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IsaacG:
--- Quote from: EuchreJack on January 23, 2019, 02:36:08 pm ---As for your doubts:
I was also worried about the state of American politics, until I went to an Art Museum and was reminded of our history.
1804: Aaron Burr and Hamilton duel. That's right, two duly-elected officials pointed guns at each other and tried to kill one another.
There were subsequent fights between elected officials in the Assembly and Senate leading up the American Civil War.
1861: The American Civil War starts. Our country actually splits in half along party lines into open warfare.
Early 1900s: Communists form groups dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist world.
Domestic bombings and riots during the Vietnam war, The Black Day in July.
Honestly, things are pretty peaceful now, when you look back.
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Aye. As people get older, all the forces protecting them from the terrible realities of the world tend to fade away. To the viewer, it looks like the world is getting worse, regardless whether it is. Heck, according to Gallup Polls, Americans were more open to Syrian refugees in 2015 than to Jewish refugees in 1938. It's one of the frustrating things about 'MAGA'. The 2010s have been better than probably any preceding decade in all recorded history. I expect that to be the case with most decades over the past 150 years or so. Not easy to measure, though, and obviously some places are worse off, but overall, I'm quite confident.
--- Quote from: EuchreJack on January 23, 2019, 02:36:08 pm ---One flaw of the game is that it purports to represent a neoliberal against a populist regime, when we have a neoliberal leading a populist regime currently. The ideologies are off. You want satire? Imagine Trump lost to Bernie Sanders, and satire the supposed authoritarian socialist regime of Sanders as a neoliberal protaganist. You can poke fun at both sides and its completely ridiculous since it didn't happen...but it could have.
Now if you excuse me, I have to daydream about what if Bernie Sanders was president for a while...
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I like to imagine Freddie Mercury sang at his inauguration, though my version of events diverge from reality in the late 1970s~early 1980s.
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