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I don't agree that America is getting ready for Civil War 2.0 -- but there is a huge problem of 'Despair' in the US. There are, it seems, more and more 'roadblo

I don't agree that America is getting ready for Civil War 2.0 -- but there is a huge problem of 'Despair' in the US. There are, it seems, more and more 'roadblocks' to achieving the Good Life (tm). Working hard -- by itself -- is not enough. A lot of folks -- for whatever reasons -- will not get college degrees. Should that mean they are forever unemployed and unemployable? Or be stuck in dead-end jobs? If so, that's damning those folks to a life filled with Despair and Uncertainty - who may turn to drugs and liquor to mollify the pain. I've not seen a single viable solution to this problem so far. It is this unsolved problem that is mostly the cause of strife in the USA today -- and, unless solved, will indeed shred the fabric of society in the USA.

BucketSort 7y ago
It's not complicated. Wealth has been stripped from the people and is now held primarily by a few oligarchs. Much competition is fake. The bargaining power of workers is constantly undermined by monopolies and exploitation of overseas labor often working in inhumane conditions for meager pay. It seems like we live in a post reason world. The reason for all this despair is right in front of everyone's face, but they refuse to acknowledge it: corruption. This corruption will not back down and our government has ceased to represent the people. I hear people like you speak all the time. You are so insulated from the people of this nation it seems. You are probably in some ivory tower somewhere. You probably don't know that there are militias forming all over the nation or that the American people have a larger arsenal in terms of guns than any army in the world. It's clear to me now that all the surveillance and reduction of freedoms pushed through after 9/11 was in preparation for the inevitable uprising the government is anticipating. Patriotic citizens may be pushed to a point where they become terrorists. Everyone wants to live in peace, but they keep pushing down on our throats. There will be a breaking point where people snap. I pray things can be turned around politically. I don't advocate violence and hope it never comes to that. Edit: A recent article by Chris Hedges that outlines the pilfering of the people in brief: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-great-american-shakedown/ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-great-american-shakedo...
- dang 7y ago
  You're breaking the site guidelines by posting like this. Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop? HN is not for political and ideological battle, and certainly not flamewar. It's for intellectual curiosity. Those things can't coexist; flames will quickly take the site over completely if allowed to, so we can't allow them to. Please use HN as intended. That's not a statement about political and ideological concerns being unimportant—on the contrary, they're more important than most of what gets posted here. It's just a statement about what kind of website this is.

BucketSort 7y ago

It's not complicated. Wealth has been stripped from the people and is now held primarily by a few oligarchs. Much competition is fake. The bargaining power of workers is constantly undermined by monopolies and exploitation of overseas labor often working in inhumane conditions for meager pay. It seems like we live in a post reason world. The reason for all this despair is right in front of everyone's face, but they refuse to acknowledge it: corruption. This corruption will not back down and our government has ceased to represent the people. I hear people like you speak all the time. You are so insulated from the people of this nation it seems. You are probably in some ivory tower somewhere. You probably don't know that there are militias forming all over the nation or that the American people have a larger arsenal in terms of guns than any army in the world. It's clear to me now that all the surveillance and reduction of freedoms pushed through after 9/11 was in preparation for the inevitable uprising the government is anticipating. Patriotic citizens may be pushed to a point where they become terrorists. Everyone wants to live in peace, but they keep pushing down on our throats. There will be a breaking point where people snap. I pray things can be turned around politically. I don't advocate violence and hope it never comes to that. Edit: A recent article by Chris Hedges that outlines the pilfering of the people in brief: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-great-american-shakedown/ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-great-american-shakedo...

dang 7y ago
You're breaking the site guidelines by posting like this. Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop? HN is not for political and ideological battle, and certainly not flamewar. It's for intellectual curiosity. Those things can't coexist; flames will quickly take the site over completely if allowed to, so we can't allow them to. Please use HN as intended. That's not a statement about political and ideological concerns being unimportant—on the contrary, they're more important than most of what gets posted here. It's just a statement about what kind of website this is.