Seems Americans think some kind of magic rests on the political class, that they only have to really want it in order to be able to walk on water.
What this class has actually done is vastly waste the resources of what was an enormously blessed land.
Trump isn’t even so much about making America great again as about stopping the things that are, like the natives of Lilliput, tying this giant down.
Yep. A corrupt few has taken over the press, education and government, and uses it to enrich themselves. Human nature makes this undertaking trivial.
Not only have the natural resources been wasted, but so has the human potential. It has been said that the US reached the peak of (education) potential in the 1920's. I believe that. Passive media (radio) came into prominence then. Half an hour of radio or teevee is about half a page of newsprint. And when the message is mostly lies and misrepresentation, well, the results naturally fall out as they have.