US citizens on the extreme left and right believe the governmental system of the USA has failed. On the right the fear is the government will take away basic personal freedoms. On the left, the belief is the government is only serving the wealthy and will never address the problems of poor people, minorities, undocumented immigrants, and low paid workers.
While I share the concerns of the leftists, I think things are more complex than that. The human world has never achieved anything like an enlightened ideal state of peace, freedom, good will, justice empowerment and safety. Societies always have competing social forces driven by caring and uncaring beliefs and agendas that play out in a tremendous unfolding process no one is able to control or even predict reliably. Right now the USA has swung into a destructive, divisive period where wiser and more insightful people have lacked the power to prevent dangerous and destructive agendas from being implemented. I'm concerned for global civilization for reasons all of us know. The best thing I can think of to do is to to be a good influence in my little social network and hope for the best.
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