Look around the country today. This isn't a time of crisis. It's the new normal.

[Bucky]

Things seem kinda shitty, as you read through the headlines. But this is what the world is like now.

Deal.

[MadHound]

2. Doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to change matters.

That is, after all, how a democracy works, at least nominally.

[Fumesucker]

3. Nah, these are the good old days

[MrSlayer]

4. I'll always blame the working class Reagan voters.

They gave it all away and were more than happy to do so. Fools.

[Shankapotomus]

7. +1

Damn straight.

[Junkdrawer]

5. Welcome to Imperial Decline. If you analogize an Empire to a Star....

we're well into the Red Giant phase of over expansion and will soon start the imminent collapse to White Dwarf status. (How that will work out in a nation with an infrastructure this vast is anyone's guess.)

Pax Romania became too expensive and unweildy...

Pax Britannia became too expensive and unweildy...

Pax Americana is becoming too expensive and unweildy...

[canoeist52]

6. And the shittyness is man-made. It doesn't have to be this way.

[ananda]

8. Human-made.

..

[canoeist52]

9. Well the ratio of gender ecomic evil says otherwise.

[Bucky]

11. Lame

Women help pollute. Don't deny them their fair share, Canoeist



Carly Fiorina's come a long way, baby

[samplegirl]

10. Yeah, most people who have

a job...have nothing to look forward to these days other than the weekend if they have it off.