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I have felt it for a while.. as if the planet is gearing up to explode. Everything has become so negative, how can it not get to a person? The "News" stories alone have always been depressing and I don't always watch. There is so much that is wrong or are unable to change. I am an empathetic person, feeling things deeply since I was a child, so I absorb a lot. I never mean to dwell on the negative, but it's just there.
I have felt it for a while.. as if the planet is gearing up to explode. Everything has become so negative, how can it not get to a person? The "News" stories alone have always been depressing and I don't always watch. There is so much that is wrong or are unable to change. I am an empathetic person, feeling things deeply since I was a child, so I absorb a lot. I never mean to dwell on the negative, but it's just there.
exactly. Everryone I talk to or meet is very negative. I mean you can have a conversation with them but it turns into complaining and negativity every time. I mean life can be tough but man everyone just seems down these days.
9/23/15. I have often wondered why our congress hasn't done a dam thing to get the worst president in history out of office. They have plenty of legal ammo to have done it along time ago. Yet he gets passes on everything. He cant have that much dirt on everybody who doesn't agree. Or does he? He sure came out of nowhere to get his job. The pope arrives later this month 9/23 or 9/24 and there have been predictions about this for ages. One made hundreds of years ago said pope and tall dark man meet 9/23 or 9/24. Spooky..
I am not a conspiracy theorist but man some good stuff about 9/23. If your curious just google 9/23 and see the predictions make hundreds of years ago and a bunch of stuff that may be just coincidence but wow, gave me the chills
I think reading some real history - not the glossed over kind - would put your mind at ease. Everybody always thinks they're living in end times and today we have a massive media industry that preys upon that fear and spins stories to make it seem like it's new.
People used to die rioting at their workplace for higher wages. In the 1940s riots erupted because of how poorly black people were being treated. People were enraged, but we just hear about WWII.
They won't tell you, for instance, Reagan took just as much heat for signing a deal with the USSR as Obama is taking over Iran, with unilateralists claiming he was empowering the enemy with nuclear weapons. All that gets washed out in the re-telling but since you're seeing it play out day by day for Iran it seems far more traumatic.
To wit, that nearly half of Americans who don't pay federal income tax you see as part of the collapse of society often simply don't make enough to qualify for a tax rate because of the standard deduction and/or qualifying for exemptions because they are elderly or working families with children.
Interestingly, Reagan dropped the tax burden of the lowest earners as a way to stimulate their economic power without big government programs, yet it's primarily conservatives who complain about these same people not paying taxes today.
Those on payroll do still pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, regardless.
Is it just me or does it seem like our society is approaching a boiling point?
No hope in politicians
Everyone claiming their a victim
people flying off the handle every where you look
political correctness gone wild
50% of this country doesn't pay taxes and it seems to be getting worse
few people under the age of 35 can afford to own their own home
major shortage of well-paying jobs
An increasing aggresiveness from poor people
Wages have stagnated
Millions of people in their 20s and 30S owe 10-20 years of student loans
radical people that want to hurt innocent people because of their own hatred (see black lives matter)
our infrastructure is in shambles
everyone seems stressed out and occassionally goes overboardmin workplace violence.
I mean I can go on and on.
I am an optimistic person, but things REALLY seem messed up right now.
Agree or disagree?
I agree with most of what you said except for political correctness (not sure where you stand on black lives).
People much malign political correctness but all PC is is respecting other people in the way they are asking to be respected. It's about not being intentionally or thoughtlessly abrasive to one another. Why can't people do this?
I think professional comics should get a special dispensation for being politically incorrect because the whole point of comedy is to say something insane you don't necessarily believe in for a laugh. So there is ambiguity built in to the profession. But I'm speaking of only professionally recognized comics. Regular people should not try comedy at "home" and I think those who do can be rightfully called out and their beliefs questioned and challenged.
Turn off Fox News and stop listening to hate radio.
All news media focus on the negative.
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