About 50% of the nation embraces chaos, stupidity, ignorance and hatred….the other half is in search of knowledge and clarity…..some think that abortion, guns and religious iconography will free the country….no concern for hunger, homelessness and national unity.
There is some sort of unity that would be the myth of the ‘free market’…..that would be that a market that is free from nay with the regulations would cure the ills of society like hunger, jobs, homelessness, etc….this myth as solved none of the societal problems with the exception of the captains of the free market….they have sucked all the profits possible out of the myth and left the rest of the country struggling.
Since about 1980 we have been watching our beloved country circle the drain.
There has been a wealth of finger pointing as to why this is happening……it is a feckless ineffective president or a do-nothing Congress or those damn lobbyists or…..like I stated a wealth of assigning blame.
All these assumptions are wrong!
The real problem is the American people.
The American people through their voting habits have created the division and the hatred that is the cancer on the American political landscape.
The election of 2022 the damage could possibly unprecedented….
“Our democracy faces an existential threat—the very real possibility that the outcome of an election could be ignored and the will of the people overturned by hyperpartisan actors,” 58 groups including MoveOn.org, Protect Democracy, Public Citizen, SEIU, and the Sierra Club assert in an open letter.
“Since the 2020 election, we have seen unprecedented and coordinated efforts to cast doubt on the U.S. election system,” the letter states.
“These efforts have taken many forms,” the authors explain, including “widespread disinformation campaigns and baseless claims of election fraud,… intimidation of election officials and administrators just for doing their jobs, new state laws to make election administration more partisan and more susceptible to manipulation or sabotage, and outright violence.”
Noting that “exaggerated and unsubstantiated fears about voter fraud have been a vote suppression tool for some time,” the letter argues that “these efforts took on entirely new ferocity with the advent of former President [Donald] Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ regarding the 2020 presidential election.”
In Saner Thought 
We exist, or not, because “We, the people…”
I wish I had that optimism…..it is not there any more…..chuq
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This is my worry, a very real worry!! Can’t breath freely … “The election of 2022 the damage could possibly unprecedented.”
I so agree…..the damage is too deep….Thanx for the reboot……chuq
Most welcome, dear friend!! … and the damage continues unabated!! I just can’t … 🙁
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What is America’s Problem? The question way to broad. Narrow it down.
Many countries have slowly drifted to the Far Right in the last decade. Let’s hope that America doesn’t become the next one.
Best wishes, Pete.
Dear Chuq and beetleypete,
I have perused this post entitled “What Is America’s Problem” and wanted to comment on the issues broached by the post. Here I am to communicate with you as follows.
I commend Chuq for his effort in highlighting the various outstanding issues and ramifications surrounding America, not to mention systemic racism, or rather, systemic inequality, systemic discrimination and systemic corruption.
We can also agree that the ongoing chaos inflicted by the Trump presidency finally culminated in the infamous riot at the Capitol. You and I can be justified for being cynical, snide, snarky and facetious in characterizing Trump as the symbolic messiah who is going to lead his misguided supporters to glory on Earth and the promised land! It is often futile to reason with such misguided folks. Perhaps only when the country truly becomes autocratic or fascist will they wake up, but then it will be too late.
Needless to say, due to misinformation and disinformation, 2020 had been a difficult year, not to mention having to deal with the pandemic. It was all quite surreal, perhaps in some ways more bizarre than ghosts and the paranormal (not that I believe in such things). One could indeed say that we live in interesting times, but often for the wrong reasons.
2021 is nearly gone and the GOP is still on trial and has fared no better and seems to be getting (much) worse.
Consequently, any reasonable person can conclude that the USA has been plagued by ignorance, dogma, falsity, blind faith, spiritual stagnation and epistemological impasse . . . . .
