Are you concerned about replacement?

[Jarod]

I believe in equal status under the law for everybody,

but quite candidly, my life has been very Italian-American centric because I find that to be by far the most comfortable.

Diversity as a strength has been an ideological mantra, and usually a well-intended one.

In reality, I've never found it to be true.

We're not a melting pot. We're a mosaic that clashes pretty garishly from what I can see.

We are a mosaic evolving into a melting pot. Are your children more or less Italian American than your grandparents were?

[RB 60]

No!

I am not being hypocritical in any sense of the word!

Fuck you, lizard. I wouldn't piss in your mouth if you were thirsting to death.

[Doc Dutch]

We are a mosaic evolving into a melting pot. Are your children more or less Italian American than your grandparents were?

He's an isolationist who wants to subdivide the nation into the minorities and other groups he hates leaving only him and the people he does like, presumably the Italians, on their own. Clearly it's a delusional fantasy.

[NiftyNiblick]

We are a mosaic evolving into a melting pot. Are your children more or less Italian American than your grandparents were?

The third American born generation does indeed seem less ethnic than the even the second, never mind the immigrants themselves. Good point.
Still, it's not ethnic diversity, in the long run, that makes us as dysfunctional as we are.

Our ideological diversity is untenable. It's like putting incompatible fish in an aquarium. It doesn't work out well,
and frankly, we're not working out well. As a coastal social democrat, co-existing with Middle American conservatives does not seem like something that can or should endure.

[Jarod]

He's an isolationist who wants to subdivide the nation into the minorities and other groups he hates leaving only him and the people he does like, presumably the Italians, on their own. Clearly it's a delusional fantasy.

What he wants and what is reality are two different things, people who do not want to live a lie need to learn that.

[Doc Dutch]

What he wants and what is reality are two different things, people who do not want to live a lie need to learn that.

Agreed. It's just one reason why I think, although he's educated and intelligent, that his gears are slipping upstairs.

[NiftyNiblick]

My ears are itching.
Fuck the internet. I'm making a sandwich.

[NiftyNiblick]

By the way, China, Czechoslovakia, India, Ireland, Korea, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Arab Republic, and Yugoslavia are all nations that have partitioned within the past century or so.

If they could do it, why can't we?

American "exceptionalists" are delusional in the belief that we are so different and special. Right now, we're special needs if anything.

[Doc Dutch]

By the way, China, Czechoslovakia, India, Ireland, Korea, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Arab Republic, and Yugoslavia are all nations that have partitioned within the past century or so.

If they could do it, why can't we?

American "exceptionalists" are delusional in the belief that we are so different and special. Right now, we're special needs if anything.

All by force. How many lives were lost in the process.....not that you give a fuck.

[Rune]

Reagan had the strongest economy in modern American history up until Trump before the Dems in blue cities and states intentionally tanked it through artificial and unnecessary shutdowns.

Too dumb to respond to.

[Geeko Sportivo]

Fuck you, lizard. I wouldn't piss in your mouth if you were thirsting to death.

Sounds as if you have a lot of serious hate issues!

[Jarod]

The third American born generation does indeed seem less ethnic than the even the second, never mind the immigrants themselves. Good point.
Still, it's not ethnic diversity, in the long run, that makes us as dysfunctional as we are.

Our ideological diversity is untenable. It's like putting incompatible fish in an aquarium. It doesn't work out well,
and frankly, we're not working out well. As a coastal social democrat, co-existing with Middle American conservatives does not seem like something that can or should endure.

I understand your feelings, I could be wrong but what I think we are experiencing is the last gasp of baby boomer political power. They are dying fast.

[NiftyNiblick]

All by force. How many lives were lost in the process.....not that you give a fuck.

It doesn't have to be by force. It shouldn't be, but what happens happens.
Even if lives are lost, however, the lives of the vast majority who survived would be substantially better if America were partitioned--certainly in the Blue States, anyway.
The extreme, Taliban-like social regression brought about by Red State interference in our government has become insufferable. We need to remove you like the malignant tumors that you are.
Live in your preferred Handmaid's Tale fashion in your own sorry states.

[Doc Dutch]

It doesn't have to be by force. It shouldn't be, but what happens happens.
Even if lives are lost, however, the lives of the vast majority who survived would be substantially better if America were partitioned--certainly in the Blue States, anyway.
The extreme, Taliban-like social regression brought about by Red State interference in our government has become insufferable. We need to remove you like the malignant tumors that you are.
Live in your preferred Handmaid's Tale fashion in your own sorry states.

You're fucking clueless if you truly believe that it can't be done without force. Name a single instance when it wasn't or didn't end in violence.

Thank you for putting the proof in your post.

[NiftyNiblick]

I understand your feelings, I could be wrong but what I think we are experiencing is the last gasp of baby boomer political power. They are dying fast.

That's certainly an interesting perspective. However, there are baby boomers, myself included, very clearly on both sides of the fence.
I'm a 1946 first-wave baby boomer, and I'm, a hard-left economic progressive, even if not woke on touchy-feely issues.