by exploited » Tue Oct 13, 2020 2:38 pm
I mean, all of these trends existed prior to COVID. These aren't new trends, they have existed since at least 9/11. Pointing them out isn't negative, it is what it is. I think all of these problems, with the exception of climate change, can be fixed, but that requires coming to terms with how things have changed. And I genuinely do not think Americans have done that. The people left posting here are in the top 25% of political thinkers in the US, and most of you haven't and won't adjust your perceptions of your own country, even in the face of overwhelming givens. Saz brags about Americans killing tyrants after the US has spent seventy five years arming them, and the last twenty years as the tyrant. Galt talks about being top dog or whatever, as if anybody envies your decision to spend a trillion dollars on a year on a military that is used primarily to bully small and meaningless countries. Spider is Spider. You're talking about unemployment numbers as if that changes the incredible theft of wealth from the middle class. Etc.
Somehow, even after a two recessions, a global pandemic, 9/11 and the near-total obliteration of the middle class, you guys still aren't adjusting. I don't know what to say other than to point it out, even though I know the only response I'll get is being called negative or the proud owner of an inferiority complex.