One of the numerous overlapping things that I think is happening in America is as things continue to improve slowly every year (they are don't @ me) is that people focus more on the remaining problems with greater intensity. It is entirely reasonable to say things like 1/n
"America still struggles with racism and there remain gaps in inclusion, access to opportunity, and outcomes." It is entirely absurd to say much of the heated rhetorical non-sense about the end of the American experiment (saw that one today but a big account). Part of the 2/n
problem is that people have lost all perspective, the rhetoric fighting over those narrower band of issues causes nothing but fevered screams where the analogies just become unhinged. Yes, there are problems but the fevered yells contribute probably more to the undermining.
