1. It is impossible for America to survive the nonsense of both political parties. All we have now is endless warfare for entertainment. Government has become a reality TV show. Government is supposed to be about policy - policy that promotes the well being of citizens and the...
2...global influence of the United States. Both have been abandoned. Our infrastructure from the 2nd industrial revolution is decaying - meanwhile, developed countries around the world have entered the 3rd and even the 4th. Our global ranking on every measure of good policy....
3...has shrunk endlessly in recent decades. America is only exceptional in that it has the biggest military - by many multiples - of any nation. Other than that (and the number of people we imprison) we are sliding down the scale. It is dreadful that one political party....
4...has gone absolutely insane with conspiracy theories accepted as real, with oversight pure politics, undermining every standard ever embraced by the founders. Those are the Republicans. But the Democrats stand for nothing - anti-Trump and then a bunch of small ideas, most...
5...of them irrelevant to the lives of real Americans. We are now on a precipice - massive tax cuts at the top of an economy while having huge debts combined with and an insane trade war and an abandonment of our allies is unsustainable. We blew through all of the tax cuts....
6...that will be needed when the economy turns down - which it will, because we are not suspending the business cycle. Standard recovery is tax cuts and spending increases. But when the economy drops, the deficits will explode beyond anything anyone could ever comprehend....
7....which brings us to the trade war. If Trump does not back down - and he wont - the bottom will fall out of our economy. This is not a maybe. This is a fact. Economic history is very clear on this. Once the bottom drops out, what will we do? Issue more debt to the countries..
8...we are shivving? This all is unsustainable. We have a massive investment deficit in this country - we have about $5 trillion in infrastructure repairs and development necessary, but no one wants to pay for it. There are no big ideas - certainly not ones that will overcome...
9...this nightmare scenario coming from the democrats. You think national health insurance is coming? Forget it. The insurance companies will immediately file lawsuits claiming that the government is engaged in an unconstitutional taking, and the 5-4 SCOTUS will agree. And....
10...that is because "im too good to vote" people thought they would not vote because they wanted national health insurance. I dont get it. What is there to address this? Nothing. Somehow, all of the people in government playing games with our lives believe that America can't....
11...possibly fail. History proves it wrong. I remember the shock of the Soviet Union disappearing almost overnight. There is nothing about America that makes it impervious to incompetence. All we have left is financial reputation. And we are blowing through that quite....
12...rapidly. What is to be done? Its hopeless. These are hard problems, ones the government is neither honest nor competent enough to deal with, and ones few voters seem to understand. I am often called a Cassandra. But remember: Cassandra was doomed to be right but unheard.
It is amazing to me that already people are launching in with "MY side is not a problem." And that is the problem. We have not been governed by one party for decades. Both sides have been policy fools. We need big ideas to fix this - someone needs to be raising the alarm bell...
14....but no one will because, "MY party is great." This isn't a frigging football game. This isn't teams. This is definable policy. Not stuff people say - what is actually done.
