Bored Druid Thread: The Next GenerationFollow

I see a red-headed man with a man's man of a beard, bare-chested with a stick of some sort in one hand - it looks like you ripped a branch off of a tree - and he's screaming something but I can't tell what. His face is painted dark blue and white, and in the other hand I see . . . a coffee cup?

I just see an alcoholic. Just be thankful there's no Welsh in there, then he would be a ************ alcoholic.

Oh yeah, those chavs are real sexy...
























*shudder*

You want Irishmen or Scotsmen anyway, way more sexy accents.

On a sidenote, I find this whole government shutdown thing to be mind boggling.

It's not really surprising. You have a party that can't agree with itself in the majority position with incapable leadership.

They can't get a majority on their own motions, because the super conservative wing vetoes those. They can't get a majority on a compromised initiatives, because the leadership won't bring them up, because they are trying to garner favor with the super conservative base. The democrats don't have a straight majority or control of the House, so they can't get a majority.

So.

Underneath it all I see:

We have too many "safe congressional districts" where one party is almost guaranteed to win. Meaning you have moderate Republican vs Nutjob in the primary; with either one having a chance to represent the district.

So many states have closed primaries now, so you don't get the more moderate unregistered voters voting anymore.

This North vs South dichotomy has been there since we've been a country, with us lacking any kind of outside "bad guy" to scare us into working together these differences become all-consuming.

It's getting more and more difficult to reconcile different sources of information, we aren't all watching the same 3 news stations anymore.

American culture is very competitive, especially amongst ourselves.

In the end you're left with a fairly unsustainable mess. They're going to have to solve this one way or another eventually. We keep getting used to greater and greater dysfunction, and eventually they'll actually have to cause serious problems before anyone cares. That's what worries me 10-15 years down the road.

Edited, Oct 2nd 2013 1:12pm by someproteinguy

Also, I kind of doubt that this will be a problem in 10-15 years. Half the social conservatives will be either dead or too old to get out and vote by then anyway.

Edited, Oct 2nd 2013 10:15pm by Aethien

More or less.

Hopefully the younger and more reasonable generation can take over the country before the baby boomers drive it into the ground.

They're not even focusing on that part (i.e. it isn't really even mentioned). It's more about all the debt and the lack of responsibility on the other side forcing the Republicans' hands.

Also remember winner takes all right? So 51% runs the chamber of congress and 51% of that can run the party. So you only need about 26% of the people to think a compromise is unreasonable to shut things down, and we have a lot of rednecks over here.

Like you said this is where "winner takes all" gets stupid.

Edited, Oct 2nd 2013 1:32pm by someproteinguy

On a more happy note, Oregon is quite pretty.

I'm more concerned with this song and dance continuing for next month's debt cap and the possible worldwide economic panic from the threat of the USA not being able to pay back bonds.


I'd love to go there sometime, it looks to me like a good coastline should and I can stand a little rain (I get a bit over 2/3rds of what the Oregon coast gets yearly).

Huh, I thought Oregon was one of the inland states.

Geography: I teach it, but I do not know it!