4 ms·
The US wasn't always as dysfunctional or as corrupt of a banana republic of some billionaires, a nonexistent middle class, mostly poor people, and undercounted
by 1letterunixname 3y ago
The US wasn't always as dysfunctional or as corrupt of a banana republic of some billionaires, a nonexistent middle class, mostly poor people, and undercounted millions of homeless people living along freeway embankments and under highway overpasses. The problem is the blind faith in capitalist utopian magical thinking when certain functions are perverted when they are abandoned to unreasonable and under-regulated profit extraction. Prisons, firefighting, public safety, the military, healthcare, voting, and education should not be privatized or for-profit.
- gorjusborg 3y agoI agree, and what I find fascinating is that the 'blind self faith' that pervades the U.S. culture is something that helped it rise earlier in its history. The faith that help it rise has survived longer than the rise itself. What once was a boon now makes it unable to act to correct a clear downward trend in the society.
- lurking15 3y ago> blind faith in capitalist utopian magical thinking you can find this in heaps throughout the political spectrum