biological differences between race. Why is it suddenly okay to be a complete retard as long as you're not offensive?
Tell them grades are a social construct and that grading people based on performance is discriminatory and can only be done from a place of privilege.
>>68906672
It's not discrimination unless there's heightened infant mortality rates.
>>68906482
I'm actually taking a Asian/Asian American studies class in Uni. I thought it would be about history and shit,but its all just leftist propaganda.
However their argument that "race is a social construct" is not what you think. The educated argument is that race is a social construct because definitions of whiteness have changed over time, and are almost always used as a means to have a monopoly on civil resources.
John Trump the second raped little childrens xD
I can't deny.
>>68906274
Tough times..
dumb slav shitposter
LOL TYT wants to host a debate. They even have a petition going so they can host the democratic debate! I personally think this would be hilarious what do you think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkoBk5K-FH0
>>68906036
The Young Keks
>>68906136
LOL
The Young T*rks want to host a debate? a democratic one? give me a break man...
How do we fix the Canadian problem?
>>68905966
A wall.
>>68905966
Uranium-235
A leaf blower
