No, I don't think so. I'm a relatively young guy but I am imminently aware that people have been predicting the end of our Republic for a very long time. And, generally, they've done so from a perspective that is colored by their own biases. And yet here we stand.

If you are relatively young then you do not have the benefit of history.  We no longer have a populace dedicated to the preservation of law, we have one dedicated to breaking the law, ignoring laws they don't like and actively supporting the breaking of laws for those on their side.  This is not a recipe for a stable Republic, it is one headed for anarchy. The protesors in the streets that are "fighting" against Trump are not just protesters, they are enablers.  They validate bad behavior by others.

The new racism is against white conservatives.  You don't care and might not believe but that will not lessen your guilt in not stopping it. If you don't believe this, go somewhere that nobody knows you, strike up a conversation with someone on the left and quietly and calmly start explaing the right's position. You are a smart guy, you can pull that off. Stay calm and polite and see what kind of reaction you get. I recommend that it be a relatively public place, for safety reasons.

Seriously - you don't see what is going on because to you it looks "good". But where will it leave you in 10 years?

I don't care what the environmental problem is, when the fixers tell me that the solution is tariffs, taxes and making it cost more, I know they are full of shit.






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The GOP did it six times during the Obama administration.  They control both Houses of Congress and the Executive, yet the law still stands, and according to the Cheeto Jesus is likely to do so for a couple years.

 Due to the chocolate commie having the original bill written with so many tentacles and reaching into areas other than healthcare it's a complex bill to dismantle.  This bill (ACA) was never about "affordable healthcare" but more about taking over more control of the economy by government.   

 It will take some  time to overhaul and kill off the onerous regulations that entwine the bill.  If congress and the president totally killed the bill right now as it stands you and the other snowflakes would be in full faux outrage once again.

 I'm willing (as most reasonable folks) to give them some time to fix the abomination left  by your dark overlord.

If you get them young enough sometimes you can fix them.  I'm working on my niece and I suspect I'm the reason she doesn't outright claim to be liberal.  I'm not inundating her with right wing stuff, that doesn't work because those sources can be just as shrill and biased. I'm encouraging her to go to ALL sources on both sides and to use her own critical thinking skills to sort out truth from fiction. The facts are there but you have to go beyond getting all your news from the facebook feed and mainstream media.

But it's a job, you have to undo 12 years of public school indoctrination and then 4 years of university brainwashing.  But if as in the case of my niece, she has not really been interested in politics at all until now, she's a clean slate other than the rhetoric that's been pounded into her. She has not engaged in a lot of deep rationalization yet.

But when they get old, like my brother, they've spent a lifetime building a strong rationalized structure of thought, all based on false foundations, but now set like concrete.  I don't hold out any hope I'd ever be able to change him now, even without the wife.

Just like the false foundation of what you said Little Joe.  The falsehood that males are somehow keeping females oppressed in this country.  There is no wage discrimination.  If there were, all employers would hire only women, because they'd be getting a deal.  The payment disparity is because women are less productive and a higher risk to hire, because they still quit when they have babies, or take more time off.

I can't speak to how things were before I was born (mid 50s) but in my lifetime I have experienced exactly zero gender discrimination.  I had a great career in a male dominated field (engineering).   I've always been able to do anything I want, even in male dominated activities, like fly airplanes and shoot guns.  I can also do female dominated things like sewing and baking, without the stigma of being an effeminate fruit.  I perceive my world and opportunities to be much greater and more free than men's. 

I have been able to work full time when I chose, and then quit and live off my husband when I chose.  For the price of what?  Having to keep the house reasonably clean for him?  Cook a dinner most nights?  Women call THAT being oppressed?  It's NOTHING compared to what men go through daily to provide for us.  And lets talk about men.  The most dangerous and boring jobs go to males almost exclusively.  Garbage pickup. Construction, soldiering in combat.  By the way, why on earth women are screaming "sex discrimination" because they aren't allowed to go into combat is beyond me. Be careful what you wish for bitches. We are going to see the day drafting for combat includes women. Thanks a lot. Yeah I was really jealous of those guys registering for the draft during the Vietnam war.

For me, I'm happy to let the big strong men be warriors for me. Although if you're a diesel dyke and wish to have the exact same job as a man, I feel you should as long as you can pass the same physical strength standards.  I don't believe in lowering standards just to let in women.  But I also don't believe in discrimination so if you are female and can pass the standards, you should be let in.

But such women are not the ones with whom I have a problem. I have a problem with the precious little whiny clueless spoiled brats who demand that standards be adjusted for them.  The young females protesting for "women's rights" in America today have reached a level of narcissistic self absorption I thought possible only in the most warped personality disorder, a level of deep ignorance and lack of insight that is beyond belief.  A sense of entitlement far worse than any spoiled princess in any fairy tale.

But back to my point, THIS is an example of a false belief my brother apparently holds as a foundation for his liberalism - believing somehow that in America today females are still oppressed.  How much does a person have to twist and warp their brain to believe this?  How much must you deliberately shut your eyes to reality in front of you to believe like this?  People like this actually believe that because Hillary lost the EC she did so because she's female and we are still oppressing women. Are you kidding me?  Hillary reached heights of power and influence of which the great majority of males in this country couldn't even dream.

These snowflakes are crying and whining over poor Hillary having been oppressed by not being elected and what do they feel for the LITERALLY poor male without a job who voted for Trump - absolute contempt.   If giving women the vote led to this kind of spoiled rotten confused priorities, we never should have done it.

I think you're being sarcastic or you're applying too much nobility to this.  When I joined the Navy, it wasn't because I wanted to demonstrate self-less service to my country, it was because I had screwed off in college and was one semester away from getting kicked out.  I needed a way to live while I figured out what I wanted to do.  Four years, three months later I drove out of Gate 5 at Norfolk with some experience, just a tiny bit of maturity and the GI bill to get me through finishing school while I also worked for the university.  That led the next step, which let to the next step and 25 years later I'm here with an MBA, a decent job that I have to work too hard at and still a burning desire to own an airplane that I really cannot afford because someone here spends all our money.

You might not have set out to do selfless service to our nation, but you certainly ended up doing so and earning my grateful Thanks as well.

I am a recipient of the GI Bill.   In my opinion, it was not a scholarship in any sense of the word.

My GI Bill required me to put money in the system and then the government matched my contribution $3 for every $1 I contributed.

I put in my 4 years of active duty (followed by 2 years inactive reserve) to complete my 6 year obligation.  During the 4 years active duty I worked very hard to earn that benefit.

Mrs. Obama is completely and gloriously irrelevant to Americans now, except as a little aside in the White House gift shop books about First Ladies. She contributed nothing whatsoever of meaning or importance to her country in that role, and I plan to think about her not at all in these new and exciting times.

Buh bye!

Oh, it was all over Fox, Breitbart, and a host of other sources.  It really made CNN and Buzzfeed look like the tools they are.  It was a perfect example of CNN attempting to promote a fake news story.

It was more than that.  It is a clear example of CNN faking news in order to drive their agenda.
They are not a news business, they are an arm of the alt-left political establishment.