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In reply to the discussion: Woman offers sex for two double cheeseburgers, deputies say [View all]sudopod
(5,019 posts)You haven't noticed the growing, frightening meanness of "society"? Have you been listening to what the majority party in the House has been proposing with regard to destroying the social safety net? Fully half of US voters seem to think that's just a swell idea. Have you noticed the exponential growth in hate groups in the last three years, or how as a nation that we've decided that it's OK to torture people, to bomb them via remote control, even though dozens of innocents die for every successful target? How we're murdering the earth in order to squeeze one or two more decades of "normality" from the fossil fuel economy, and no one gives a damn? How ignorance is prized higher than learning, faith more than reason, punishment more than mercy?
Do I need to play the "let him die!" video for you? That's the political mainstream. Can you honestly say that's an improvement from 25 years ago?
None of this is rational, nor is it sustainable.
There's something deeply ugly happening in the core of this nation. This thread is a fine example.
As for the rest of the world, there are peoples and nations moving in the opposite direction. On average, yes, the state of global humanity is improving. Unfortunately, we seem to be hitting a local minimum.
Maybe you're just being contrary for the hell of it. In which case, one can only shrug and move on.