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Not merely the USA, as e.g. Brexit shows - this is happening everywhere, across the majority of the world stage, and in a targeted manner especially the Western nations. Even before Putin, things were set in motion, and we knew it at the time even yet did nothing to halt it, like a cancer growing or a virus infection, and because it presents as "us" we leave it alone, until it is ready to burst out and reveal its true intentions, when hiding is no longer necessary. To illustrate, one example seems to be the creation of Fox News, but surely that is not the only such thing.
Right now the one that comes to mind is the voucher systems for schools.
Channeling public money into private schools. It drains the education system.
As Reagan’s dismantling of the mental health system showed - once you destroy a public service, you can’t really rebuild it. The buildings are gone, the land repurposed. Now there’s a ‘homeless crisis’ as people do not get adequate care to participate in society.
And when our core populous is educated with a corporate agenda or a religious agenda, who will be capable of upholding the U.S. on the world stage? Will we innovate? Will we keep up military?
Rail transit in the 50’s and 60’s, followed by privatization of buses - leading to mass pollution, economic waste, segregated communities, and a divided society.
Bans on research, or underfunding public research, allowing corporations to tell us that cigarettes, PFAS, PCBS, BPA, Glyphosate, and all number of substances we consume(d) daily are safe. Leaning to massive public health issues.
Cuts to social safety nets, the attacks on the library system, Trump-era underfunding of the IRS, banning the post office from providing banking/passing laws and appointing people who specifically are trying to destroy the postal service, repeal of the FCC fairness doctrine - I could go on, but … sigh.
I think I need to hug my wife. I’m glad we aren’t having kids.
YOUR kids would, I suspect, be better off than most kids in the USA - bc having parents that actually give a damn helps so much:-).
^This right there - this is about all that we have going for us. We provide protection and direct services, which isn't nothing, nor is it never improperly abused (more's the pity), but it is something. Otherwise, what, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter/X - these are the "innovations" that we share with the world? Along with Hollywood and whatever art like fashion we can get people to care about?
Anyway, things look bleak right now - bc, you know, they are:-D - but also remember: our media lies to us. Constantly. "If it bleeds it leads", but conversely all the dry boring stuff simply doesn't get reported, which is a travesty. Like how Biden made happen a MAJOR breakthrough in railway workers, taking six months of negotiations but eventually delivering everything that they asked for iirc including scheduling issues and PTO and sick leave (the dedicated latter is minimal but the former is flexible and can be used for anything) - that's hella impressive, and considering how no other president has done such for railway workers specifically addressed a huge gaping hole in our nation's infrastructure, with that form of transportation being so crucial to us all, mostly in ways we don't even take any time at all to think about. And yet what did the media say about it? So when they preach doom & gloom for like climate change and the economy, setting aside how those are truly accurate, keep in mind that it's also extremely biased.
Things won't be the same as before - they won't be as good as when life was easy. And maybe that's for the better even bc damn did the generation that is putting us into this mess get complacent and entitled. But we'll move forward regardless. And it's not all bad - e.g. all the fantastic medical breakthroughs, which keeps happening even if they are for like highly specific diseases, yet for those that have them it makes all the difference, and also every advance helps scientists learn and makes possible future ones. 😁
I admire and appreciate your optimism and sentiments.