In the first eight months of the year, 470 mass shootings occurred across the United States, and more than 25,000 Americans have died from gun violence, Gulf News, an English newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, said in a recent opinion piece.
On the flip side, there is good reason — what can Americans even do about it? Organizing anything serious is off the table because the CIA will murder you… and obviously voting blue™ didn’t help
Indeed, there's really no clear path towards things getting better in US. I expect that things will just keep getting steadily worse until the whole house of cards comes crashing down. I think a big factor here is that people in the decision making process are completely insulated from the general public. Most of them don't even realize that majority of people is now suffering. So, there's no impetus to actually improve the conditions for the masses.
Meanwhile, the public lacks any meaningful political education and doesn't understand the root causes of the problems they experience. They just know their lives are getting worse and they're lashing out at the political establishment whom they blame for their problems. This creates space for opportunists like Trump to step in with promises of draining the swamp and such. Of course, once these opportunists get in, nothing improves, and contradictions continue to sharpen.
This is the death spiral that US finds itself in now, and there's no way out of it that I can see.
That's very true, Americans are incredibly cavalier about mass deaths.
On the flip side, there is good reason — what can Americans even do about it? Organizing anything serious is off the table because the CIA will murder you… and obviously voting blue™ didn’t help
Indeed, there's really no clear path towards things getting better in US. I expect that things will just keep getting steadily worse until the whole house of cards comes crashing down. I think a big factor here is that people in the decision making process are completely insulated from the general public. Most of them don't even realize that majority of people is now suffering. So, there's no impetus to actually improve the conditions for the masses.
Meanwhile, the public lacks any meaningful political education and doesn't understand the root causes of the problems they experience. They just know their lives are getting worse and they're lashing out at the political establishment whom they blame for their problems. This creates space for opportunists like Trump to step in with promises of draining the swamp and such. Of course, once these opportunists get in, nothing improves, and contradictions continue to sharpen.
This is the death spiral that US finds itself in now, and there's no way out of it that I can see.