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- colin_s2
I'm mostly worried about what happens after.
Do we (Americans) as a nation pull together and demand a more balanced social infrastructure? Or do we watch another crisis go by where money and power insulate those in control and further disenfranchise and oppress the masses?
Katrina, Sandy Hook, Covid-19; massive displays of a complete failure in American social infrastructure in terms of protecting public health across the board. I would accuse America of having a completely failed state, but this to me seems how our system is exactly designed to run: protecting the mechanisms of control for a select few while allowing the people to fend for themselves individually, regardless of what crisis may occur.
One and one-half trillion dollars into the banks, just like that, yet the people are basically on their own in fending off both a massive, terrifying and invisible entity that wants to kill them (the American healthcare system) and a global pandemic.
Fuck everything about this system.
- Sadly, it will be back to the status quo in your country when this finally blows over. no one will have learned anything, and it will continue to be ...Continuity
- ... a third-world country.Continuity
- But hey, Bernie Sanders is a scary, dirty communist who would destroy the US, amirite?Continuity
- it's a first world country with third world peoplehotroddy
- I have wondered whether this all might catalyse a massive change in the American political psyche. Probably not.Nairn
- @Nairn: one of their would-be presidential candidates is precisely trying to bring about that change. And he's probably about to throw in the towel. Says it allContinuity
- I bet you're all fun at parties :)SteveJobs
- The inequality aspect aside, what is striking is how much of a house of cards the whole system is. People stop working for a week and everything just collapses?yuekit
- The thing I don't get is how the whole "Let's suggest C-19 is a political tool of the left" hasn't immediately shat in the Right's faces. It's despicable and ..Nairn
- ..inherently hypocritical and an abuse of the trust of the millions of poor saps who voted for them. To my eyes, this shit is socially nuclear, yet..?Nairn
- agreed, no need for the 1% to control so much of the wealth given that it's worthless without the other 99%_niko
- Their healthcare system is the laughing stock of the world, now maybe they'll realize that and change._niko
- My understanding is that the healthcare in the States can be amongst the very best in the world. If you can afford it.Nairn
- Oh you guys are so pessimistic! You're in the middle of watching the GOP disintegrate as they watch their base grow older and die and you're wondering if thingszarkonite
- will change? Of course, things are changing, they're remarkably different than they were in the 90s. Change is slow and uneven, be patient.zarkonite