This is a constitutional crisis

[paleotn]

49. The thing about Americans.....

Most Americans, particularly white Americans, are soft and whiny in the extreme. A bunch of over sized babies, both on the left and right. Not surprising given the nice, cushy, comfortable bubble we've been living in since WW2. If things get the least bit hard, hell, the least bit inconvenient, we freak out, give up, and roll around like goddamn toddlers.

We're faced with a crises, perhaps existential, and instead of supposed American ruggedness, fortitude, ingenuity and adaptability in facing the problem, we whine. Whine endlessly like we're exceptional for some bizarre reason and this should never, ever happen to us.. For some it seems like a parlor game. They get some kind of weird satisfaction in going 100% negative and whining instead of figuring out what we ALL need to do to fix the problem.

In Mexico, where gross government dysfunction is a day that ends in Y and poverty is beyond most American's understanding, you don't hear the bawling like petulant children. They look at us and say..."you think you've got problems?" The same throughout much of the world. Yet, they struggle to improve their situations and their countries against far, far greater odds than we.

We're worried about our sanity? They're worried about their goddamn survival. We're so damn weak and our enemies know it and are exploiting it. Stop being so damn weak. Stop being exploited. It's a conscious choice.