America is Fucked
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- grafician-1
"We Are Living in a Failed State
The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken."
"When the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly. Chronic ills—a corrupt political class, a sclerotic bureaucracy, a heartless economy, a divided and distracted public—had gone untreated for years. We had learned to live, uncomfortably, with the symptoms. It took the scale and intimacy of a pandemic to expose their severity—to shock Americans with the recognition that we are in the high-risk category.
The crisis demanded a response that was swift, rational, and collective. The United States reacted instead like Pakistan or Belarus—like a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering."
- "government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering"imbecile
- You can close this thread, it's over after this article...grafician
- It's been a sick society for years.PhanLo
- We've been fucked for decades.MarleyMarl
- and trump was the big fat orange cherry on top_niko
- Trump is just a symptom.Chimp
- It revealed the whole world is broken, it's the same model all over the globe.Maaku