Remember the very early Covid death counts?

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4. Your words remind me a great deal of what historian Morris Berman has written...

...in his "America Trilogy": The Twilight of American Culture, Dark Ages America, and Why America Failed. His answer to all this, unfortunately, isn't practical for most of us: emigrate to greener pastures. (Berman now lives in Mexico).

You can read his blog here: http://morrisberman.blogspot.com/

You're right about a second Trump term. But Berman would say (and I think has said) that Biden will just slow down the collapse; it's been baked into the cake since 1776. I don't know if he's right; he's just one historian. What I do know is that many voices other than the "hustlers" (Berman's term) have been largely silenced, or rather their ideas marginalized. People like Thoreau, Mumford, Jane Jacobs--whose ideas were as American as proverbial hot dogs and apple pie--are hardly known today. You would have a most unusual educational experience, even in college, to have been exposed to many of their ideas. Forget about high school, where most of the textbooks have been wrecked by Texas billionaire control of the school book market and M&A insanity at publishing houses. (Thom Hartmann has covered this a few years ago). Those ideas might have saved us from the rapaciousness of our ruling class over at least the last 30 years.

Just as a hedge, you might look into emigrating, if and when we ever turn the corner on COVID-19.