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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2070186)

I think that's a whole lot of malarchy. Women working is not some new phenomenon. Blaming today's ills on both partners of a marriage working for a living doesn't add up at all, since this has been a thing since the Great Depression - and most people in the Villages hadn't even been born yet. Those who were, would probably not even remember it - they'd be in their 90s now and they would've been under 10 at the time.

You can't blame it on the internet either - it's been around since the 1980's. Social media actually predates the world wide web; the first dial-up bulletin board system went online in 1978.

Can't blame cable TV - that's been around since 1948 and was common in the 1980's.

I blame it on people who insist that something other than their own personal responsibility is the cause of it. You are responsible for the information you choose to absorb. There's nothing stopping any of us from checking sources, asking questions, challenging beliefs. If you don't do these things, then that is your choice - but it's also your choice to deprive yourself of knowledge, and you have no one to blame but yourself when you discover that other people might have different opinions based on different information that they've acquired.

I agree with about 85% of the post. As to the single or 2 persons working in a marriage, I don't think you can just go back in time and say that there were plenty of women working in the 1920s or whenever. Obviously, in centuries ago tribal times, men, women, and children ALL had to work. The way I see it is that around roughly 1980 the US middle class started (for various reasons) to decrease in numbers. Many families realized that to KEEP their former living standard, keep paying their mortgage, and maybe sending a child to college......that they NOW NEEDED 2 salaries.

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Originally Posted by defrey12 (Post 2070430)

Thank Washington for perpetuating the divisions…because they know if we quit fighting with each other, they’ll be next on the chopping block. It is not in their interest for us get along.

I am sorry, but my opinion is that Washington has no interest in causing divisions between various US groups. Washington is a mishmash of many, many legislators and their staff. Also, the money and influence peddlers. The end result is an organization that MOSTLY resembles America as a whole. It may skew a little bit toward the high end of society. Wealth is a factor everywhere in the world.
........There is always going to be a central government of some kind. Even if anarchy could take over. It would be short-lived. To have a country, you MUST have borders. To have these borders, you need a central government to protect them.

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Originally Posted by Joe C. (Post 2070525)

The reason we can't all get along in the sandbox, is because someone is always crapping in it.

Good one!

"why can't we get along, and move on, why oh why"

...said the spider to the fly :)
...said rabies to the dog :)

Great post! It makes perfect sense to me, because MONEY, and the frantic race to accumulate the biggest pile of it, is what drives the world.

Great post, MartinSE. It makes perfect sense to me, because MONEY, and the frantic race to accumulate the biggest pile of it, is what drives the world.

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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive (Post 2069941)

"Social" media. The ultimate oxymoron.

Actually, by definition, that would not be an OXYMORON. Not sure what it is (other than an annoying place that people hang out). :1rotfl:

We can first start with "Countries". Through the ages Nations usually fight over one of two things, 1. Land or 2. Religion vis a via the current war by Russia. Religions have been a significant cause of wars. Also there are hundreds of reasons that humans set up selfish justification benchmarks for their existence. All of these cause anything from minor to very significant personal reasons to behave badly between each other. We just had "women's day" and how much better women can be from men, Religions has led to wars through the ages. Of course politics plays a significant role in this game of who is better. You also have rich vs poor. In net we are driven to prove we are better than the next person/group and this leads to the society we live in today. The reasons is because we either want what the other person has or believe their beliefs are wrong and misdirected and we want to change them. These are age old problems which have
led us to live in the mal functioning world of today. These theories can continue to be expanded but I'll leave it here. :popcorn:

PennBF, some of your points may be valid, but "women's day" was not about women being better than men, but about women being better than they were 102 years ago. It was always about equality and not dominance.