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MANY Americans aren't ready to hear these things. The rest of us are well-aware of them. We're glad that you're sharing your criticisms, and waiting for y'all to share with us how to implement your well-thought-out and practical, abiding solutions.
Most of these comments have built-in solutions.
"You should stop shooting each other." Solution: stop shooting each other.
"Universal healthcare is better" -- if you can't see a suggestion there I don't know what to tell you.
Right but our country just elected a fascist who wants to install himself as dictator for life, so how do we actually move towards implementation of any of those things considering neither are supported by the ruling party or the corporations that have fully entrapped our government?
Better find out the answer to that question quickly too, because it's coming for your country next.
PSA To everybody else: that last sentence is a trap. Said famously before they yell “COMMUNIST” in your face should you suggest any working solutions currently in play anywhere else. Don’t fall for it. Just move on with a sense of relief you avoided the poop on the sidewalk today.
I don't have any solutions i'm sorry.
Aparently half the voting populace is hell bent on their own destruction.
Then certainly some ideas from a much saner region can reach that half, right? (Telling them to stop watching Fox News is not going to work.) (OTOH Britain ... Brexit ...)
I'm in Australia. We're not any better than the US or Britain though. Sliding to the right, no climate action, concentration of wealth, et cetera. We didn't just elect Trump, but I fear that time is coming.
I think in these troubled times you just have to focus on the things you can control and practice tolerance and serenity for the rest.
In practice this means investing your time and effort in performing the ideals you want to uphold. Whether that's saying hello to a neighbor donating to a charity, or regularly volunteering for a cause you care about.
At this point, it's strong charities and community groups that will mitigate the challenges that will emerge in the coming years.
Fully agreed, and thanks for the constructive thoughts!
I think the Orang is the last hurrah of a long, sad part of a US subtext of which Reagan was the first Chapter, and he is the defiant last chapter. There is enough light in the world today to carry us through it.
Oh haha did you think any of them actually have any solutions? No they just want to complain and pretend they are better than others.
people down voting you but IMO
is absolutely an American trait.
I think a lot of the complaints are coming from people in countries that don't know their own histories so well. Consider the damages European colonizers inflicted on Africa and the far East up until the 1960s. Hell Europeans didn't even stop the killings in Europe until then. But it seems they earned some hard-learned lessons since (like Helsinki's solution for homelessness) (and making the Raspberry Pi) and keeping the peace in Europe. There MUST be some well-thought-out solutions to be shared, right?