America is Fucked
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- Bennn1
This is a translation from an article someone wrote in a newspaper over here... :
- - -'The United States is only a shadow of itself'
-Crisis reveals vulnerabilities, polarization, cynicism and dysfunction of American society
At the heart of the current global crisis, what is wrong with the United States? As they have become the world's primary focus of the pandemic,
## the Americans are sinking into their divisions instead of uniting in the face of the challenge ##
While the United States should be a leader and an inspiration in the fight against COVID-19, it is an example not to follow.
The pandemic has taken on gigantic proportions in the United States, where it has struck a dysfunctional political system and a deeply divided society.
What is obvious when observing the evolution of the pandemic in the United States is first of all the monumental incompetence of the current occupant of the White House.
Donald Trump did not create this virus, but he is largely responsible for the catastrophic scale of the pandemic on American soil.
## Faced with his mistakes, Donald Trump categorically refuses to assume his responsibilities. He gives himself the perfect mark and, whatever the death toll, he will present it as a success for him.##
Whatever he says, especially when he is promoting unproven or downright dangerous "treatments", it's wise not to take him seriously.
The pandemic has also highlighted the dysfunctional nature of American political institutions in the Trump era. Far from facilitating the production and distribution of essential products for the control of the coronavirus, the federal government has pushed the states to compete in harmful competition.
The federal government's failure to act in concert comes, among other things, from the dismantling by Donald Trump of the structures put in place by the previous administration to coordinate the action of the various stakeholders.
After three months, the federal government's implementation of screening tests remains totally inadequate, whatever Trump says.
## The glaring inequalities of American society are exposed by the pandemic.##
When the first drug tests were available, it was easy for professional basketball players to take advantage of, but they remained inaccessible to ordinary people.
## According to a joke that is still circulating, the best way to get a COVID-19 test in the United States is to sneeze in the face of a millionaire.##
Wherever the coronavirus is rife, members of racial minorities and the less fortunate are the hardest hit.
These disadvantaged groups do not have access to adequate preventive care and a large proportion of them have preconditions that make them more vulnerable to the virus.
## Unfortunately, when a president spends more time lamenting the fate of the media than expressing compassion for the victims ##
## and when the same president cares more about the political fallout from his actions than their impact on health public, one cannot immediately reject the interpretation of cynics ##
## The partisan polarization that plagues American politics harms the fight against a virus that makes fun of parties. It is part of a deeper political crisis of which Donald Trump is as much a symptom as a cause ##
In past great trials, the Americans have put aside their political differences and have come together to better overcome the challenge. Not this time.
--The twilight of American international leadership ---
When we observe the crisis in the United States with Trump in the foreground, we do not see a very inspiring model. We especially do not see a leadership that we would be willing to follow with confidence on the difficult road to recovery. We see a country in the grip of a dangerous slippage and a president who has become the laughingstock of the whole world.
The coronavirus crisis reveals a political crisis in the United States whose causes precede the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House and whose consequences will survive him.
- Creating division and chaos are the first steps to make an Empire crash...Bennn
- Just a prank bro!inteliboy
- "Opinion" piece, but more like expressing "wishful thinking"Krassy
- A lot of people around the world are viewing America as a disaster movie right now.yuekit
- https://www.nytimes.…yuekit
- Final 2 paragraphs are right.Fax_Benson
- Trump's a disaster but he's a product of the system. Dem party has to take some blame for squandering the Obama years and offering up Hilary, Bernie v BidenFax_Benson
- He certainly capitalized on existing problems and divisions in US society. But I think it's safe to say Trump is also a uniquely negative influence.yuekit