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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe are Living in a Failed State - George Packer, the Atlantic
From the June, 2020 issue:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share
PLEASE READ AND SHARE
dalton99a
(81,539 posts)young_at_heart
(3,770 posts)for Republicans to wake up?
Nay
(12,051 posts)Aristus
(66,430 posts)The end of America.
I guess all that flag-waving and anthem-singing was a smokescreen. We got taken in by the worst kind of pseudo-patriotism.
eppur_se_muova
(36,274 posts)They don't believe gov't SHOULD work, so they force practice to match their "principles".
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Zoonart
(11,874 posts)She this around folks.
niyad
(113,474 posts)kairos12
(12,862 posts)Chainfire
(17,576 posts)The state has not failed those it serves.
If you happen to be one of the vast majority that it does not serve, too bad, so sorry, get back to work.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)SouthernCal_Dem
(852 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Thank you for posting.
LuvNewcastle
(16,847 posts)Packer does a great job exposing the players behind this mess we have, especially Jared Kushner. I wish Fox viewers were required to read this article, but I know they won't. Too much truth for them.
crickets
(25,981 posts)SouthernCal_Dem
(852 posts)Perhaps the best analysis of our current situation that I've ever read.
Brilliant.
Larissa
(790 posts)Reading this article bolted me to my chair. We knew all of this: we live it and know it every day. But Packer crystallized it.
superpatriotman
(6,251 posts)He was on M$NBC this a.m. and I wanted to reach into the screen to shake his hand (gloved!)
erronis
(15,313 posts)superpatriotman
(6,251 posts)universal basic income
decarceration
deindustrialization of the food system
broadband as utility
progressive industrial policy (bringing back small manufacturing)