I saw this meme on Facebook. It sums up everything I’ve been feeling about American politics lately as well as the Covid 19 situation here in America.
As a society, we Americans have made some pretty terrible choices. We’re a supremely selfish society, bar none. And everyone but us seems to know it.
Thinking only of one’s own comfort at the expense of our fellow human beings only winds up hurting us in the end, too. No one wins.
Here’s a humorous and snarky but all too true look at why cynicism is killing our democracy. There is salty language here, but read it anyway.
We are drowning in cynicism. Cynicism is killing us! Cynicism is destroying our way of life! Honest! You’ve gotta believe me.
And the poster child for cynicism murdering American democracy is the whole Donna Brazile accusations of the Clinton campaign of kidnapping the DNC and hiding the nomination from Sanders just as he was scooping it up in his hot little hands.
A quick aside: This post is one of an interrelated series on (a) the corrosive toxic effect the Ol’ Pussy Grabber’s use of chaos and misinformation (Deflecting to Clinton), (b) the ways social media is changing our culture and interactions (Brain Hack: the Looming Disaster), and (c) how all this is likely to affect the future of our country. The series includes posts and memes. Unfortunately, it means that general information like the Illusion of Truthiness (with appologies to Stephen Colbert)is…
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