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Jamaal510

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30. These are the questions I'm expecting in history books:

Wed Nov 20, 2013, 09:45 PM

Nov 2013

-how did cable news lose its integrity?
-why did the U.S. go so long as one of the last remaining developed nations without guaranteed basic health care?
-why did the Drug War go on for decades?
-how did Obama experience the most filibusters out of any U.S. president in history?
-why did people who weren't wealthy or owned businesses/corporations oppose top tax hikes and environmental regulations?
-why did it take so long for some sports teams to change their names from racial slurs towards Indigenous people?
-what led to the GOP becoming irrelevant in national elections?

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Does anyone else ever wonder what the history books will say about this era 50 years from now? [View all] Brigid Nov 2013 OP

The books will be in Chinese and will not be kind. nt onehandle Nov 2013 #1

Why would history books be in Chinese 50 years from now? Gravitycollapse Nov 2013 #4

Why wouldn't there be people or history books in 50 years? Gravitycollapse Nov 2013 #2

You have to have a literate populace to publish and read books Brigid Nov 2013 #5

Ummm...global historical literacy rates are the highest they've ever been. Gravitycollapse Nov 2013 #10

That's what history books will say RobertEarl Nov 2013 #18

Watch History2 or the Weather Channel fadedrose Nov 2013 #8

Excepting the literal annhilation of the surface of the Earth, in 50 years... Gravitycollapse Nov 2013 #11

What, you are only 25!! You poor darling fadedrose Nov 2013 #13

+25 RobertEarl Nov 2013 #26

No, I'm 24. Gravitycollapse Nov 2013 #31

That hasn't been true in this country. pscot Nov 2013 #40

Heh heh. Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #44

That's pretty accurate IMO. Also, the asshole factor seems to be increasing all of the RKP5637 Nov 2013 #12

I belief in ET's too. No sightings yet fadedrose Nov 2013 #32

Oh, they're here on DU. PETRUS Nov 2013 #33

Yep... fadedrose Nov 2013 #34

No, none yet, not via folded space, etc. With the billions of potential ..., IMO, there is RKP5637 Nov 2013 #41

Creative speculation fadedrose Nov 2013 #48

Doesn't matter. The books won't print what happened fadedrose Nov 2013 #3

It will undoubtedly be online TBF Nov 2013 #6

I see 3 options. 1) all is gone. 2) Idiocracy rules. 3) Intelligence has overcome stupidity. RKP5637 Nov 2013 #7

What do the history books say about 1963? MineralMan Nov 2013 #9

Hey, my hyperbolic slide ruler still works! LOL RKP5637 Nov 2013 #16

I still have my Pickett double log rule. MineralMan Nov 2013 #19

Yep!!! You have to have pretty fast fingers on a slide ruler to keep up with a calculator! LOL n/t RKP5637 Nov 2013 #21

They'll wonder why so many people were willfully ignorant in the so-called "Information Age" Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #14

They'll call it the Mental Fart era B Calm Nov 2013 #15

Yep, gaseous brains. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2013 #17

They'll say whatever the Koch Brother clan will want them to say. nt valerief Nov 2013 #20

Gilded Age 2.0, probably Recursion Nov 2013 #22

Do you regard "50 years" as very far into the future? Because it ain't. WinkyDink Nov 2013 #23

Not really. Brigid Nov 2013 #25

It was the Cyber-era a transition time from the industrial age, which required CK_John Nov 2013 #24

"The one gleaming point of hope that people of all different walks of life latched onto..." TlalocW Nov 2013 #27

That works. Brigid Nov 2013 #35

They might call this the Second Gilded Age, starting with the ascension of Dubya Bush...... AverageJoe90 Nov 2013 #28

I really don't wonder... cilla4progress Nov 2013 #29

These are the questions I'm expecting in history books: Jamaal510 Nov 2013 #30

"Decline", "Fall", and "Empire" will be popular words in book titles. Tierra_y_Libertad Nov 2013 #36

50 years ago was 1963 - The President was going to be shot - the Beatles had not yet appeared Douglas Carpenter Nov 2013 #37

History is written by the Victors Chief D Nov 2013 #38

They SHOULD say that the US went crazy after 9/11 Bonobo Nov 2013 #39

And then the Republican Party ate itself and disappeared into demographic oblivion Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #43

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!! DOOOOMED!!! WE ARE DOOOOOOMED, YOU FOOLS!!!! Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #42

a population 'dumbed' down by media with a heavy percentage of ass-kissers and morons! dmosh42 Nov 2013 #45

Books? Where we're going, we don't need Books! JustABozoOnThisBus Nov 2013 #46

The Crazy Years hobbit709 Nov 2013 #47