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From the point of view of our

moat — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:50:24 +0000

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From the point of view of our society as the collection of all the environments created by our forms of life, I can see how what you term " bourgeois chauvinism" is a powerful factor in our lives. It is not the case, however, that identity politics has simply enabled the premises and behaviors that demonstrate that power.

Goldwater sneered at the liberal agenda as being nothing but an attempt to unnaturally promote the fortunes of one group over those of another. Whatever defects there may be in the aspirations of the Liberals, they fundamentally changed our country where all the groups that were kept apart by the apartheid of culture and economic sub regions are being forced, slowly and painfully, to deal with each other in a new commons.

The Alt Right is just the Old Right claiming that problems created by the new commons can be fixed by removing it. Now that is what I would call some old school Jacobean return to a land of privilege restored with peasants made pleasantly quiet or dead.

Forget the gloves. Watch the hands.

Blacks, Latinos, Asians,

rmrd0000 — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 00:06:29 +0000

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Blacks, Latinos, Asians, women, etc. are not responsible for the problems the alt-right use as a source of the anger. If you are a white male with superior morals, mental capacity, etc., you will do well in the United States. If you are not doing well, it is not because some black, Latino, Asian,,or woman took your rightful place in society. Dylan Roof thought that the nine black people he murdered were responsible for his failures in life.

Factory jobs are gone and wages are stagnant. Minority groups did not create that circumstance. Blacks had to combat homophobia in the black community. Blacks are fighting misogyny in the black community. Gays and women are not the cause of the problems facing the black community.

The alt-right does not want to take personal responsibility for anything. That is the appeal of Donald Trump. Trump allows whites to place the blame on minorities and women. He ran a hateful birther campaign and tries to blame Hillary. I reject what Trump and the alt-right is selling.

There's a problem I've

ocean-kat — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 20:28:26 +0000

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There's a problem I've written on several times here. The fallacy of using one's personal experience to define the whole. No one can know enough people to use it as a gage of the vastly larger population. Reading is the only way to gain information about the much larger American and world population. A poll of just one's friends and acquaintances would be considered too small a sample to be meaningful without even considering the skewed demographic imbalance.

While yearly marriage rates have declined slightly and the percentage of the population married has also declined more than half of the population is still married. "80 percent of Americans are married by age 40. A more general finding shows that 70 percent of people ages 25 – 44 have been married at least once. Women marry at younger ages than men—ladies have a 50-50 chance of being married at 25, and almost three-quarters of us are likely to have married by age 30. Only 61 percent of men will have done so by 30. By age 40, however, the gap closes "

I don't know your age but statistically speaking the older you are the more likely it is that your age group is mostly married. Most of the people you meet should be married, statistically speaking. If you know so few people who are married you have to ask yourself why your experience is atypical.

Being atypical is not a flaw nor is it necessarily a problem. Reading has forced me to acknowledge that I am on the fringe of the bell curve on many questions. It's just something we need to be aware of as we try to understand our personal experiences and how they relate to the experiences and views of the larger population.