Keadaan dari/di Amerika, yg memang betul kenyataan. Dimana penulis adalah akademisi/orang dari Amerika dan dari institusi yg terkemuda di dunia. Kalau berita2 di AS sih, kurang bisa dipercaya karena di politisasi, terutama Fox News.
What makes America so much more advanced than other countries?Bob Whitcombe, B.S. Nuclear Physics & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (1976)Answered Feb 3Originally Answered: What makes America the most advanced nation in the world? Ha, Ha, Hah, Hah - what a funny joke. With our crumbling roads, obsolete trains, planes made by people whose software can’t find the International Space Station and leaders who tell us every day how deprived we are with more than half the people controlling less than 2% of the wealth and parents greater chance of having their children killed in school vs sending them overseas for combat in foreign wars I would hardly call America the most advanced nation in the world. And now - what I used to think about as America’s strength - respect for the rule of law - out the window with the current partisanship in the US Senate. I had expected at the very least a strong rebuke for Trump’s actions - instead the Senate is giving him carte blanche even though nobody denies his behavior in withholding funds from an ally under direct attack by an enemy unless they produced a sham investigation into a Trump political rival was “inappropriate”. Jesus - did you expect to see a day when the “Leader” of the Free world reveled in the number of commandments he broke? At one time, America was the most advanced nation on the planet - but after years neglecting our educational needs, eroding the fabric of Democracy, our middle class, pissing our life savings down a gaping health care black hole and no investment in infrastructure we now have mediocre roads and unsafe bridges. While China is on the dark side of the Moon (which really isn’t), I would much prefer to ride one of their smooth, luxurious high speed trains for 1000 miles than any ground transport in the US. Odd that while the major technical advances in the US seem to come from foreigners investing or managing these companies (Alphabet, Microsoft, IBM) and building things in the US - Trump is actively seeking to destroy the immigration engine that made America great. It is as if everything on Putin’s “List of Things to Make America Poor” were being enacted. For some odd reason - millions of voters in the impoverished 50% of the US population think giving their taxes to millionaires and billionaires is the greatest idea in the world because someday it might be them. I have news for you - that thing about the 1% club - means the other 99% don’t do so well.
