Thank you @marwilliamson. All of this is true from the top all the way down. Even those suffering the most use this false idea of the American Dream to excuse the worst ideologies and praise the most morally bankrupt.

Concurred; been compromised and crumbling for about 4 decades now, (despite short term ups and downs), compliments of some shortsighted policies. Gotta turn it around now or else the undoing and remaking will take decades. And we have shown no patience for longterm commitments

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There is so much truth here. I am so grateful for your voice in this Presidential election

The false gods of money and power have been so destructive to the planet and ultimately empty to the worshipper.

What a great read! Please write a book on this

yes and looking inward is painful. Lots of blame to go around.

Yeah and the deregulation processes of the 80s and 90s and the following globalization was opening the floodgates for all of this. And we here in Europe do not follow far behind

Amen. It should come as no surprise that our government is failing us because they have been doing that for some time now.

We have been taught that an amoral economic system can do no harm. I fear that lesson has been learned too deeply in spite of all evidence to the contrary.