1/n.
Feels like many young Americans have just found Marx & think communism solves all the world's problems.
European countries tried it 100 years ago or at least had civil unrest / a civil war due to clashing ideologies.
Now practically all of Europe has social democracy...
2/n.
...a synthesis of capitalist & socialistic elements. I think it's a decent system and could work well for USA as well.
Thesis -> antithesis -> synthesis is how we got to it. Millions upon millions died at the thesis / antithesis phase... it took decades to reach synthesis.
3/n.
I wish people could better their society via democracy, but I've become increasingly fearful that the USA will go through a revolution, or at least a civil war. Same kind of a war that the Russian Empire had in 1917.
I hope the whole world won't join the "party" this time.
4/n.
Americans are a great fucking people IMO. Their society is broken.
I wish they are great enough to find unity again, to skip the thesis/antithesis phase and reach for synthesis. Peacefully.
But I'm 90% sure the American empire falls within a decade.
5/n.
The European countries have problems too & their political systems are far from perfect.
But in a working democracy, a compromise is the best one can hope for... 100% universal satisfaction is impossible.
But at least most people have food and a home.
6/n.
If the government of USA could help each of their citizens have these 2 basic necessities met, and have a system of healthcare that doesn't bankrupt sick people, I think a revolution could be avoided.
Otherwise, I'm pretty sure the union will fall into pieces.
7/n.
This YouTube channel is fucking excellent glimpse into the entire situation a 100 years ago, it goes through World War in chronological order, like "real time" in a way: youtube.com/c/TheGreatWarS…
8/n.
There's a link that Twitter has censored... tried to post it and sending the Tweet failed. It has to do with Bret Weinstein and Andrew Yang.
There are people thinking how to de-escalate the division!
#Unity2020
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