It’s a catch 22 and virtuous/unvirtuous cycle of good education and environmental contributors that don’t encourage these always present and tempting weaknesses in humanity:
Wealth distribution: in economies with very unequal distribution of wealth many are told there constantly isn’t enough. This mindset drives horrible behavior in humans dating back to our reptilian brain core.
Visibility and attainability of meritocracy vs. corruption, cronyism and/or Nepotism
We’ve had powerful interests poisoning the well for going on 160 years in the south after the civil war, corporations’ ascendence since aligned perfectly with the South’s desire to weaken the federal state. Now instead of destroying it, they’ve subsumed it and will repurpose it for fully anti-democratic aims and accelerate already strong perceptions of federal government ineffectiveness thanks to 40 years of neoliberal abandonment of the common person’s needs in pursuit of corporate donations for the Democratic party.
It’s either civil war, an authoritarian state that might be very long or short lived depending on your preference of dystopian movies or magical and dramatic recapture of political power and agency of the American public. The last one seems the least likely in the short term.
It’s a catch 22 and virtuous/unvirtuous cycle of good education and environmental contributors that don’t encourage these always present and tempting weaknesses in humanity:
Wealth distribution: in economies with very unequal distribution of wealth many are told there constantly isn’t enough. This mindset drives horrible behavior in humans dating back to our reptilian brain core.
Visibility and attainability of meritocracy vs. corruption, cronyism and/or Nepotism
We’ve had powerful interests poisoning the well for going on 160 years in the south after the civil war, corporations’ ascendence since aligned perfectly with the South’s desire to weaken the federal state. Now instead of destroying it, they’ve subsumed it and will repurpose it for fully anti-democratic aims and accelerate already strong perceptions of federal government ineffectiveness thanks to 40 years of neoliberal abandonment of the common person’s needs in pursuit of corporate donations for the Democratic party.
It’s either civil war, an authoritarian state that might be very long or short lived depending on your preference of dystopian movies or magical and dramatic recapture of political power and agency of the American public. The last one seems the least likely in the short term.