06-26-2018, 11:00 AM
(06-26-2018, 10:18 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I also read an opinion piece, though just now. Here it is: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/trump-sarah-huckabee-sanders-restaurant-civility.html
Agree or disagree with it, I really don't care. The main point of the piece is that things like this aren't because civility is breaking down, it is because democracy is breaking down. One thing I can say for certain is that democracy is breaking down in this country. Our plutocratic government has for decades been increasingly ignoring the vast majority of the citizenry to pass laws and enact policies that favor their own. As the bottom 90% or more of the population fights with each other for a smaller and smaller piece of the economic pie here in the US, the wealthy keep racking up more profits and increasing their political influence. They make sure to keep people focused on immigration so that the white people beneath them keep their ire focused on the brown and black people instead of on the wealthy who are really responsible for their ills.
Societies operate in cycles. Always have, likely always will. Our founders tried to change that but some segments of society decided to ignore what they said and did. They made it strong, there is a reason we have the oldest written constitution still in use, today. I don't know how much longer it is going to last, though. I only hope the change comes via the ballot box.
Follow up now that I read it:
Brilliant.
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