Once again you nailed it. Sadly, I am not seeing any possible change that will allow the idiots to reverse the course toward their own destruction, along with everyone on the planet. Both economic collapse and climate change are denied and those who attempt to warn us of the future are shouted down with a constant underlying threat of violence as their reward. Violence is always a first choice, not a last resort, to an idiot and America is the most violent society on earth. Americans will be quite happy to go to their destruction as long as they can take the world with them and end up with the most toys.
While there is no shortage of the violence that first comes to mind when hearing the word, most of America’s violence is inflicted upon its own people by the very institutions of government meant to protect them. Violence takes many forms, all of which America has perfected. Many of those forms are institutionalized by the monetary system that forces involuntary unemployment as an acceptable form of economic control. If one is a member of any demographic that is first fired and last hired that “control” may be a death sentence that they are expected to accept without any pushback against the dominant demographic.
Wheeling an uninsured patient out of an emergency room to a bus stop, still clad only in a hospital gown in frigid temps without resolving their illness is violence. Imprisoning more people for non-violent crimes, mostly people of color and often only lacking bail money, than the combined total of most other modern societies is violence. Denying food to children because their parent/custodian tests positive for drug use or fails to find work is violence. Demanding that every benefit paid to the people by the currency-issuing government be offset by cuts to some other benefits while its currency is a cost-free commodity available to fashion and control the economy is violence.
The saddest part of this, to me, is that almost every wealthy modern nation on earth has a monetary system that allows it to spend for the common welfare within the limitation of available resources. In spite of this latitude, the idiots are convinced that their leaders are limited by a finite supply of money used to represent those resources and that the resources themselves are infinite. This causes them to fear the fantasy of running out of money, an imaginary construct of their government, while being oblivious to the wanton destruction of natural resources their economic system demands. Only an idiot would willingly submit to such a system, but there has never been much risk in betting against the intellect of the people in aggregate. None of us is as dumb as all of us.
