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The more diverse we are as a population, (Original Post) Mr.Bill Aug 2021 OP
"When we act as one." Ocelot II Aug 2021 #1
never, we'll never act as one reality1 Aug 2021 #2
never is a mighty long time qazplm135 Aug 2021 #4
Subsets of the population will act as one. Mr.Bill Aug 2021 #3
There are advantages to diversity, but mainly diversity of education & experience, not ethnicity Klaralven Aug 2021 #5
True. Mr.Bill Aug 2021 #6
"The more we get together... ymetca Aug 2021 #7

Ocelot II

(120,001 posts)
1. "When we act as one."
Thu Aug 19, 2021, 07:13 PM
Aug 2021

When is that going to be, considering that maybe 40% of the population doesn't like it that we are becoming increasingly diverse?

reality1

(123 posts)
2. never, we'll never act as one
Thu Aug 19, 2021, 07:19 PM
Aug 2021

sorry to be negative but the country, this earth is facing a new reality

qazplm135

(7,465 posts)
4. never is a mighty long time
Thu Aug 19, 2021, 07:23 PM
Aug 2021

but certainly it's going to take a few more generations to get there.

Each new generation of kids is a little more tolerant than the last.

We will get there.

Imagine someone from 1799 coming awake to see a Black man as President, or an openly Gay man in a high position of governmental power, or a Black and Asian woman as VP.

They'd lose their mind...even the best of them. Well, Franklin might be cool with it. lol

ymetca

(1,182 posts)
7. "The more we get together...
Thu Aug 19, 2021, 07:54 PM
Aug 2021

.. the happier we'll be!"

The grand experiment of majority rule, balanced by inalienable individual rights, is the inexorable global struggle of humanity.

In order to "extend the franchise", as it were, nothing less than a global direct democracy will do. Global telecommunications is just the start.

So far we've come, so far to go...

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