As shown at left, there are nations whose policies towards education are such that young people are actually encouraged to graduate from college. Voters in these countries believe that their societies will be better and stronger if their citizens spend four years reading the world’s most important books, learning to write well, coming to understand science, and asking themselves the great questions that have been troubling humankind since we lived in caves.
The truth about the Unites States, and this is the case in so many areas of human endeavor here, we simply don’t care. Whether it’s education, climate change mitigation, women’s rights, gun laws, or the disintegration of rule of law, our leaders are leading us nowhere.
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are exceptionally good at focusing the MAGA base on problems that don’t exist.
What bathrooms should trans people use? Well, before we work ourselves into a frenzy, let’s ask ourselves if this is an issue that is really harming the good people of this nation.
Keep in mind that 60% of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck and are struggling to afford groceries.
I would say that the meme here is “semi-true.”
It’s certainly true that he/she will be repairing broken relationships with our historical allies, but I don’t think that will be too terribly difficult. The rest of the world will be popping champagne corks the second Trump’s gone.
The simple answer to the question here is that we’ve become a nation many of whose people think, “I got mine. Go die.”
Now, how did this happen? That’s more complicated, but I suggest that, as I’ve believed since I was in my teens, we’re living through the endgame of free market capitalism.
The rich have gotten richer and have taken an ownership position in our lawmaking processes, so as to take them from millionaires to billionaires. At the same time, the rest of the U.S citizenry has become so poorly educated and desperate that they’ll believe that the people who harvest our fruits and vegetables are stealing our jobs and driving up the cost of housing.
Just a generation ago, Americans were proud that their country led the world in promoting democracy and moral fortitude. Now, we stand for racial hate, greed, cruelty, and war criminality.
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