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[–]According-Junket-885 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I dunno. The problem to America's polarism is its two parties.

In the modern democracy, we have several parties. As an example, an Indian (a real guy from India) married the leader from the conservative party in my country.

To be fair, she wasn't the leader of the party when they married, but he was Indian.

[–]jamesK_3rd 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the American system, as it was designed, and the ill that plagues or society now.

Our system was setup for a limited government, the federal govt was given certain and defined tasks and roles. Anything else, was generally given as an authority to the states, and the people.

The federal govt wasnt supposed to be doing all these things for people/companies/groups our federal govt does now. The states, charities, religious institutions, clubs and individuals were supposed to do that.

The government has largely supplanted these civic organizations, to the point that most of these no longer exist or are extremely diminished in capacity and capability. Many, if not most Americans no longer believe their rights come from God, they believe they are granted rights from the government. Likewise, they generally don't look too solve their own problems, they look for a govt entity to solve it for them. Even within "conservative" spheres, they are fine taking whatever money they can from the govt and proclaiming independence from "something".

Governance and government was setup intentionally to be slow, to have gridlock, because the people of this country once believed that the individual, and individual rights trumped government rights. But with that comes civic engagement, your church takes care of the people in your town, moose, lions and golden circle clubs take care of the retired until the point where the elderly returned to their children to help with grandchildren, or be taken care of until they pass on. There are defined morality and social norms, and you didn't violate these.

None of that exists now, and people not only want to, but it's likely that they will have to(and will) get rid of many of the rights this great society was afforded, free speech, 2nd amendment, freedom of association and property rights etc, likely on favor of something like a China style democracy, we give you trinkets, you shut up, as that's generally where we are at already.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Power will never stop growing until forced to.

[–]Vulptex 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I've noticed many close friends and relatives suddenly become completely different people, and they seem "dead" and like lifeless shells of themselves. Often they start behaving like a caricature of themselves, like something else is trying to imitate them.

There's also a lot of "coincidences" in my life that seem suspiciously targeted at me. And this life feels fake and shows all the classic signs of being one of those nightmares where my life is ruined, including even the feeling that I'm forgetting a whole real life in the waking world.

[–]Tom_BombadilBombadildo 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I've noticed many close friends and relatives suddenly become completely different people, and they seem "dead" and like lifeless shells of themselves. Often they start behaving like a caricature of themselves, like something else is trying to imitate them.

I'm really hoping the nasal brain-swab Covid tests wasn't some futuristic super Darpa human-cyborg swab.

If the zombie apocalypse breaks out, then I'll be running around doing the lucid dreaming hand-check...

And questioning the hell out of the results...

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This has been happening for years.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The 5G patch on the divided extremist renderings of our shared simulation requires too much processing power so all the buffering glitches appear like autopilot NPCs, but Neo will reset the Matrix again soon and all will be well, for a while.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There have been times where I have wondered if shit was real or if I was merely imagining it. Am I really here with this hot girl in this fancy restaurant or am I here alone talking to an empty seat and just hallucinating. Good cannabis can do that.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not on anything.

That I know of. Who knows what they pump into us in the real world.

[–]yabbit 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

It's a symptom of the loss of community in modern society. We're animals who've always had a tribe and without one go fucking nuts.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I go nuts when there is a tribe to control me even more than the forces of this world and my body already do.

[–]AXXA👁⃤웃 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

💡 insightful

[–]asterias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have seen societies working like this in real life and it always leads to bad things happening.