WHy Is The USA SO “Stuffy” ???
shailynn
They never tell you what you need to know.
Not a day goes by with a topic about Tijuana. FKK clubs come up often, I personally know what you can do in Canada...
I know this has been discussed before but why do you think the United States is so restrictive?
The newest fear is it “helps fund terrorism” which is probably a bunch of BS, but there also the legit concern of sex trafficking. I used to think that was just a scare tactic, but now I never go across the Ohio turnpike now without seeing at least one Federal Government Trafficing vehicle sitting in the parking lot of a reststop (can’t remember the official title on the side of the SUV).
So what do you guys think? Just political, legit concerns to clap it down? Or just another thing the government doesn’t want to mess with regulating so they outlaw it?
I know this has been discussed before but why do you think the United States is so restrictive?
The newest fear is it “helps fund terrorism” which is probably a bunch of BS, but there also the legit concern of sex trafficking. I used to think that was just a scare tactic, but now I never go across the Ohio turnpike now without seeing at least one Federal Government Trafficing vehicle sitting in the parking lot of a reststop (can’t remember the official title on the side of the SUV).
So what do you guys think? Just political, legit concerns to clap it down? Or just another thing the government doesn’t want to mess with regulating so they outlaw it?
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They even have younger generations thinking the government will take care of them and that if the government gives them free stuff, they will come out ahead. The more the government takes from everyone, the less everyone has left and jobs decline. We are moving towards or were moving towards a socialist nanny state and the leftist socialists who control the media can't stand any interruption to their plans to create a communist US.
I suspected she would have appointed Supreme Court justices who would do away with gun rights and carets possible civil war in this country as guns were confiscated and possible war with Russia. Putin did say if she was elected, she would be the last US president. I thought that meant Russia would retaliate with nuclear weapons and go to war with Hillary. I heard Russai also has anthrax weapons on missiles that would kill millions in the US. When Putin says someone will be the last US president, I thought that was a serious threat but hardly anyone mentioned it later.
Back on topic, most people have been ok with letting the government gradually take away rights or haven't done enough to fight back or elect officials who believe in business rights and state rights. Almost half the population would have been ok with gun rights disappearing that would have led to a possible civil war. The left thinks that wouldn't happen. I think they are wrong. I'm sure they have plans to do away with more individuals rights. Being able to visit strip clubs is an individual right. Already some have out restrictions on government spending on food stamps, etc, restricting what money can be spent on. If we go to a cashless society, everyone might get an ID card that could become restricted. Tax everyone, allocate money back to the people on cards for food etc. then restrict what they can buy and sell. Strip clubs operate with cash and no one is interested in supporting strip clubs to get elected. My thoughts.
Also don't forget that some of the settlers here were too crazy for the Church of England. So think about that. That and the Protestant Work Ethic and money. It's not Catholics. That explains the right.
The left? Women's liberation, the sexual revolution, co-ed workplaces with career women. Also the VietNam war, the draft, and resetting of academia around the time. We've been changing values and the left created a echo chamber where being feminist meant one had to adopt ALL the views. And one view is some career women, whether married or not, with children or not, 40 y/o or even younger, resented the idea that some other women, somewhere else, could sell her pussy and set a price for pussy. And that made the career women feel de-valued.
That 40 y/o childless career women is threatened by those women. That's driving the left.
And yet politicians in both political spectrums get wrapped around an axle due to sex scandals. Go figure.
Broad US culture has traditionally been immersed in the "protestant work ethic", which has a moral component tied in even for those who aren't deeply religious or church-going. It has been so pervasive that it even bled over to non-protestant cultures within the US.
I grew up with kids who were raised by both liberals parents and conservative parents. We were all taught that sex outside of marriage is shameful and sinful.
I'm not as versed as someone like ATACdawg (who was a minister), but understanding of Protestantism is it has this *bug* where the sins are sort of treated equally where Catholics historically didn't do that. So one ends up with some really bad sins (murder, stealing, other gods before Him, pedophilia, being a fake war hero) are treated roughly the same same as other sins (prostitution, homosexuality, being a patronizer).
@Papi_Chulo & @Call.Me.Ishmael
But how do we separate the good parts of the Protestant Work Ethic, the part that makes us a strong capitalist country, from the moral parts? Can you? Or does that destroy the former?
I've wondered about that, too. Sometimes I'm worried we're "getting rid of the 'old ways' these days" and maybe the conservatives were right and there was a point to the old ways?
Generally, I think the Catholics of mainland Europe prior to 16th & 17th Century, had it right. Prostitution was sinful and those involved were encouraged to repent, but it was tolerated and treated as a lesser evil. I.e., avoidant of corruption (or even rape) of virginal girls (marriage stock). And perhaps a necessary evil. I think @rickdugan wrote his Masters thesis on this.
Shit. I think I just sold myself on Catholicism, lol!
We don't. At least not through direct action. Large cultural and moral shifts take time.
Not for or against prostitution, but there is so much more to life, than fucking whores.
I remember Max Weber being discredited. I think the real takeway was the values and work ethic of your parents and grandparents. Which to enact social change with regard to moral puritanism will take time. Thanks.
- I’m just kidding! But I’m willing to bet both of mine did.
I know my great uncle had a mistress that he bought a house for. She survived both him and his wife. We used to visit and place over with her (called her Grand Aunt Nina [name changed]) as young kids. I think that was more common in the "old country" (a/k/a Italy).
Chaken and Egg, right? It seems at some point the chakken lays a mutant egg. Then things change.
It’s two crazy useless groups who hate each other but strangely get to the same place in the end.