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America in fifty years. Opinions?

Posted on 02/19/2015 10:25:00 AM PST by LouAvul

Some of us remember America of fifty years ago. Vastly, vastly different than what we see now.

In your opinion, what will America be in another fifty years?


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KEYWORDS: 2065; america; dead; deadandgone; futurism; predictions
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To: LouAvul

It took a Jimmah Cahtah to give us the Gipper.


41 posted on 02/19/2015 10:43:11 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: LouAvul

42 posted on 02/19/2015 10:43:58 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: LouAvul
Welcome to Costco, I love you !!

Idiocracy, 500 years early. . .

43 posted on 02/19/2015 10:44:02 AM PST by Salgak (Peace through Superior Firepower. . . .)
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To: LouAvul

It will look like Dodger Stadium after a doubleheader with the Giants.


44 posted on 02/19/2015 10:45:45 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: LouAvul
Something like the USSR in the fifties or part of the Caliphate. Or perhaps the US will surprise hell out of me and do the Article 5 convention without provoking a paramilitary response from the Sultan and change the course of the country. The one indispensable change is the repeal of the 17th Amendment. That would have to be followed up by the repeal and elimination of Civil Service and most of the government agencies and all their programs. I don't expect any of that to happen. The country is made up of mostly uneducated rent-seekers pushing for the total state.

Or we could have that civil war with the military breaking up or at least not siding completely with the Sultanate and a breakup into several separate Nations. Only the second alternative would maintain the USA as a major mover int he World. The rest would invite the wannabe empires of Russia and China and Islam to try to swoop in on us.

45 posted on 02/19/2015 10:47:10 AM PST by arthurus (it's true!)
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To: LouAvul
1. Once great cities like NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles will still be uninhabitable from the Iranian nuclear attacks of 2017.

2. Southern states will be part of Mexico.

3. Russia will own Alaska and will be exploiting its oil resources.

4. The remainder of the country will be controlled by various islamic clans or bands of pro-Democracy pioneers with skirmishes over resources being commonplace.

46 posted on 02/19/2015 10:49:10 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Hiroshima, after the blast.

Could be a good thing - Hiroshima is now thriving.

47 posted on 02/19/2015 10:50:30 AM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Resolute Conservative

A dead civilization with less than third world status. We will be Balkanized into warring sects of different cultures.


48 posted on 02/19/2015 10:53:03 AM PST by formosa
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To: LouAvul

Vastly different from fifty years ago? Only someone who wasn’t around fifty years ago would say such a thing. There was television, computers, telephones, cars ....

If you want something vastly different, try the difference between 1910 and 1960.

Watch the TV series Mad Men to see how little has changed in the last fifty years. I don’t see the next fifty as being anywhere near as radically different as 1910-1960.


49 posted on 02/19/2015 10:53:03 AM PST by sparklite2
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To: tgusa

We are still being torn apart by race riots. Perhaps they just have not arrived in your neighborhood yet.


50 posted on 02/19/2015 10:55:02 AM PST by formosa
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To: LouAvul

Gone.


51 posted on 02/19/2015 10:55:46 AM PST by boomop1 (Term limits is the only source of change.)
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To: LouAvul

America in fifty years, at this rate, will not exist.

Hawaii will be taken over by China.

California and other parts of the Southwest will either be an independent Hispanic state complete with Aztlan-sponsored ethnic cleansing or it will be part of Mexico.

Texas will be independent again.

The US military will be second rate. Maybe even third rate.

China will dominate the mining and manufacturing sectors and the remainder of the US will be subject to a mercantilism relationship with China.

Or we could elect a conservative next year and see this country prosper through the end of the century.


52 posted on 02/19/2015 10:56:14 AM PST by MeganC (You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
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To: LouAvul

If continuing on this path … destruction, or at least becoming one of the weakest countries in the world.


53 posted on 02/19/2015 10:58:23 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: sparklite2

I’m 61 and have been a huge follower of technology and science fiction. I feel like I live in the future.

i.e. I strongly disagree.


54 posted on 02/19/2015 10:58:31 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: LouAvul

2 possible paths- watch “X-Men Days of Future Past” for the alternatives


55 posted on 02/19/2015 10:59:04 AM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016 (for 16 years of conservative bliss))
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To: LouAvul

I think God is going to get fed up with the whole lot of us and will destroy the world.


56 posted on 02/19/2015 11:00:36 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: cuban leaf

Strongly disagree with what?


57 posted on 02/19/2015 11:01:10 AM PST by sparklite2
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To: sparklite2

That little has changed. It has drastically changed.


58 posted on 02/19/2015 11:01:44 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: sparklite2

LMAO

Seriously, you cite a TV show as an accurate portrayal of American life in 1965?

You weren’t around then were you?

LOL!


59 posted on 02/19/2015 11:01:48 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: LouAvul

Worse.


60 posted on 02/19/2015 11:02:10 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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