I FIND it atrocious and beyond embarrassing that we remain the only real country (the Vatican does not really count even though it is a "sovereign") without divorce (except as is usually the case in the Philippines for the exceptions — so divorce is fine for Muslims and Filipinos married to foreigners, plus if wealthy and uncontested, with annulments as a thinly veiled stand-in for it). This farce in my view is emblematic of one of the biggest and most regressive problems we have as a country. The inability to deal with problems and issues settled everywhere else. It is like these issues never die and amazingly are discussed with nearly complete cluelessness. Like the experience and arguments honed and worked out elsewhere over decades and in some cases, centuries, these issues are rehashed here like they are novel, with reasons and points as if still current but ancient history in many other places and at the very least worked out and settled everywhere else or nearly so. How can we move forward when we can't even move past issues settled literally everywhere or mostly everywhere else? It is like we are fighting over whether to rent a Betamax or VHS in our streaming era. For many issues we talk about potential solutions that have long been discarded as they have moved on to further iterations.

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