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What widely accepted part of American life today will be looked back upon with shame by American historians? For example, in the past, we had slavery, Indian affairs, male suffrage, Hiroshima. What part of today's American life will be a source of shame in the future?
What widely accepted part of American life today will be looked back upon with shame by American historians? For example, in the past, we had slavery, Indian affairs, male suffrage, Hiroshima. What part of today's American life will be a source of shame in the future?
--The pop culture which seems to reflect the entire Pandora's Box of societal ills/love of 'The Self'--ie Reality TV shows and everything connected to them.
I think the greatest shame will be the failure to care for the most fragile citizens many of whom are children --which will then result in greater future problems.
What widely accepted part of American life today will be looked back upon with shame by American historians? For example, in the past, we had slavery, Indian affairs, male suffrage, Hiroshima. What part of today's American life will be a source of shame in the future?
What widely accepted part of American life today will be looked back upon with shame by American historians? For example, in the past, we had slavery, Indian affairs, male suffrage, Hiroshima. What part of today's American life will be a source of shame in the future?
1. The way the American people stood by and twiddled their thumbs while George W. Bush got us into an unnecessary war in Iraq. We could have stopped this and most of us simply deferred to that clown instead. The money we spent on the war would have been much better used as part of economic stimulus package today now that we are in a recession.
2. The way we allowed our health care system to become expensive, bloated, and inefficient. Than the way we turned our backs when slowly 15% of our population became uninsured.
3. The endless surveys that even when taken when our economy was good showed that people regarded short term economic prosperity as a far more important issue than global warming, general environomental destruction, and/or depletion of natural resources.
4. Our unrealistic appetite for automobiles, electronics, and goods produced abroad that resulted in domestic manufacturing being largely obliterated.
5. Our unwillingness to grapple with the problem of illegal immigration despite the fact that 13 million undocumented workers are in our country.
I think anyone who lived through this period and endorsed these views will be dealt with mercilessly by future historians. It may well be known as the period when the decline of America became unstoppable. I pray things change.
Our apathy and inaction. Somewhere down the line, our grandchildren will lose their children in the fight to regain the freedom our grandparents had and we gave away.
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