celticpyro:

A lot of people seem to attribute America’s touch-starved culture to Puritan standards of conduct but I think it was the opposite. I think ever since we became so sex-crazed suddenly you can’t even put an arm around someone’s shoulder without that being seen as “putting the moves on” meanwhile Puritan children could openly call their fathers “daddy” and no one batted an eye so like…who’s the real culprit in “no one’s allowed to touch because touch is sexual” here?

Do we still have a Congress or is it becoming a parliament?

The point is, that sort of theory of voting sounds a lot more like a
European parliament than our American democratic republic. Are we voting
for the people we believe will best represent our individual values and
serve our specific needs or the ones who will just represent one more
party-line vote in a closely divided dance in the D.C. swamp? If it’s
the latter, then we’re really losing something which made the great
American experiment such a unique model on the world stage. And that’s
kind of sad.

and what did we install in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the mistakes that made both those places so intractable

Do we still have a Congress or is it becoming a parliament?