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Chantal's avatar

I too watched the entire interview (I’m a PBD fan so it wasn’t a tall ask 😉). I understand Neil’s elaborate reasoning which in a sense is simplistically summarized by “History repeats itself”, but there is a conspicuously overlooked ingredient in this cycle - illegal immigration. I’m afraid we may be closer to Rome facing the barabarian hordes than post-Civil War Lincoln calling for reconciliation of an American brotherhood. We are in uncharted territory (at least from an American history perspective). My two cents.

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I see the return to traditional strong values coming back in a major way. You can already tell many people’s politics by their physiognomy and dress, but inside it’s even more stark in contrast. Many Millennials and Zoomers have seen firsthand the incredible destruction wrought by removing fences for which their parents never knew their original purposes until it was too late. Countless parents in these generations know personally what divorce did to them when they were young. Countless fathers are looking at their sons and not wanting them to endure the demoralizing PowerPoint HR dominated long houses and looking at their daughters not wanting them to turn into bimbos or Woke in college. The Kazakhstan model sounds fascinating and could work to a degree, but I think young men could still attend higher education or training while having an extended household arrangement. In a similar vein for grandparents watching the grandkids, as an aside, many of our housing woes are from the incredible high rate of divorce that doubles the demands for housing for older couples and often makes one spouse financially devastated (having to remortgage the house to pay for the divorced spouse’s new house).

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