In any case, it is going to be an arduous task to solve these outstanding issues, because saving and rehabilitating the USA aside, we also need the political economy of saving the planet. Yet the entrenched and insidious issues of plutocracy have loomed even larger, thus continuing to thwart many efforts mounted to save the nation and the planet. Whilst Pluto has been demoted to a dwarf planet, the planet of America, so to speak, has already ascended to plutocracy. Social and economic polarizations can further exacerbate the issues of wealth, and such polarizations are increasing for the following reason: The USA is very much plagued in varying degrees by misinformation, disinformation, post-truth politics, demagoguery, plutocracy, oligarchy, ochlocracy, kleptocracy, kakistocracy, narcissistic leadership, neoliberalism and globalization.
The underlying opposition is not so much between the Democrats and the Republicans as between the rich plutocrats and the rest of the population. The Democrats need to (re)form their party to unite the 90% of the people living at an entrenched economic and political disadvantage in order to deal with the Plutocrats. In any case, it is going to be a very tall order for Biden (or indeed anyone of any political persuasion) to turn things around. It would have been much easier if some Republican senators had been far more honest and incorruptible, for they have been very greedy, uninspired, cowardly and lack criminal, moral and political accountabilities. It is all quite a big mess in danger of getting bigger still. Even a global pandemic still cannot unite folks in the USA and wake them up. Perhaps it will take an even bigger crisis to do so, such as a series of climate change disasters.
The best and most dedicated amongst the likes of us are also inveterate teachers of everlasting, transcendental wisdom to save humans from themselves, their self-interests and their destructive ways. I often even have to coin new words to do so. The latest examples are my three neologisms “Misquotation Pandemic“, “Disinformation Polemic” and “Viral Falsity“, as discussed in my extensive and analytical post entitled “💬 Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: 🧠 Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity 🦠“.
Then there has been worsening inequality, rendered all the more acute and dire by the rich and powerful via various overt and covert impositions. Social and economic polarizations can further exacerbate the issues of education and wealth, and such polarizations are increasing for the following reason: The USA is very much plagued in varying degrees by misinformation, disinformation, post-truth politics, demagoguery, plutocracy, oligarchy, ochlocracy, kleptocracy, kakistocracy, narcissistic leadership, neoliberalism and globalization, as discussed and analyzed in great detail in my said post, which you can easily locate at the Home page of my website.
I look forward to your visiting the post and reading your thoughts and feedback on the various issues broached there. By the way, whenever you visit my blog, I would like to recommend using a desktop or laptop computer with a large screen to view the rich multimedia contents available for heightening your multisensory enjoyment at my blog, which could be too powerful and feature-rich for iPad, iPhone, tablet or other portable devices to handle properly or adequately.
The various issues that chuq has highlighted aside, there is a great deal that can be said regarding the vulnerability and fragility of democracy. The final section of this extensive and analytical post, named “Denouement: Democracy, Education, Legislation & Sustainability“, specifically discusses this vulnerability and fragility.
The age of Anthropocene could indeed be a very short one, as humanity seems to be plunging headlong into creating and facing a ghastly future, as explicated in my said post, which you can easily locate at the Home page of my website, which is best viewed on a desktop or laptop computer with a large screen. I look forward to your much esteemed input.
Wishing both of you a productive week doing or enjoying whatever that satisfies you the most!
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle
I appreciate your insights and your visit…..the trial ting the judge made me think of the Chicago 7 and the farce it was……I fear 2022 will e worse. chuq
Pete I think it is too late we are well on our way. chuq
We can definitely “Do Better…”
Shira
But will we? chuq
We will if enough of us refuse to give up.
Idk hope so…..chuq
That’s what my WiP is about, if you have time to swing by on Wondering Wednesdays. If I can find a publisher who’ll agree to let it be distributed online free of charge, I’ll start querying it soon.
Love to have your 2nd draft feedback if you have time for this communal effort.
Shira
will do as soon as a get a new laptop….tablet does not work well with my fingers. chuq
I can send you a pdf to read, if you like. Or point you at the link to download it.
That would be nice….thanx chuq
Click to access dobetter1st50pgsedited.pdf
Thank you I will read it when I get up and running…..chuq
Take your time, I’m likely (just fyi) changing Phase II to be called something other than Adults/Adulthood (need something catchier than Service Cooperators/ion!!)
Shira