The sooner America splits up into two or more countries the better I think.
It's clear the cultural difference inside America are far beyond even different countries in Europe.
I guess that should be expected given how large America is.
Cultural differences across Europe are FAR greater than anything in the US.
The problem in the US is extremists taking over the microphone.
I suppose in theory the US already has a mechanism for managing this disagreement federal and state laws.
The idea is that Europe is much more varied than the US. Yet the UK is a country seemingly made up of countries. So difference isn't enough?
And the US already has a system to allow quite different laws to be enacted.
Another difference in Scots law - no barristers but “advocates” instead.
The younger generations of Americans are extremely polarized and ready to fight. They don't agree with many of the cultural norms of the older generations such keeping politics out of the work place, or common public areas of civility. They are willing to inject their personal biases into the company and literally every aspect of their life. This is not unique to the Left either.
We are seeing some necessary materials partners send out emails signatures with literal bible verses on them to our employees with pronouns in their emails.
The under 35's are really adding a lot of pain to my life right now.
Cultural Differences in America are at the level of Hungary vs Germany/UK right now, if I had to say.
The number of single women in the U.S. is expected to increase 1.2% every year from 2018 to 2030, compared to a 0.8% increase for the overall population. This is likely going to result in 45% of women between the ages of 25 and 44 who will be single and childless by 2030.
If anything I expect the discord to get worse in the future.
Also if anyone knows what these single women might want from the market, I'm dying to know!
Play both sides: tampons and diapers.
Contraceptives are designed to prevent pregnancy. Tampons contain period blood, which happens before and after pregnancy. Diapers are for babies post pregnancy.
I don't want to come across as a proponent of an ugly situation, but I was being specific with my verbiage.
The law is currently stacked against women and makes it difficult to obtain contraception, and impossible to address the consequences of its non-acquisition or failures. Abortion isn't an option, even for rape cases. Obviously women want contraception, but it is being denied to them on purpose. The men in charge are playing the long game and shaping the circumstances to compel them to produce children.
(The conspiracy theorist in me suspects the current Adderall shortage is an intentional test run of dependency interference to see what the public is willing to put up with-- next time, it'll be a manufactured disruption in supply of chemical contraceptives.)
Your observations are correct but I was too terse-- it's not a tampons OR diapers dichotomy. Demand for both is going to increase. If there are more women, they will buy more (and better) hygiene products. If they are denied birth control, "choice" in child-bearing is reduced to a game of consistently beating the odds. When their luck runs out, they'll need diapers (and affordable childcare).
Only lesbians are safe from this nightmare. I don't know what they like to buy though.
A blue collar tradesman that is a partner in an urban business and nets 250k/yr probably going to have more in common ideologically with a guy who drives a tractor in BFE than he does with a techie or a doctor.
Russia has been making land grabs. China is dancing around the same. Both countries have roughly similar and institutionalized culture/doctrine.
Meanwhile, the west is repeatedly encouraged to consider taking steps that reduces our global footprint and leads us away from unity. Hmm...
Freedom isn't free. God forbid Wall Street have to sell off a few banana republics to the Russians or Chinese.
A lot of us are sick of playing world police and world janitor. We're sick of pissing money and lives into far-off quagmires that are only tangentially related to us. Regardless of what's going on domestically there are many who want nothing to do with foreign entanglements and many more who would be fine accepting more Russian and Chinese influence overseas if it meant getting rid of a lot of their political problems at home. It's not like the US is incapable of existing as anything other than the sole superpower. We were fine the first 200yr.
America was a rough agrarian nation compared to much of Europe, then we had a civil war, then a very tumultuous period of expansion, WWI, then a major depression, WWII, then super power time…
I am personally much happier as a super power. My 401k goes upwards much more with the US economy pushed outwards, and our jobs pay better and are much more impactful. Everything is much cheaper -especially our car centric culture- due to our shadow influence over oil nations. We’re safer with a control over the globe as opposed to being dependent on another military and that nations whims.
I don’t know what you’re thinking of, but I suspect our primacy in the globe is the main distraction keeping us from tearing ourselves apart. Nations tend to go through upheaval when their quality of life plateaus or gets worse. I like America as it is and don’t want to see further upheaval.
I can imagine the the southeast becoming completely red and the northeast becoming completely blue.