What is my country?

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What is this? Like what in the freaking hell is this...I don't recognize it and its legitimately starting to freak me out, and I don't know what to do. Was everything I got taught in school a lie, is democracy really a failed experiment, what the hell is going on? Can't seem to get a clear story from anywhere. I suppose the worst part is knowing I am very much awake and the nightmare still continues...I just wish I could wake up from this, but this time around its reality

Seriously what is this, can it be real...uhh for f**k sake wake me up when election season ends or not, not even sure I want to see how it pans out...Either way I don't know what this is, but I am not enjoying it.

Virus outbreak in the world, every other country taking it seriously and over we have trump complaining about fake news smearing him when he failed to accept testing kits for the virus that would have been provided, actuallly refused them cause 'here in the U.S we were working on our own solution' well our own solution was too freaking late outbreak is already here and the U.S production never came up with enough kits to adequately test for the virus. We could have just accepted the test that was going to be provided but no. Ole Trump had something better or so he said.

His dumb decision put thousands of U.S citizens at risk.

It's just the "we're the best" propaganda breaking apart.
The US are not the worst place in the world but certainly there are a lot of unadressed issues.
Democracy has its flaws just like any other political system - Power Corrupts and no system is free from it.
I see the shift towards "we've been the bad guys too... sorry" in popular culture. Digesting it will probably take a few decades and in the meantime, various symptoms of sickness may apppear.
Ultimately, humans will most likely adapt to whatever comes next.

I’m paste quoting in one of my posts from January, that gives my thoughts on the general cultural forces lying behind a lot of what’s happening in terms of big politics across the West in our times: in the hope that it’ll be helpful food for thought:

(The original thread was on cancel culture and affirmative action for context, and had got rather heated: which is why I concluded the way I did... the thread died two posts after this one.)

Trust me-----if you go to a place like Nigeria, you would greatly miss the Good Old USA, warts and all!

^
Very good point: for all the factiousness and such, the wider West is still the least hostile series of environments to be human in. Often, unfortunately, by a very wide margin.

OUR country is being held hostage by greedy, corrupt, power hungry sociopathic boomers with no morals who see fit to chip away at the institutions and safety nets, carefully built up over generations to serve everyone, and abuse whatever is left to line their pockets and make everything for their own personal gain, in accordance to the worldview shaped by their privileged childhoods. "screw you, i got mine" mentality runs rampant in this country, among all generations, but we're feeling the effect most from the one who actually has power - and will not let it go, the metaphor of the "dying establishment" is most apparent in the prospect of the 2020 election - a race between two corrupt, senile old men, who have no meaningful differences in their disastrous beliefs to speak of, only registered in different parties. if it comes to trump or biden, i know i'm staying home. a vote for a "lesser evil" is still a vote for an evil.

when you look at the seed population of america, it all makes sense. religious fanatics, outcasts of all shapes and creeds who could not make it in europe, it makes sense that they would create a country that would be another pariah itself.

what you are seeing right now are the unmistakable symptoms of systemic rot like karamazov pointed out, and all the f**kery that's going on is just the establishment in a more frantic and desperate attempt to save itself as they literally die out and see the writing on the wall.

so what will you do? are you gonna help make this a better place?

Biden is much less a threat to our liberties than Trump.

I clearly remember a Trump supporter saying he didn't want to pay for other people's health care. He had a good job that provided good heath care.

Good for him.

People have to think beyond their mere personal experience.

Trump, if he was able, would dispense with the Constitution and rule by decree.

Just stop watching the news. Then all you will know about is your daily routine.

^ I haven’t watched or read the news for weeks. (Since corona started)
I’m much less anxious, and I’ve finished five miniature compositions in the time I would’ve spent fretting.
Result!

The people who are suffering most are the investors in the stock/commodities markets.

^ or maybe some effective, well-drafted regulations: with a properly funded and staffed bureaucracy to administer them.
And requisite penalties that are actually enforced.
(We could sure do with that this side of the pond)

I’ve become a centrist dad haven’t I?