The poll said what is my greatest fear for our society / planet? I read this as human society as a whole, not just America, and global warming has the potential to severely alter the lives of billions of people. You can laugh at me for that if you want, but I certainly won't take you seriously.
LOL...I am far from being a liberal. Whether the melting of the polar ice caps is man made is subject to debate. The fact that they are melting is measurable and not subject to debate. If this continues, you won't have ocean front property in Arizona, but any planned trips to Galveston may require a submarine.
A revolution would be a direct attack on our government. Presumably, a successful revolution would result in a new constitution and set of laws. An armed insurrection would be a direct assault upon the very Constitution they are sworn to defend against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.
The most likely catastrophic scenario is probably a global pandemic. Imagine if the The Black Plague could have traveled by airplane. Add in the increased possibility of one started intentionally by a psychopath or extremist group.
Homosexual men performing acts like sodomy and anal fellatio in the privacy of their own homes legally as a married a couple. This has implications for society and the direction it's headed. We used to stand for something and have a real identity. We used to be a nation of god fearing people. Well now it's an orgy where ANYTHING goes. Even interracial which is frowned upon. There aren't wmds in AFGHANISTAN, but there are ******* in my backyard. C'mon home boys, you're not gonna find what you're looking for over there. Everything is headed downhill and guess what? I don't want to be a part of it. No other Christian I know does but that's besides the point, because it has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with the implications. Straighten up em sideways roads and everything will fall into place.
I fear the moment we make alien contact..... Luckly we have this guy... Spoiler ....... ....... .......
The steady diminishing of our personal freedoms by extremism, paranoia, fear beyond reason, the hypocrisy of politicians who use those fears for their own gain, talking out of both sides of their mouths, accusing their opponents of being "weak on terrorism," etc., etc., and then when they are "strong," spouting off about how their opponents are eroding those freedoms, freedoms that they themselves worked so hard to diminish. So we see even progressive pols, like Obama, doing things that he said during his election campaigns that he would never do, in reaction, in my humble opinion. That, and many other things in the same vein, like the absurd spread of drug testing for even the most menial employment, something that is a gross assault on our rights as an individual. "We" seem to be very busy screwing the society that we have spent so much blood and treasure to preserve and pass on to the future, and far too many shrug and say, "who cares?" You know what really pisses me off? When someone says, "If you haven't done anything wrong, why do you care?" The dumb stupid bastards. They haven't a clue to what they are losing. Then take a very, very long vacation in another country, bigot, one of several decades duration. Thanks in advance.
I would probably go with China and then Russia following close behind it. Both of these countries actively try to undermine the USA every chance they get. China already is the greatest economic threat to the USA and should be a major concern to all citizens who care about their jobs and livelihood.
So you want us to revert back into roving tribes of nomadic mud people? Hunters and gatherers? Any basis of civilization requires a government. Even the sedentary farmers proceeding the hunters and gatherers of ancient times had some semblance of organization. Collectivism isn't inherently bad.
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That our president won't issue a statement on the anniversary of an event from a war that happened 60+ years ago.
I'll cheat and have 2 This is what I'll consider my greatest fear of SOCIETY. Most the choices listed are from faulty ruling parties and people's shortsighted over-consumption. This one is THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES sociologically contributing to their own civilian decline WITH help of the big government and economic factors. I can agree how that one issue there, everything can get worse under its umbrella. Somehow that can easily lead to detachment about anything. Young people college and back arent a most accurate look at where things are cuz they're not even in the work world paying taxes yet or have families. But can see the trend of the "values". There's disappointment and there's some hope signs, but I see that its still if not MORE about looks and goods in place of substance. Maybe its the wealth inequality thing cuz some ignorant bastards and got some really bright kids. (Controversially, ANECDOTALLY - I don't know how we can hear that women are influential in 75% of economic purchases or something. Then its still all the "patriarchy's" fault for things. Like women havent had a direct hand in this rampant materialism lol. Not its not putting burden and blame on women, just not taking away any light bit of culpability either) Now I'm just whining but will continue in another thread
I'm assuming that you aren't asking this question in response to my post about your comment. When did it all start to fall apart? Long before 9/11, although 9/11 was a huge factor in increasing the destruction of our personal freedoms. I'd say the very beginning, at least from my personal perspective, began with the murders of Jack and Bobby Kennedy, and Dr. King. From a country bursting with prosperity and optimism and an enormous increase in the progressive direction the country was clearly headed in, and I remember this, being there at the time, the country became filled with despair and fear of the future. The brutal political crackdown on demonstrations during the '68 Democratic convention, fueled by Robert Kennedy's murder, caused Humphrey to lose a narrow election. So we got Richard Nixon, who would be called a liberal by today's GOP. Then came Nixon's mad Watergate adventure, which destroyed the idea of free and fair government at the highest levels of the United States. Cynicism became rampant. Distrust of the government increased during a very, very unpopular war after Kennedy's death, with hundreds of thousands of our young people, including some of my friends, being sent to Vietnam to fight a civil war we had no business getting involved in, one the French fled, breathing a sigh of relief at washing their hands of Southeast Asia. Civil unrest, something I was involved in, was the reaction to Vietnam. The millions of parents seeing their kids being sent to Vietnam to quite possibly die, or become maimed, went from thinking the war was a justified response to "communist expansion," to seeing it as a useless, futile, idiotic and dangerous enterprise. Many joined the protests in the streets. Sure, most stayed home and watched everything on the news, but not all by a long shot. That was another driver of the diminishing of our personal freedoms. We saw peaceful demonstrators beaten, and worse. We later discovered that thousands were being watched by government entities like the FBI for simply being peaceful complainers about government's policies. That helped drive the later intrusion on our fellow citizens rights, because after all, "We've done it before." I could go on, but those were the early drivers of the now common refrain, "Who cares? Why should I bother to vote? The politicians are all the same, so why should I stand in line to vote, when it won't make a damned bit of difference." Which leaves the doors wide open for what we're seeing today. People don't vote. Presidents of both parties are far too often elected without a majority of registered voters, and millions don't bother to register. So we see something like 30+ percent elect our leader. Congressional districts are so gerrymandered now, with the districts fine tuned to the nth degree by modern technology, that it is damned near impossible to defeat an incumbent, unless it's in a primary. That drives extremists like the far too influential "tea party" wing of the Republican Party. So again, people wonder why they should bother to participate in our political process, which is absurdly dangerous for our system of government. Now our extremist Supreme Court majority are busy raping our personal freedoms and making it possible for the Corporate America and the richest Americans to literally buy elections. You know, stuff like that. I don't have a solution, except to say that we need a massive increase in the public's participation in the political process, and progressives in the highest courts in the land. That would lead to political reform that we desperately need.
So your answer is no. Thanks. I appreciate you showing me the last 30 years. Come back when you can show me the last 200-300.
