One of the best descriptions of where we are as a country...

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2. The world is fragmenting.

During the Cold War, Americans were together on this one thing. The world itself was in two spheres of influence: American and Soviet. After the Cold War the world fragmented to the point that groups, rather than countries were carrying out terrorist attacks.

Now everywhere you look, the world is fragmenting. (Brexit) Before, we had the evening news at 6pm on each of three fairly neutral networks. Now we have 24 hours of news on three networks, one fascist, one somewhat liberal and one obscenely neutral to the point of taking Trump idiots/liars seriously. Cable TV allows us to fragment even more. You've got a terrible TV channels on every subject, but most are not that great.

The result is that we aren't working together, accomplishing ANY heavy lifting. Isn't it funny that America hasn't put people in space for over ten years? (But we're still spending/wasting a whole lot of money on space!) In some ways, you should understand that's the point of right wing/libertarian fanatics like the Koch brothers. The believe that rugged individuals should make the accomplishments. Thus there are few real accomplishments in the last 40 years. All we have are these damn expensive phones. Along the way Capitalist pigs have held their hands out and taken everything while putting us individually and collectively in debt. We need a new system.