The death of P&R and what it says about where we are.

[CJD]

(03-04-2023, 09:57 PM)samhain Wrote: It's difficult to deny that this subform has been dying a slow death for the last 6 months or so.  

It's not for lack of relevant topics.  

We're as close to WW3 as we've been since the 1980's.  We have a president that barely keeping his shit together if at all.  We have two candidates opposing him that are quite possibly as authoritarian as we've ever seen in this country.  Shifts in law and public discourse have been seismic.  

Still, crickets here, for the most part.

This is a bad symptom, IMO.  

To me it's a sign that we've all accepted reality.  Both sides are dug in so deep that there will be zero chance of compromise for the foreseeable future.  People would rather see the country die a slow, painful death than see the other side get credit for keeping it alive.  

Good shit, people.  We all get what we deserve in the end.

Honestly, I took it as the exact opposite.

I figured that the people here were rational enough that we all agreed that the crazy stuff is crazy and, beyond the crazy stuff, there isn't really anything new going on right now.

When Trump was president, there were people here who felt the need to defend him but now that he and his entire party has just gone off the deep end, I haven't noticed very many openly defending him anymore.

And Biden, while he's clearly not all there and a bit cringy, hasn't done anything wild enough to merit discussing because he's had, relatively speaking, a pretty uncontroversial presidency (unless you're a conspiracy theorist). At least recently. The student debt stuff has already been discussed and he hasn't done too many major things in the last 6 months.

But who knows, maybe I'm making some bad assumptions haha.