I just read a scathing assessment of the USA by Paul Edwards of Montana. Here is the gist of what he said. It rings painfully true.
1. What is happening to America is an unmitigated tragedy and there’s no satisfaction in satirising or ridiculing it. This diseased, battered country still stands, reeling in confusion, outrage and endless violence. Wit, humor, and irony lose all effect when change is not possible and essential change is no longer conceivable in America.
2. The root cause is that our system has been built on injustice and inequity... Our foundation was built on genocide, slavery and white privilege and the nation evolved accordingly.
3. The last four years of Trump has forced into high relief the grotesque rottenness of the polity that hallmarks our failed state. The Trump era has advertised in grisly detail the vacuous arrogance, blatant cruelty, bottomless avarice, and brazen aggression that has insulted, violated, and alienated the world.
4. From our beginning, our Exceptionalist mythology has long taught that Americans are a superior kind of people, just and heroic. Yet our government has partnered with and coddled dozens of the vilest, murderous maniacs that ever lived, arming their police states, providing death squads and mercenary thugs.
5. The economic & social security of working people has been actively undermined. But the titans of finance have enriched themselves obscenely and used the War Machine to kill millions of peasant “enemies” in places they couldn’t find on a map.
6. The people no longer believe that the state represents them. When that faith fails, state authority dissolves, and there is war in the streets. Meanwhile, two old inept, and impaired buffoons catering to the .001% are preparing for an election by the end of the year.
Read more at the link http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55508.htm Eddie
