Jeff - you hit the nail on the head. Bam! There once was a time where rugged individualism to the point of belligerence, or whatever you want to call the USA's personality (I call it freedum), was what the world needed. Like freeing the world from Fascism come hell or high water 80 something years ago. That time is long past. Now, …
Jeff - you hit the nail on the head. Bam! There once was a time where rugged individualism to the point of belligerence, or whatever you want to call the USA's personality (I call it freedum), was what the world needed. Like freeing the world from Fascism come hell or high water 80 something years ago. That time is long past. Now, that very characteristic is standing in the way of humanity's greatest threat of all time - dramatic altering of the worlds climate. And our government, set up along those same characteristics, is flatly unable to deal with it. Not with the minority-protecting machinery in place which enables the MAGA types to stall anything they don't want. Meanwhile we continue to barrel down the road of climate disaster and all that entails. I solidified this conclusion when I saw what happened in this country when the Covid pandemic began. It is a perfect microcosm of our climate response (or lack thereof).
Jeff - you hit the nail on the head. Bam! There once was a time where rugged individualism to the point of belligerence, or whatever you want to call the USA's personality (I call it freedum), was what the world needed. Like freeing the world from Fascism come hell or high water 80 something years ago. That time is long past. Now, that very characteristic is standing in the way of humanity's greatest threat of all time - dramatic altering of the worlds climate. And our government, set up along those same characteristics, is flatly unable to deal with it. Not with the minority-protecting machinery in place which enables the MAGA types to stall anything they don't want. Meanwhile we continue to barrel down the road of climate disaster and all that entails. I solidified this conclusion when I saw what happened in this country when the Covid pandemic began. It is a perfect microcosm of our climate response (or lack thereof).