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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sun Nov 24, 2019, 09:32 AM Nov 2019

The present is a foreign country



You know the old saying that history is a foreign country? Heh. Today is a bloody foreign country. Listening to the radio, reading the news, reading blogs… there is no equilibrium. In a country where we are used to 90% of the people more or less agreeing in the direction the nation should take 90% of the time – irrespective of the way they vote at the ballot box – we are witness to the end of this era. Now – logic and reasoned debate has gone out of the window and the further the ‘mainstream’ push far left and far right – the more it is evident it is that the present has become a foreign country...
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The present is a foreign country (Original Post) Soph0571 Nov 2019 OP
This breaks my heart. secondwind Nov 2019 #1
I know the feeling Soph. CanonRay Nov 2019 #2
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