So let me get this straight. Your argument is that you can’t identify problems, even very difficult problems, without providing a solution for them — am I right?
That’s a very strange argument. You don’t expect your doctor who diagnoses your cancer to perform the operation. And it doesn’t actually invalidate the article you are responding to at all.
And what are you proposing as a solution? Why, “get out there and vote”! Never mind that 90% of Americans live in non-swing states so their Presidential votes are mathematically worthless. Never mind that the next Presidential election is between a senile, right-wing old man with a terrible political record, and an actual monster.
And yes, you need to get out there and vote for the senile right-wing old man, because America might not survive another four years of the monster — but the rapey racist guy who thinks that COVID shows why socialized medicine is wrong isn’t going to fix anything.
Things need to be torn down. In particular, the Democratic Party needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up; and then the entire electoral system does.
Were you interested, I could even explain how. I do have a plan — it’s probably the same one as the person you are responding to would have. But it’s pointless to discuss answers until people are convinced of the magnitude of the problem, because any realistic answers to this fiendishly hard problem are going to hurt. Unless you really believe you have cancer, you aren’t going to listen to someone’s plan that involves chopping your leg off, and it’s pointless to even discuss it.
Watching the Democrats nominate one unpopular, right-wing candidate after another is maddening. I personally gave up on America.
After watching the debates and Hillary Clinton fawn over the psychopathic war criminal Henry Kissinger, her close personal friend, I realized that she might not win, and if she did, I no longer wished to participate in that cruel, bellicose and criminal society anymore.
We were gone before Trump took office — I write this overlooking a canal in Amsterdam.
After over thirty years of trying to believe in your country, I think America is unsalvageable, and certainly, your essay is a tiny bit more evidence in that direction. It isn’t going to get fixed until it all collapses. Obama was your last chance to avoid collapse, and he squandered his eight years on pointless wars, sucking the cock of the fossil fuel industry, mic drops and photo ops.
