Things we cannot be bothered by anymore

@curiousjim 

Excellent - and then of course there is "punches above its weight" - what weight?

And this ties into the infamous loophole in all YT reviews, "best in its price class" - seems sort of limiting in that other products "punch above their weight" eh? 

@carlso63 I think most people would agree about the intrusion of politics into so many aspects of life.

I blame it on the voters. Stop voting for control-freak, narcissistic, far right and far left politicians who are unable to process and address the views of 90% of society. Vote for throughtful and maybe even compassionate centrists/moderates willing to listen to more points of view.

That’s the only way. Otherwise we will all live in the h-lll we ourselves as voters  create trying to always stick it to the other guy and get our own way, no matter what the effect it may have on others or society as a whole.

Very selfish!!!!!! I guess it's  simply a part (luckily not the whole) of human nature that we should all learn to get a handle on.

Cheers!

No land with very polarized ideologies has stayed as a unified land/entity for too long (in the history of humanity)..

Major powers constantly produce disinformation campaigns to weaken each other in that regard (divide & conquer). Relatively simple minded critters that form the majority of a population don't have much choice in the matter, except fall for it..requires more intuition and iq to look through it. 

Some cultures are more resilient, some are not.

Vote for throughtful and maybe even compassionate centrists/moderates willing to listen to more points of view.

@deep_333 I agree.  It's hard to get diverse populations to get along much less see eye to eye.   But that's pretty much what this country is about and supposedly makes it great and a place diverse peoples want to live in...all that melting pot stuff.  Maybe we are doomed to fail in the end, or maybe we truly are "great" and make it so.   Nothing lasts forever.  THat much is for sure.

If the US splits in the near future, it will probably be based on right wing or left wing ideology...not religion, race or ethnicity.

The US is not some one of a kind cultural melting pot. Melting pots have existed in different parts of the world for thousands of years (India, Africa, etc).

@deep_333 I agree. It’s hard to get diverse populations to get along much less see eye to eye. But that’s pretty much what this country is about and supposedly makes it great and a place diverse peoples want to live in...all that melting pot stuff. Maybe we are doomed to fail in the end, or maybe we truly are "great" and make it so. Nothing lasts forever. THat much is for sure.