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Dangerous inner cities
Poor public schools
Crappy infrastructure
Corrupt local, state, and national politicians
In other words, societal issues that have been occurring for decades. I'm sure people in the 1980's where the crack epidemic was at an all time high also thought we'd "turn into Brazil" by the 2000's as well.
In other words, societal issues that have been occurring for decades. I'm sure people in the 1980's where the crack epidemic was at an all time high also thought we'd "turn into Brazil" by the 2000's as well.
The President of Brazil will seem much more comparable to the US (and not in a good way) than a country like The Netherlands or Norway, especially from 1-20-2017 through 1-20-2021.
Well the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonarois of similar to Donald Trump, and he did support Donald Trump. He is also evangelical and like the USA Brazil has a large evangelical voting base. He has downplayed the Covid threat and has spoken out against masks. Has made so called homophobic comments. He has said he does not want his country to be a haven for gay tourism.
I don't think Donald Trump even went as far as the Brazilian president with his comments on gays. ONly Mike Pence is an exception.
He is really prolife like Donald Trump, and pro gun and outspoken against socialism as well as against race based affirmative action and does not believe in climate change.
He like Donald Trump have made claims on voter fraud in elections.
He like Donald Trump tend to get most support from White males
"I don't think Donald Trump even went as far as the Brazilian president with his comments on gays." Elaborate.
Brazil also has very protectionist economic policies like Trump wanted. The result is high prices for many goods and services and low consumer purchasing power.
If you think inflation is bad now, you should see what happens when big tariffs on imported goods get passed along to end users…
It seems to me that the USA is no longer a first-world country. I think we are becoming a sketchy second-world country like Brazil or Russia. We are ruled by a corrupt elite who run the government via campaign contributions and bribery. We aren’t really a democracy anymore. We have vast wealth and income inequality and the super-rich use foreign banks and shelters to avoid paying taxes. And finally we have all of the dysfunction that comes with countries that are multicultural, multi-ethnic, multi-racial and multi-religious.
Multiculturalism?
The US has always been a country of immigrants and clashes of cultures. Immigrants from 199 countries settled in the US.
Top 5 source countries and pro I ate waves of immigration
Black people were not voluntary immigrants and were imported like animals since 1619, 157 years before the US became the US. Many Irish immigrants were voluntary indentured servants whose values were less than slaves because the Irish had a right to earn their freedom.
Read up on the massive immigrant tenements in large cities in the East.
Read up on the pirates in coastal cities in the East.
Read up on gangs in the US.
The US has never been a democracy. It is a representative democracy. Citizens vote for representatives to make laws. Businesses and wealthy individuals have bought influence , all along.
There has been huge income inequality in the US, all along. The great estates throughout the US demonstrate how the very wealthy lived. The Biltmore Estate in NC is a whopping 17,500 sq ft was built in 1895 for the Vanderbilt family.
Millionaire mansions once lined 5th Ave in NYC, while the majority lived in the lower part of the city in tenements where human waste was tossed out the window.
The middle class is an economic construct. The concept of childhood was relatively unknown to most, unless wealthy.
Depending on your economic class, location, gender , religion and race, the US has always been dysfunctional.
World powers continuously evolve over time, ancient Egypt, and the empires of Britain,Rome, Russia, Tang, etc.
It seems to me that the USA is no longer a first-world country. I think we are becoming a sketchy second-world country like Brazil or Russia. We are ruled by a corrupt elite who run the government via campaign contributions and bribery. We aren’t really a democracy anymore. We have vast wealth and income inequality and the super-rich use foreign banks and shelters to avoid paying taxes. And finally we have all of the dysfunction that comes with countries that are multicultural, multi-ethnic, multi-racial and multi-religious.
Blue America is like western Europe, red America is like Brazil.
Our increasingly mediocre education system doesn't exactly inspire much hope for the future of this country.
And guess who's been in control of that?
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