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Did it happen under Reagan or was it before? We are so quick to do whatever any corporate sociopath executive or lifelong politican tells us to in record numbers.
somewhere along the line we stopped seeing our elected as representatives and started looking at them as leaders meant to solve all of our plights. i blame schools and parents for not educating our young on the american founding and what makes America different from many other places. we are constantly fed nonsense of utopian european countries smaller than new jersey and how perfect existence is there. our young have fools to look up to like professional athletes with the intellectual power of an ant, and celebrities like the kartrashians. we listen to beta males like john legend and charlie puth. Ask young people what is the most important issue to them they will say climate change which is a moving target that no one will ever get a handle on, and completely ignore China and keep advocating for shipping jobs there so they can buy their cheap tchotchkes brought over on petroleum powered vessels. we have become a society of over privileged people who lack critical thinking skills.
When are politicians sold us out to China. Before China, we opposed doing business with countries who ignored the civil rights of their people, so maybe what we have now is some kind of karma happening.
"This advisory warns U.S. businesses, individuals, academic institutions, service providers, investors and others that choose to operate in Xinjiang or engage with entities that use labor or goods from Xinjiang will face reputational, economic, and legal risks associated with certain types of involvement with entities that engage in human rights abuses."
I think this supporting civil rights violations has put us in the trouble that we are in financially as a country. I once saw a documentary where workers in China were begging US citizens to complain about the conditions that they were working under. They slept on cots in the factories, young people whose future would probably get no better.
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Much of the blame is American culture's uncritical glorification of social dominance traits: power, strength, thick-skin, monetary success, and (in the case of women) beauty or at least fitness. We easily forget that people with these traits are every bit as able to commit bad, even evil, acts as good ones. In fact, they're if anything more capable of doing bad to others or to society than are the powerless, timid, sensitive, unsuccessful, and unattractive or unfit. Add to that a huge scoop of Social Darwinism and frankly crude understandings of free will/personal responsibility and you have all the ingredients needed for a "me-centered" society with the attitude "I got mine and to hell with everybody else!".
By the same token, we tend to over-scorn people who lack social dominance traits: powerlessness, weakness, sensitivity, low success, unattractiveness and unfitness. None of those traits signal a deliberate effort to (or conscious willful indifference about) non-defensively hurt, harm, or demean others. Ignoring the pleas of the less fortunate, if long-lasting or callous enough, will transform this nation into another Brazil or South Africa at best and an outright violent revolutionary hellhole at worst. That is why lean, mean, predatory, cutthroat fighting machine societies do not prosper in the long run.
I think that was FDR. Liberals ruin everything they touch.
Newsflash: the Government can't put a chicken in your pot. We're lucky to not have the Government steal a chicken out of your pot then come back to smash your now empty pot.
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Did it happen under Reagan or was it before? We are so quick to do whatever any corporate sociopath executive or lifelong politican tells us to in record numbers.
But I never thought Americans would be so quick to sit down, mask up and lock down without question as they've done the last couple of years. I honestly never saw that coming.
I've thought a lot about it though - and my conclusion is that Trump broke the left ... and badly. The left wanted so badly to listen to anyone who wasn't Trump that when the CDC and Fauci said to jump, they said "how high?" And jumped ... over and over again.
People are morons.
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