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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Texas flipping isn't likely to happen before 2024, I suspect.
Or maybe a different party will do the Republican thing and take over,..while the Dems flee to the North rather than the South
As for Texas going blue,...all they have to do is stop nominating Obama like guys,and more Clinton's,after all Bubba lost by less than 5% both times,Humphrey,Johnson,and Carter all won the place,...meaning that until 2008 it was a 6:5 lead.
And until 2003,Texas was mostly Dem on a Congressional level.
One things for sure,there's more hope for Texas than the Goldwater, "We've voted Democrat exactly once since Truman" state of Arizona.
I got mis primos working on it. Same timeframe. By 2024 we have another generation of Latino voters and a lot fewer boomers.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.No, you forget, they are True Americans and the rest of us should have shut up and let them run the country properly years ago.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
Forget them - They're in the way of real progress that we all need and desperately seek that they aren't capable of giving us - unless we fight accordingly, anyway...
It's going to take more than a few red states going blue for these idealistic changes to come to pass anyway, IMHO.
edited 18th May '13 12:42:43 PM by TheShopSoldier
Even if I had different face, I AM STILL DISGRACED.There's nothing idealistic about them. Maybe "improbable" or, time will tell, "inaccurate", but not "idealistic". Idealistic would be to suggest that the USA become one State, with a Scandinavia-style model of wealth distribution, and a public sector in which people trust, and which is held by all to very hard standards, and given the budget to achieve them. What we're suggesting is rather pragmatic and unambitious; just that the insane be marginalized from politics. There's always about twenty-thrity percent of them in every country at most, but there's no need for the rest to allow them to hinder everyone and everything.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
No... there simply isn't - agreed on all accounts and apologies for not completely understanding where you're coming from... I just can't stand stupidity ruining my nation any further, whereas everywhere else seems to be getting better and better, despite austerity hindering them for awhile.
Extremely subjective. As much shit as the US is going through right now, Canada's about the only country I'd actually prefer to live in at the moment. Cultural differences aside (many of which would be fine for a visit but I wouldn't be able to reconcile in the long term), Europe has some really, really unnerving Big Brother stuff going on, and Greece is financially fucking over the entire Eurozone because apparently the Golden Dawn fiasco isn't enough.
Hate to break it to you but the rest of the first world isn't some kind of Elysium.
edited 18th May '13 1:23:32 PM by Pykrete
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China's economy is stagnating, the Korean peninsula is heating up, the Middles East is in chaos, Iran is going nuclear, Africa is still Africa, and I predict the EU will have fallen apart by 2015.
I expect this decade to be known as the decade were everything went to shit.
edited 18th May '13 1:37:25 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016As far as I can tell, Switzerland has been doing okay on that front — there was a wave in the early 2000's to monitor emails but it didn't go very far. Good on you guys.
Switzerland has been slowly adopting CCTV
, but so far it's still pretty decentralized and has mostly been used in the right ways. While the trend is worrying, it'd be up there in places I'd at least be willing to move to.
I have a bit of a general question. Do ya'll think that the primary issue that our generation has is what government has failed to do rather than what it has done? Do you think our parents' generation had/has the opposite view?
This is of course assuming most of ya'll are post-Cold War adults like me.
"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."The answer to that question is mu
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Bobby Jindal: IRS officials deserve prison time
There are multiple problems with "our" generation—just like every generation. The primary ones that I think are affecting the US Government are that we "take our voting rights for granted (and are thus not important)" and "my opinion/vote doesn't matter". Also high on the list is "I only vote every 4 (2) years for the President (and my Congresspeople)" when a lot of local laws that effect a person directly are voted on at other times (of course, the Media not advertising/reporting on those other votes plays a huge part in that).
Yu hav nat sein bod speeling unntil know. (cacke four undersandig tis)the cake is a lie!

Speaking of Arizona and Texas going blue in the future that might not happen as soon as many people think. Immigration from Mexico has dropped to net zero and birth rates has significantly dropped for Hispanics. For example, 2003 was the first year Hispanics had more births than NH (non-Hispanic) whites in the state, that continued for the next seven years but seems to have started reversing since in 201ll NH whites were again recorded as giving birth to most babies 45.5% to Hispanics 38.9%. Obviously Arizona is still going to become majority minority but it'll take longer than expected and even after that won't make it automatically blue, because Texas isn't. What are the chances of either state going blue without becoming majority-minority?