Don't be so pessimistic. I'm from the USA: we might be divided (and people like you are pushing the divide!), but we still have the ability to get things done when we want to. There just isn't a collective goal pushing us all in one direction.
Overall I think it is a good thing. Only by many diverse opinions and goals from many different people can we try everything and see what really works out.
> but we still have the ability to get things done when we want to.
Please provide examples.
- We used to be able to build Hoover Dam. Now it takes literally years to pass a bill to maintain our highways.
- Do I need to remind you what a joke Infrastructure Week has become?
- How are those gun violence stats? Number 1 in the world at something, at least.
- The fastest-growing approach to paying for medical bills, in this country, is a GoFundMe campaign.
- The world financial system was nearly destroyed by inadequately regulated US "finanice industry innovation" in 2008. As Paul Volcker said the following year: “the ATM has been the only useful innovation in banking for the past 20 years”.
- Facebook and Google -- the most successful US companies in history, I think, have destroyed privacy, and are now bringing down democracy. Oh, right, I forgot, Facebook is connecting people. Point for you.
Seriously. What has this country done recently that proves we can do anything productive any longer?
Take a look at are highways. Despite constant complaints about them being in trouble, we build a lot of them including many bridges. Take a look at your city there is someplace in the metro area they are building something big.
Fasting growing doesn't mean much. Most people have insurance which covers everything. Yes there are too many people on the edges who don't have it, but most people do and don't need gofundme (I suspect some of them have a gofundme anyway as a way to raise money because they can)
Sure we don't do massive society wide projects, but that is because we don't need them. That doesn't mean we can't.
I know we're all stressed right now, and you make some good points, but your post would be a lot stronger and more welcome here if you took out the ad-homonyms and insults.
Overall I think it is a good thing. Only by many diverse opinions and goals from many different people can we try everything and see what really works out.