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Originally Posted by ferrets_bueller
Concerning the abortion graph: This is a cultural clash that will never, ever be settled. Nor does it appear to me to be an issue that will decide a national election, unless and until Roe v. Wade is overturned by sending the issue back to state legislatures.
I proffer a different issue, and a graph, that I find depressing to the point of existential despair. According to Larry Summers: A simple linear trend suggests that by mid-century about a quarter of men between 25 and 54 will not be working at any moment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-american-men/
(I lack the skills to copy the graph itself into this text.)
Sure, others may quibble, but if he is even close to correct the trend will tear American society apart. |
Yeah, but why should we discuss this when we can argue about about the "war on women," the "war on Xmas," who should use what bathrooms, whose "religious liberty (whatever the fuck that is) is being violated, who needs trigger warnings and safe spaces, who's a sexist, who violated email protocol, who had ties to Putin, what constitutes "cultural appropriation," or what the cast of Hamilton thinks about a VP who believes gays can be "cured" of their genetically wired sexual persuasion.
See a trend? We'll do almost anything - divert ourselves with every form of decadent and frivolous debate possible - to avoid looking at the graph you posted.
What elephant? I see no elephant. Let us stop talking of this elephant. It's getting in the way of me asserting all of my grievances!
