I'd go so far as to argue you need to find what comes next after the hand-held smartphone. It could be a smaller, more intimately worn device (think smart glasses, or a smarter watch, or even something implanted), with more processing done off-device.
As someone who is literally that background (from a moderate Republican family in the suburbs of Philadelphia) I can say the Democrats definitely picked up my vote...
Actually no, it's more accurate to say the Republicans lost it.
(I don't know how my family members voted--we're far too WASPy to do anything but keep it private), but I suspect my parents stayed with the GOP while my siblings and I went to the Dems (I voted Hillary for President and GOP everything else. Turned out to be a miscalculation)
At any rate, it seems there weren't enough of us to outweigh Pennsylvanians who continued to vote Republican or who converted to voting Republican.
It seemed pretty acrimonious and left scars that haven't healed to this day.
I mean, I grant that in the grand scheme of things (and certainly in comparison to how Spain bungled this), you are correct, the UK handled it as well as possible.
They do, and it has been proven successful. I think it is unlikely that Tesla will be able to deliver high-quality cars while maintaining high efficiency if they continue like this.
The British had wanted to continue their period of rule in Hong Kong as the expiration date neared. It was a subject of negotiation between China and the UK in the 1980s. They wanted British rule or even some kind of joint administration. Even Thatcher (hardly a shrinking violet when it came to using force to get her way) couldn't get a deal to continue British rule in Hong Kong. China made it perfectly clear that the British would be leaving in 1997.
And so, for better or for worse, they came to an agreement in the Sino-British Joint Declaration. The British were essentially "consensually kicked out" (as the Brits might say, "mustn't make a fuss" ;) )
It's worth noting that the Qing Dynasty ceded Hong Kong Island and Kowloon to the UK in perpetuity. The lease was for the the New Territories, without which it was generally accepted the city would not be viable. Hong Kong was (and still is) dependent on the Chinese mainland for imports of natural resources such as fresh water, so if the Chinese decided to play hardball the British had few options. And that's not even considering the possibility of China deciding to retake Hong Kong by force.
> Even Thatcher (hardly a shrinking violet when it came to using force to get her way) couldn't get a deal to continue British rule in Hong Kong.
Deng actually told Thatcher that if britain didn't leave, china would invade HK and unify by force. Thatcher actually asked the US if they would protect britain from china and we said no. And that was the end of britain's hope of keeping stolen territory.
Not "railing against" to be fair to your original point but this study (FiveThirtyEight thinks it's sound) says millennials value democracy far less than their predecessors.
As a % of people who think it is "essential" to live in a democracy:
The question is this just age (I've seen qualitatively similar things periodically about young vs. old people off and on for decades) or if it's a shift over time in attitudes of young people.
