If I had a flawlessly-working Time Machine -- would *you* JOIN me for THIS Journey?

Question

(This question is being asked in more than one relevant section, to enable more people to consider it.)

I'd set the machine for 50 years in the future, in hopes of finding that the USA again had a fair-minded, sensible and egalitarian U.S. Supreme Court -- the way it was BEFORE "President" Bush **destroyed** it -- which was at last systematically RESTORING personal liberties to Americans.

If that weren't the case yet, I'd set the machine to take me farther ahead, in 10-year increments, until I found a time when that were true... OR the USA had become an unthinkable tyranny (traceable back to Bush's unspeakable mistakes).

If THAT were the outcome, I'd set it for 1974 -- the year after the Emancipation of American girls and women (via Roe vs. Wade), and the year that Nixon resigned... and then RE-live the GOOD years: 1975-2000.

Considering **NO other variables**, would YOU take that journey if you could? And for those reasons?

To "John D." -- Your total DISREGARD for individual liberties in a country that is supposed to be free is duly noted. Typical hyperconservative hatefulness. (Have you considered living in a place where most of your neighbors would be more like you? Such as, say, a Taliban-run part of Afghanistan?) (And conservatives wonder why they are so **rapidly** becoming America's National Laughingstock. LOL!!)

Answer 1

I'd like to be here in 50 years to see if we have a fascist state thanks to to the Religious Right and cons

Answer 2

Yes I would join you. But after a while I would love to set the machine to bring me back to the times before the Europeans came to this continent, before they ruined everything and I would live with one of the peaceful Native American tribes. In the history of the world, those were the people that knew how to live life. Too bad that most of us are so power thirsty and blood loving. We love out damn lands and boundaries, our politics, our technology, our dance clubs and fancy theaters. I am so sick of all of this. I would give this all up in an instant if there was any other way.

(just for the record, I don't have a drop of NA blood in me. I was actually born in Europe.)

Answer 3

Yes id go along, the shape America is in right now is too scary. Maybe we could by pass what lies ahead.
i also liked Dans answer, the 20"s looked like a big party. If i couldnt go 50 years ahead, id also like ot go back to the 60"s where Flower Power was rocking atleast until the BIG boys got in there and ruined everyones good times and intentions. Politics is just another word for "lets make a big mess" then let someone else try to figure out how to fix it , and lets not forget how FAT the big boys get while in office, thye exit much richer

Answer 4

Not the trip I'd plan for myself, but I'd love to see what's out there. If you get a machine (lol) sign me up! I'd like to see the America before Christopher Columbus supposedly discovered it. Maybe when the Vikings were trading with the Iriquois in Canada.

Answer 5

naw, id set it to 1920, and live in the roaring 20s. man id bring along allmy money to. And have a few million. Then id drive a NICEEEEEE 20's car and live in the huge houses they had back then and marry a gorgious 20's girl lol. Man where they eligent. Id have a freaken blast.

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Answer 6

Most definitely.....if we could also go back a couple of hundred years to a much simpler time when the constitution was used for something more than a flyswatter.

In that event, I would also ask President Bush to go with us so that he may learn what it means to be president of this nation instead of the treasonous SOB that he has shown himself to be.

Answer 7

I have no interest in exploring political stages of the US or any other country. I'm not interested in legal policies, either. And the years you want to visit do not interest me at all. I lived them once already!

I'd go back to regency England, visit the balls, the palace and Vauxhall gardens. I'd watch what type of clothes people wore, and how the temperature affected them. I'd see how the family unit worked and explore employment opportunities and education during that era.

I'm interested as well in pre-civil war America.

In short, sir, it appears that your interests and mine differ in that you love politics and I love to watch people and their lives.

Answer 8

I'd like to go back to 1300AD to watch the "peaceful" native NA tribes hunting each other down and torturing the prisoners to death, stealing each other's children.

I'd also like to see them massacreing the bison by thousands by stampeding them over cliffs and taking only as much meat as they could carry onm their backs and their dogs' backs - leaving the remaining tons of dead bison to rot in the Montana sun.

The 18th centry myth of the 'noble savage' was never true. Life was brutal even before the Europeans arrived with their guns, germs and steel, not the idyllic scenes we see in "Dances with Wolves."

Answer 9

I wouldnt, sounds boring... I'd go hundreds of years in the future to see how advanced everything was and quietly settle down somewhere and enjoy

Answer 10

Yes please reserve that seat for me!
If I could only turn back the clock my oldest sister and my mother would be still there and I could safe them.