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Finally, we should all probably calm down about politics. Most of the proposals we argue about so ferociously will have only marginal effects on how we live, especially compared with the ethnic, regional and social differences that we so studiously ignore.

This is the smart middle-right. I'd vote for it.

I like it.

Social fabric? I ain't got no social fabric. I ain't even got social threads. If I promote your social fabric, will you ensnare me in it, or will you leave me the fuck alone?

Is it too late to be Swedish?

squirell nutkin;654034 wrote:

Is it too late to be Swedish?

It is for me, but it wasn't too late for my kids, that's why I threw in with team Sweden. Even an Irishman can be rational if there is a snappy Swedish chick involved... yeah right, rational,... I believe I was thinking a little further down the brain stem.

[COLOR=Blue]good culture and good human capital programs.

[COLOR=Black]Who determines what "good culture" is? I find the culture and human capital much more humane away from the northeast centers of education and urban "sophistication."
I do like the Swedish Bikini Team though.
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Therefore, the first rule of policy-making should be, don’t promulgate a policy that will destroy social bonds. If you take tribes of people, exile them from their homelands and ship them to strange, arid lands, you’re going to produce bad outcomes for generations.

This is important, for those people who think the civil rights abuses of yesteryear don't affect life chances today for those groups involved.

I propose a constitutional ammendment that all American citizens must become Asian.

DanaC;654099 wrote:

This is important, for those people who think the civil rights abuses of yesteryear don't affect life chances today for those groups involved.

But but but. . . .

Roughly a century ago, many Swedes immigrated to America. They’ve done very well here. Only about 6.7 percent of Swedish-Americans live in poverty. Also a century ago, many Swedes decided to remain in Sweden. They’ve done well there, too. When two economists calculated Swedish poverty rates according to the American standard, they found that 6.7 percent of the Swedes in Sweden were living in poverty.

classicman;654149 wrote:

But but but. . . .

I don't remember that Jim Crow laws targetted Swedes.

Spexxvet;654151 wrote:

I don't remember that Jim Crow laws targetted Swedes.

Revisionist history ;)

Griff;654047 wrote:

It is for me, but it wasn't too late for my kids, that's why I threw in with team Sweden. Even an Irishman can be rational if there is a snappy Swedish chick involved... yeah right, rational,... I believe I was thinking a little further down the brain stem.

See, I went German. Then I find out that Swedes are Germans in human form. :smack:

Spexxvet;654118 wrote:

I propose a constitutional ammendment that all American citizens must become Asian.

Take THAT, premise of this article!

xoxoxoBruce;654031 wrote:

Social fabric? I ain't got no social fabric. I ain't even got social threads. If I promote your social fabric, will you ensnare me in it, or will you leave me the fuck alone?

True. Unlike his diseases, Bruce's fabric is NOT social.

:D

Sheldonrs;654225 wrote:

True. Unlike his diseases, Bruce's fabric is NOT social.

:D

Social disease? Who says that anymore? You're dating yourself Shel.
(Just don't get drunk and take advantage of yourself.);)

DanaC;654099 wrote:

This is important, for those people who think the civil rights abuses of yesteryear don't affect life chances today for those groups involved.

At some point you have to end the mentality of Victimhood as a way to define who you are and who you want your children to be.

squirell nutkin;654286 wrote:

Social disease? Who says that anymore? You're dating yourself Shel.
(Just don't get drunk and take advantage of yourself.);)

I didn't take advantage of me! I was asking for it, damn it!!!!

TheMercenary;654460 wrote:

At some point you have to end the mentality of Victimhood as a way to define who you are and who you want your children to be.

An essential, and one certain of our opponents (and much of the Democratic Party) miss in us and lack in themselves.

That is enough to make you vote against every Democratic candidate in range.