When did Americans stop believing in the dream of a better country? [View all]
Today we have:
* A $7.25/hr. minumum wage, not enough to live indoors (And Missouri just repealed paid sick leave)
* Poor quality public schools (the foundation of democracy) with over half our population reading below a 6th grade level.
* A broken healthcare system, where not everyone can receive care but anyone can find themselves forced into bankruptcy just for getting sick and women with miscarriages bleeding out in hospital parking lots or dying from sepsis.
*Rights we thought we could count on being methodically stripped away, one by one.
* Unfettered gun violence, with daily mass shootings and children traumatized and terrified to go to school
*A crumbling infrastructure
* Less clean water, air and soil to grow our food
*A climate in distress
Americans don’t have to live in this kind of world. We have to power to demand better, but we don’t.
Instead, we have leaders telling us billionaires aren’t rich enough and need even more money and power. And they have taken food away from hungry children to give the rich even more
Instead, we allow massive gangs of masked and heavily armed thugs to roam our streets and terrorize everyone.
Our leaders are grabbing as much money as they can, with shakedowns, accepting bribes, and they have zero fear of accountability.
Why do we put up with this?
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