DU Poll: Forward vs. Backward Thinking ...

[RKP5637]

I carried this over from a comment I just made and decided to do a poll. Well, polls are fun!

Here's the background:

Someone made a post on DU, or someplace, that the US is stuck in the 1800's, that often the root of feelings/decisions refers backward rather than forward. Some countries are forward thinking as they move forward. The US is backward thinking as it moves forward. That, struck me as a prolific statement, and the more I look at things going on, it really is a throwback as we try to move forward. We have to carry sooo much baggage.

It seems to me at least that many controversies today are deeply rooted in the past, that a major portion of the population thinks in the 1800's.

Well, here's the poll question.

Do you think the US is backward thinking as it moves forward, whereas some other countries manage to be forward thinking as they move forward?

I answered yes, because I think that is the root cause of the majority of the conflicts in the US today, the inability to collectively shake the past and more on to forward thinking as we move forward.

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	No
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	Too complex to be so simply stated.
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	I'll drink to that!
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	Don't know, too many variables.
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[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I picked "too complex" because...

it lumps the US as one entity, when it is the right part of the polarized half that wants to take us back to a time that, I think, only existed in their imagination (or for a very short time).

Same in many countries - right wing - austerity; progressive - more of a "you need to spend to give people money to get us out of this" thinking (Keynesian?).

But in general, change is very hard and scary for many people - I think it is the very progressive minority that has to often drag a country forward despite great resistance.

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, it's a tough one. One could almost do a thesis on it ... n/t