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People have been declaring the American dream dead before any of us were born. We're suffering from unusually poor governance, but it'll hardly be the first ti
by nitwit005 1y ago
People have been declaring the American dream dead before any of us were born.
We're suffering from unusually poor governance, but it'll hardly be the first time.
- lrvick 1y agoWe will do a 180 and start walking the other way in 3 years. And then 4 years after that will be back here again. As is tradition. America never dies, it just walks in circles aimlessly while others march ahead in a mostly straight line laughing at us.
- Daishiman 1y agoYou are drastically underestimating how incompetent this government is compared to all others that preceded it and how deep the loss of expertise hits. You do not recover from lost bureaucratic competence for decades.
- lrvick 1y agoEroded public trust in government is however a good thing. Our biggest mistake as a supposedly free country was trusting centralized entities to forever act in accordance with the will of the majority. As a society we need to stop asking for permission to fix potholes. Just go fix them and dare them to fine you for it which would be catnip for journalists to call more attention to the dysfunctional government. NASA should crowdfund the weather satellites, with tax deductible donations, like right now. I would support them staying in the sky.
- Daishiman 1y agoSpoken like someone who has never lived in a country with limited state capacity.