The American people are a victim of the successes of our past citizens. There are no great pandemics. No problems of any note, not poverty or drugs or crime. While it is true these are all “problems” they don’t make the large mass of citizens feel personally threatened so that mass would take collective action; like after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The two biggest potential disasters facing the public are liberals and Muslims; neither of which has triggered a fight or flight response. Even if there was something to draw the public together in what could be called One Public Opinion, the talking heads in the Media would be on the other side. “If we destroy the planet killing asteroid, think how badly it would feel!” (Those type people.)
In America the “poor” probably average fifty pounds overweight. The rich donate to the Democrats. The colleges have safe spaces for snowflakes “triggered” by seeing a bad color or hearing a “cisgender” joke.
The closest we have come to survival type thinking is with President Trump. And, literally hundreds of people are so “triggered” by him I fear for his safety.
The world has gone crazy and “we” are doing nothing to bring it back from the brink.
“In America the “poor” probably average fifty pounds overweight.”
In the US, the poor are the most likely to obese, something that hasn’t ever happened before in all of recorded history. Hard to imagine any sort of sustained civil unrest, at least while that is the case. Which was probably the point of it.
Supposedly the dumbest 10% of voters, the ones that vote one way and then another and can’t usually give a reason that follows any sort of logical explanation, are the ones that decide elections. Supposedly all campaign money is meant to sway the swing voters, at least after the primary process.
That’s something else I find amazing. That the dumbest 10% of eligible voters who manage to vote decide elections, whether or not a pub or dem wins. It could be a good result, or a bad one, but in any case the idiots decided based on who was able to sway them that cycle and not any guiding political philosophy, whether of the left or right.
Freegards