TheUnpopularOpinion
Here in America, our country is suffering from debt, a lack of jobs & bogus laws being passed by our Government to further take away our freedoms, our rights, and our way of life.
But instead, we're more focused on Sexuality related things & Race.
Good Going America. We're focusing on something so minor.
I agree with you 100%.
Our generation has completely bought into identity politics and as a result I think it has severely harmed this country.
The sad thing too is that young people do not get this. They think sexuality and race issues are more important than economics and civil liberties. In their mind the struggle for gay marriage is more important than trying to shape economic policy to give people more access to higher paying careers, or figuring out a way to reduce the outrageous growth of healthcare costs, or getting corporate lobbying out of politics and reshaping campaign finance laws so our politicians are no longer bought by special interests.
I mean what I think is really telling is the fact that the left wing in this country wants to get rid of the first amendment, they want to get rid of the constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech. If you look at polls regarding the issue of hate speech laws, most Democrats/liberals want laws that ban "hate speech" by making it illegal just like they have in Canada and in Europe.
This is just speculation on my part but I believe this phenomena stems from the fact that people are extremely uninformed. People don't read anymore, and well let's face it you don't need to have any substantive knowledge of anything to have an opinion on race or sexuality. All you need is an opinion and to occasionally get morally outraged when someone on TV says something "offensive."
Whereas when it comes to the issues you brought up, you actually have to have some knowledge to actually comprehend discussions about economics, jobs, fiscal policy, debt, etc, etc. I think if young people really had an idea of just how bad the future is going to be for them, they may actually stop considering gay marriage or not offending black people as the number one important issues in this country. They may finally pull their head out of their a** and start tackling fundamentally more important issues that impact everybody in a life changing way.
Don't hold your breath though, because I doubt this will happen. Perhaps it takes a situation as bad as Greece for young people to finally get just how important economics is. Fortunately or unfortunately, it's a double edged sword really, our country is nowhere near as bad as Greece is.
Have you been paying attention to what's going on in Greece? If you haven't I recommend you to pay attention right now because the next 3 days are going to be very very interesting.
A TLDR of what's going on in Greece is that Greece has to pay it's bondholders on Tuesday and all month Greece has been trying to negotiate for another bailout because they don't have the money to pay the creditors, however they've failed to get another bailout. So it's very possible that Greece is going to have to default on it's debt in which case if they do all I have to say is PAY ATTENTION to see what happens because something crazy could happen.