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I agree with you on this. 2020 heralded a set of problems that hasn't been seen in a very, very long time: a pandemic, increasingly belligerent foes who are challenging American premacy on a fundamental level, and a heavily divided populace. If anything, this, and the years leading up to it, have shown that our established protocols are not working.
For people who grew up almost entirely through these "good times" and are used to a high level of personal and societal stability, I can see where it seems like an impossible hole to get out of... but, these are by and large the same people who squandered a good thing under the assumption that the well would never run dry.
For the younger people coming of age now, who grew up being told that they were going to inherit this stability and opportunity only to see the government and corporations plunder it with, apparently, the relative approval of the preceding generation, of course there is a cynicism surrounding the narrative of American greatness... but with 40-60+ years ahead of us, we need real, fundamental solutions, rather than just a feelgood bill here or there that gives the average person a cookie and the powers-that-be a cake.
The resounding feeling I get from most people in my age group is that the ideology and mythology surrounding American excpetionalism is inherently a) broken, and b) irrelevant when we are facing so many problems at home. I don't think anyone wants China to overtake the US or Russia to expand its influence into Europe, contrary to popular belief, but there's a lot of frustration and a feeling of desperation at the existential problems we have at home. Explaining away our broken healthcare, educational, and economic systems with "it's better here than in [insert developing country]" or "we can't do that because that's communism/socialism/etc and our enemies do it" isn't working anymore. Or, "we can't make it easier for people to access healthcare/housing/opportunity because we need those resources to fight The Enemy!!" When most of us think of trying to maintain the order that "worked" through the end of the cold war and into the aughts, we don't see any benefit... look at where we are now. I think this is a good time to try new things for a new world and new reality.
I can see where some baby boomers and older Gen X'ers, and also the younger people who follow their lead, who are seeing people born from the 80's to 00's age up into a voting block would feel uncertainty or fear for the future. Many of the greatest generation who saw the radical youth of the 60's give way to the hedonistic 70's and corporate greed in the 80's probably felt fear for the future, too. When I'm in my 60's and 70's, I'll probably look at whatever my grandkids' generation is doing with exasperated derision... "that's not how you do it, damn it!" "what do you mean you want it this way? Just do it the way that worked for me!" etc. But it won't be my battle anymore, and I sure as hell hope I leave a better country for them than the one I'm inheriting.
Striving for the best has always been an inherently human. Many people make the mistake you've made. Our individual success creates the collective not the reverse.
That is the reason the vaccine works and No one loves Joe.
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You did not get here on your own and you have a creator whether you acknowledge it or not. This world is too intricate and we don't even know the half of the hows and whys of our own body and still know very little..Science is merely the study of God's creation.
People still have faith its the "religion" part their dumping and what they accept on how they got here is their own beliefs. Science is the study of reality, it pulls back the curtain and lets the light in so people cans see clearly. Religion has done nothing but try to keep that curtain pulled shut because then people would see the truth and religion would lose its hold.
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