America has become a nation of grinding anger, viciousness, violence and utter hopelessness. Like I said in my previous post, the institutions are in disarray, trust does not seem to exists and I am not even sure if we live in a democracy anymore. I feel like a total idiot when I extol the virtues of democracy in the US History classes I teach.
What happened?
There are divisions in society that are not just racial and it goes even beyond socio-economic. Those divisions have become faultlines. The so-called "elites" are basically idiots and the laws of the nation are essentially ignored or interpreted by people in positions of trust in ways that benefit them and them only.
And you want to know why Trump gets the attention and votes......
Back in 1998, after Bill Clinton's "I did not have sexual realtions wtih that woman" lie that was the dictionary definition of perjury, I saw idiot pundits write that the republic still stood. Now, they are wondering, after another Clinton legal misadventure, who Trump, with his course speech and rhetoric, is doing so well in the polls.
Simple....the Clintons created Trump.
But lets look at American society in general.
Anger, road rage, constant idiocy in government and business.
This stuff spread. You give me this "law and order" speech and we see sanctuary cities violate federal immigration law with no repercussions. We see people punished for violating un-American practice of Political Correctness (ie Nazism) even though the First Amendment protects unpopular (and sometimes stupid) speech. For some reason, liberals hate the Second Amendment and want to confiscate guns as they hide behind security details. We see the Fed hand out free money to banks to inflate the stock market and gas stations raise fuel prices on a whim (not that much lately...lots of angry customers shouting at gas stations lately...)
It looks like the Roman Empire in the late fifth century.
Use history as a guide and turn around, America!
WE are better than this.
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