If you had to summarize (what you believe) was wrong with this country in one overarching issue, what would it be?
Entitlement? Sensitivity? Violence?
Feel free to expand as little or as much as you wish, but do try and keep it to the single most significant issue.
Simple… Put unadulterated ignorance.
By this i mean people that think they have an answer to questions they do not even understand.
Financial,
Income disparity is snuffing out the middle class. Most issues can be pointed to that.
Tax code needs to be fixed, corporations shipping financial gain overseas while not increasing job opportunities.
Lack of corporal punishment in public schools since 1960.
Kids need to learn from an EARLY age - STOOPID has repercussions, & it hurts!
The media. Between them fanning the flames with false info on multiple topics and their refusal to do even a little bit of investigating into government corruption, they have totally bastardized what they once stood for.
Facebook and CNN
Political Correctness. You can no longer “speak your mind” without fear of someone taking offense and more importantly having the courts enforce punishment on what you expressed.
Lack of patriotism! People are voting to maintain their position in life with NO regard for the future of our country.
progressives
pretty much at the root of all the problems that has happened to the country the biggest of course is which the whole communist ideas of the collective not the individual and of course how has that worked out for communist countries ? and we are now on that path
Well let me tell you, it didn’t end in the 60’s. I was in elementary school in the 80’s and I had teachers beat the shit out of me! Paddles, yard sticks, their hands, you name it. My 3rd grade teacher, a hulk of a man, once picked me up and held me by my hair! All of this was encouraged by my mother. In this day and age, her and half of my teachers would have been arrested.
As far as the problems in America, it’s more than one thing.
This is a symptom of the problem, not the problem.
The problem that there is little real economic growth. Even the weak growth that we have is largely just iEconomy- not really improvements, just slicker things. We are actually in a deflationary general cycle based on demand, but we keep shoving money into the economy- but it is staying at the corporate level tied up on the balance sheet looking for ever smaller gains. It looks like corps are making mad money, but that is because there is inflation in the finance sector that hasn’t leaked into the real economy- yet.
We have lower growth and the issues above because the general nature of a more slowly growing populace and we have already built our infrastructure (not that it couldn’t use a refresh). That is cyclical, but the related issue is that we have gotten way over burdened in regulations and complexity. It is way harder to start a company than it was 30 years ago- and I’m not talking about doing some app that will be forgotten in a few months- I’m talking about really making things. Low opportunities mean that younger people, don’t see the advantage of working hard if things aren’t going to change for them much.
We have entered a time of ‘masterbation economics’. A whole lot of hand waving and jerking around, but not really getting you anywhere, but you feel better in the short term.
Plus, listen closely;
You can’t talk about income inequality while you are letting in metric ass loads of poor people into our country. That isn’t a corporate greed problem, it is a math problem.
That said, the one thing that would address all the problems is some sort of balanced budget at the Federal level. This free money gives Progressives all the money they want for their plans and papers over the price for it. Even Rahm Emmanuel had to balance a budget in Chicago and all of a sudden, he wasn’t so liberal anymore and was attacked for it.
The federal budget makes whores out of politicians and leads to most of the issues listed here either directly or by effect.
Immorality, which is the result of Soviet subversion, a seed planted many decades ago finally comi to fruition.
This is correct, without morality, man is unrestrained. It is the problem identified in the Garden of Eden, where Adam (man) takes the fruit by choice. Eve was tricked into it.
Close to my opinion. I say lack of God and faith. If people base their morality on society, and society goes to crap, your beliefs have no foundation.
This leads to words not having meaning
Equality means everyone gets the same outcome
No one needs to take responsibility for their actions.
Work ethic goes to crap
Society dictates what is right, and entertainers control society, and got controls entertainers, so we are now controlled, unknowingly by the govt.
Rights then come from govt and can arbitrarily be taken away.
Liberalism
There is no morality. There are things we say before we do things and things we say after we do them to justify them. It really doesn’t stop what we are going to do.
Lack of critical thought capability gets my vote.
The Collective lack of a sense of humor.
Wow! ONE thing.
IMO it is the ‘screw you buddy, I’ve got mine’ mentality that permeates America today. The most American question of all is not ‘What can I for America/Society/Others?’ (kind of like the heroes of our childhood) rather it is ‘What’s in it for me?’
In a nutshell people don’t care about other people anymore, only themselves and their special interests.
We’ve seen the evolution of a political system that allows rich corporations and individuals to buy elections. We are only concerned that the other party does right and follows the rule of decency and law, our side gets a pass. Has either Democratic or Republican party official EVER caged their own party’s voter registration rolls?
We’ve long been a Nation that’s foreign policy doesn’t reflect what is right in terms of Judeo-Christian Values, rather what is most expedient. What do you think the Founding Fathers would have put in the Constitution about the planned, prolonged torture/mistreatment of prisoners/enemy combatants? (I’m not talking battlefield expedient here, gang)
We’ve become a Nation where achieving our ends justifies the means.
That was long, but it is one theme.
Oh this is an easy one Euro.
The single biggest problem with America today is . . .
Homo sapiens
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noun
the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong, characterized by a brain capacity averaging 1400 cc (85 cubic in.) and by dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools.
humankind.