Zonie63
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
I have noticed in my time here on collarme, that the majority of posters fall into one of two categories. There seem to be very few moderates on the boards.
I think it depends on how you define "moderate." What I see a lot of here is partisanship and strong devotion to the party line, whatever it may be. That tells me that a lot of people don't really think for themselves; they just follow whatever the party media tell them to follow. Strictly speaking, I would still define the majority here as "moderate," since the parties themselves are relatively moderate (even though they constantly accuse each other of being "extreme," but that's just your standard political mudslinging and not to be taken seriously).
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So there are three possibilities for the Future of the United States, two in our control, one that isnt.
Option 1, the ultra conservatives gain the upper hand and we end up with a theocracy, i.e like V for Vendetta or the classic "The Handmaid's Tale."
I'm not too wild about this option. I don't think ultra conservatives will gain the upper hand anyway, although I don't see conservatives as being as monolithic as they're sometimes portrayed. I think the fiscal conservatives may gain the upper hand over the social conservatives, and it may be something more like a corporate run society, like in the movie Rollerball. We'll all have our comforts and gizmos, sitting around wondering where it's all coming from.
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Option 2) We end up with a liberal country where everything is legal but guns.
I seriously doubt this will come to pass. We are a liberal country, strictly speaking, as we have been since our country was founded. Over the course of our development, we've become incrementally more liberal as time wore on.
In today's political language, "liberal" can have many interpretations, so we'd have to figure out what exactly a "liberal country" would look like. Oftentimes, "liberal" is associated with fiscal irresponsibility ("tax and spend"), along with the government waste, abuse, theft, and corruption that goes along with it. Of course, the "conservatives" aren't any better in this regard, although they would rather borrow and spend, but they still have all the waste, abuse, theft, and corruption.
That's primarily why I see any ideological rifts as being just bunkum for the masses. It doesn't matter which side gets into power, since we're still faced with the same wasteful, abusive, corrupt, thieving bureaucracy. That's really what needs to be fixed here.
Foreign policy is another area in need of fixing, but neither party seems willing or able to do much either way. That's what brings us to your third option.
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Option 3) Some despot in some collapsing regime decides to start nuking people for making his life a living hell by setting up sanctions for human rights violations, sponsoring terrorism or just because he hasnt gotten laid in a month and he is going to nuke the planet.
I suppose that's always been a possibility. It doesn't even have to be some despot in a collapsing regime. The nuclear genie is pretty much out of the bottle, so it's only a matter of time before something like that falls into the wrong hands, if it hasn't already.
Perhaps there's some supervillain out there with some fiendish device and a diabolical plan to take over the world.
Another possibility would be something like Colossus: The Forbin Project. A giant supercomputer would just take over everything and stop all war.
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In my opinion, compromise has become some evil thing that should never be considered by either side.
Personally, considering the problems that civilization has caused in the forms of pollution, poverty and general distrust, I would almost consider living in a post apocalyptic world a welcome change. At least then people would have a fair idea of where they stand in relation to everyone else.
At this point, I'm not really sure what the future holds. In the short-term, I predict more of the same, the usual political BS and mismanagement. The economy will have its ups and downs, although I think we'll have to take a harder look at certain resource and environmental issues in the long run.
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