It may seem weird to be grateful. The dollar is continuing to sink faster than ever. The country is losing yet another war. Our allies are becoming disenchanted with our sanctions. Increasing amounts of oil and gas are now being traded in currencies other than the dollar. National banks are reducing dollar holdings. The nation has given so much in weapons to the corrupt government in Kyiv that it will take a long time to restock the weapons. (sorry, I'm supposed to call them defense). I'm grateful because there is now a possibility, that like the drug addict, the nation will decide we need to change and get our act together. 1 Bring jobs back into the country. 2 Reduce the crime rate. 3 Give direction to life and improve the sense of security and belonging. 4 Control the borders. 5 Change to a simpler healthcare system that works and costs a lot less. This will allow low-paid workers to keep their jobs. 6 Decide nobody needs to choose between 150 different sexes. 7 In our schools use teaching and guidance methods that work instead of the ones some people think are ideologically right. 8 Limit the military-industrial complex. Don't start or get involved in pointless wars in the Eastern Hemisphere. 9 Don't make America Great, make America Good.
Your points are spot-on as they say, all proper objectives to restore the health of society and the nation. What's more they are all indeed possible. The question is- have people had enough chaos to inspire the need for change? Consequences are great teachers, assuming you are wise enough to connect the choices that create them to the consequence. A great many people seem unable to do that. However in our system, and in most any free country- the government shapes the policies and path... but the demands of the people shape the government, and too many people think government should be a sugar daddy instead of a prudent system of management for the nations business. Personal responsibility and the values that make people strong are not inherent elements of humans; they must be taught by examples as well as descriptions. Government becomes what we demand and allow it to become. The challenge to restore the nation has to start with leadership, and by that I mean Congress; it is the instrument whose purpose is to serve as the navigator to guide the nation safely to a better future- despite the demands of some to plunder the future for today. This is the root cause; Congress is unable to manage itself, and thereby, unable to manage all the rest of government it's responsible for. It can be fixed, but that depends on- US. . When the people who make the rules do not obey the rules, then- there are no rules, and that is a terrible model and precedent to set. Congress finds itself unable to honor it's own primary rules- and the result is loss of order, and a state of chaos. What's going on in the public sector? A loss of order, and a state of chaos. Leaders, setting the examples... and that is the first thing to change. Congress must become a functional, honorable institution that serves it's designed purpose. No alternative. There's a lot of people in America that are grateful to be Americans, and realize that the potential for the future depends of making the right choices today- and that means fixing what's broken.
I feel that way. A friend completed a survey and wrote in that survey that Biden has done nothing as President. So I asked, do you mean he didn't open the Southern border? That he didn't blow a few trillion dollars, giving it to rich people who didn't need it, and giving it to people with jobs to quit those jobs? He didn't give millions of dollars in weapons to Ukraine which a lot of people predicted would lead to a war? If he had lived up to what many of us thought, as 'Sleepy Joe', and done nothing, then he wouldn't be half as bad as he has been. Gridlock to stop him from doing things might be an improvement.
I view congress as the greatest impediment to the American way of life. The less it does, then, the better. I don't think Biden has done anything. He appears to do what he is told to do. The white house in general gets the blame for the bad policies.
Yes, it has become evident that with a weak President, or a demented one, the U.S. is dominated even more than usual, by the lobbyists. So the U.S. is on autopilot and the Military Industrial Complex, the most powerful of the lobbies, starts a big war, to get money for the weapons it provides. And everything else suffers.
Lol...that's a fine little list, but you don't make a country good. A teacher gave her students a map of the world all cut up into puzzle pieces and told them to try to put the world back together. The class was struggling with the complexity of the map details and finding it hard to reassemble them correctly. Suddenly one student raised her hand and said she was finished. The teacher was surprised and asked her how she had been able to rearrange the world map so quickly. The student said that she noticed that on the back of the map pieces was the image of a person, so it was easy to put the figure back together quickly. "I just fixed the man and the world was also fixed," she said.
Indeed. That sort of vague bullshit alluding to some consensus of agreement reminds me of trump's "some people are saying..." routines when he was talking out of his ass. But this sounds like just another Russia apologist trying to distract from Putin's criminal actions. They turn up like clockwork whenever there is something especially hideous to deny. In this case, it's likely the barrage of indiscriminate bombardment of Ukraine as Putin tries to avenge his most recent humiliation.
America's problems don't have a thing to do with Russia. America's problems are 100% result of American elites who despise the American people and an American people who are not brave or strong enough to stand up against their oppressors. My ancestors would never have stood for the type of crap from their government that I tolerate. I was not forged in the fire of hardship that they were. We have a hateful and spiteful government because citizens always get the government they deserve. The government does not fear us and until it does it will never respect us.
I dunno about that. I think there are many Republican politicians who got a wake up call during these midterms. It may not be fear of the public, but I think they are recognizing the need to offer more than lip service to do 'a better job' or 'fix the broken election process'.
