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This weekly thread will focus on The Future Of The USA. You may not be American (I'm sure not), but what happens with America can impact the world.
Some Starters (and don’t feel you have to speak on all or any of them if you don’t care to):
- How do you feel things are going there?
- How are they impacting relations with your country if you aren't from America?
- Do you think things will get better or worse?
- How do you think things could be made better?
- What should other countries do to mitigate the damage that may be occurring?
- What are your thoughts on tariffs?
Trump is a massive problem, but he's not the ROOT problem. He's more indicative of the deeper running problems than a cause. Decades of consolidating power at the top set things up for a single bad actor to be incredibly destructive.
Some of us have been waving the flag about that issue for years and consistently been told that being concerned about a malevolent or dictatorial presence gaining office in the US or Canada is crazy...
Some of us said Obamacare was a bad approach, not because the US didn't need health reform (they did and still do, obviously) but that it needed to be either towards single payer or other socialization and not utilizing insurance companies in the mix. Mainly because the proposed changes were putting too much power in the hands of insurance companies, and would result in less functional coverage and increased costs to citizens within about 10 years....
The state of affairs south of the border right now has me feeling sad and horrified, but also a little vindicated.
At the end of the day, everything happening right now is about a bunch of crony corporatists trying to extract every bit of value they can at the expense of everything else. Everyone with a stake is trying to get rich, and give the corpos the most control possible going forward.
Cyberpunk was never supposed to be an instructive dystopian genre.