Opinion The Fall of America is here

[moosaev]

This article by George Packer is depressing, but has to be read by anybody who still loves this country. America as we know it is gone. Technical term for what we are is a “shithole country”.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/

 

[The Big Bang]

This article by George Packer is depressing, but has to be read by anybody who still loves this country. America as we know it is gone. Technical term for what we are is a “shithole country”.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/

lol @ "loving this country"

Treat people the way you like to be treated, no matter where you live.

...which is hard for people who hate themselves...and project it onto EVERYONE ELSE, like narcissistic Frump.

 

[genecop]

The original idea of America fell a long time ago...

 

[Bloody Pulp]

Bullshit, it’s summer

 

[skysolo]

Bullshit, it’s summer

It's April so it is the spring time on the Northern Hemisphere.

 

[The Diplomat]

lol @ "loving this country"

Treat people the way you like to be treated, no matter where you live.

...which is hard for people who hate themselves...and project it onto EVERYONE ELSE, like narcissistic Frump.

"The administration squandered two irretrievable months to prepare. From the president came willful blindness, scapegoating, boasts, and lies. From his mouthpieces, conspiracy theories and miracle cures. A few senators and corporate executives acted quickly—not to prevent the coming disaster, but to profit from it. When a government doctor tried to warn the public of the danger, the White House took the mic and politicized the message."

 

[skysolo]

Our federal government gave over 4 trillion dollars to the richest of the richest corporations and people. The Fed gave countless trillions to the market in imaginary money. Now there are talks of letting states fail so they can file for bankruptcy and get rid of pensions.

Covid-19 is just making it more apparent.

 

[The Big Bang]

Our federal government gave over 4 trillion dollars to the richest of the richest corporations and people. The Fed gave countless trillions to the market in imaginary money. Now there are talks of letting states fail so they can file for bankruptcy and get rid of pensions.

Covid-19 is just making it more apparent.

REPUBLICANS talked about letting Democratic states go bankrupt... Blame them for that comment.

 

[moosaev]

lol @ "loving this country"

Treat people the way you like to be treated, no matter where you live.

...which is hard for people who hate themselves...and project it onto EVERYONE ELSE, like narcissistic Frump.

huh? I honestly have no idea what point you’re trying to make

 

[DivineMind]

Great article. Thanks for posting. His narration is largely accurate, but glosses over the massive failures and bait and switch that were the Obama years.

 

[ithinktheymad]

The United States is about money and always had been. The pleasantries are disappearing though.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

This article by George Packer is depressing, but has to be read by anybody who still loves this country. America as we know it is gone. Technical term for what we are is a “shithole country”.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/

A writer for the Atlantic thinks the US is a shithole. Lol. I think they are a shitty vestige of the great magazine they once were.

 

[Zazen]

Great article. Thanks for posting. His narrative style is largely accurate, but glosses over the massive failures and bait and switch that were the Obama years.

Well that didn't take long

 

[DivineMind]

Well that didn't take long

I say that as a progressive. The guy is just giving lip service to the idea that Obama 'tried his best but was hamstrung by Republicans', which is false. Obama was as neoliberal as they come, he admits it himself. And that ideology is to blame for what America is today.

 

[ShinkanPo]

This is it.

 

[The Big Bang]

huh? I honestly have no idea what point you’re trying to make

My point is that it was obviously fucked up before COVID-19.

 

[moosaev]

Great article. Thanks for posting. His narrative style is largely accurate, but glosses over the massive failures and bait and switch that were the Obama years.

I agree, the Obama years confirmed that the US was fully in a state of corporate capture. Nobody in Wall Street went to jail, no meaningful reforms on campaign finance, putting Wall St folks in charge of Treasury, etc. But, Obama at least attempted to alleviate *some* of the symptoms of the national disease, but he never truly pursued a cure.

 

[moosaev]

My point is that it was obviously fucked up before COVID-19.

That’s the whole point of the article I posted you goof

 

[skysolo]

REPUBLICANS talked about letting Democratic states go bankrupt... Blame them for that comment.

LOL taking a side when they both are corrupt. Both of them signed that stimulus. Congress makes 170k a year and they are on vacation while so-called essential workers are making $10 an hour and have to go to work.

 

[moosaev]

LOL taking a side when they both are corrupt. Both of them signed that stimulus. Congress makes 170k a year and they are on vacation while so-called essential workers are making $10 an hour and have to go to work.

Don’t both sides this, are Democrats corrupt? Yes. But Republicans are on a whole other level, it’s a meaningful difference that deserves to be pointed out. Republicans go out of their way to hurt people.