Was Toront really saying that Trump or everyone who voted Trump is/was racist? Or that just a lot of racist people voted ALSO for Trump?
Seriously, you have no problem to say that SJW idiots, voted for clinton. But dare someone says lots of racist people voted for Trump. Then! Of course, it's time to take up arms.
Has the idea of middle ground been comletely lost?
And that example about complaining-about-complainers-is-actually-allright ... yeah, because this is what this topic is about. Showing how disgusting SJWs and PC is ... in a community that acutally doesn't have any love for those people ... you guys are true rebells!
If that was the case than how can you say that we can apply European socialism to the states?
Just beacuse you can't apply it 1 to 1, which I also never claimed, doesn't mean that you can't look at what works, and try learning from it. Nations and situations change over time. As you correctly said, the US is a very diverse culture. I mean just look at how the people live and work in large urban areas, like Manhattan and compare it to rural locations inside the US. And it seems likely that this trend will even expand. Not to mention that there are quite some hefty challanges on the horizon, and I am not only talking about global warming here. A heavy increse in automation and brake troughs in technology are just around the corner, machines that will eventually take over any menial task that is right now done by humans, even nursing isn't completely out of the question. And right now, no one can really tell if that will be a smoth transition or not.
To me, it feels like a lot of people simply want to return to what they knew from the 50s and 60s. But I am not sure if that is actually possible. You can't turn the clocks back. Just looking at the demographics, the US will become even more diverse and it seems that more and more people will concentrate in cities and large urban areas by 2050. I am not saying socialism is the holy grail, even though I am a very strong advocate. But capitalism, as how it was at least practisted for the last 60-70 years, has lead to quite a lot of severe issues, and it doesn't look like we will find a second planet full of resources and fertile land any time soon. The west is on top of a food chain here, but even that, can't save us from all the issues.
So the question on how to actually deal with the restrictions of this planet, will become a very serious challange with a growing population in the future, of at least 10,5 billion people by 2050, and it doesn't seem like more people can become actually wealthier than they are now, a lot of signs seems to indicate that we reached our peak as far as production and materialism goes. And yet, a large part of the US is still living in a strange case of,
we-don't-really-have-to-care-what-the-rest-of-the-world does, even though polls around the world seem to indicate that most people see the US as the largest threat to world peace right now - what ever if that is true or not is a whole different question.
I fear, if you don't tacle the social issues the US is facing right now, and will be facing in the coming future, that you will have some very bloody and severe revolutions there, eventually ending with a very violent redistribution of wealth.
Of course, my predictions and ideas are as good like anyone else. But, for me it really isn't a question if we get this redistribution or not. For me it is simpyl a question if it will be a viollent redistribution, or a smoth one.