my kid's spanish teacher from spain working in the states on a 3 year work visa told him that of all the countries she's been to (not sure how many and which ones), she feels the most unsafe in the united states. like that or not, it's saying quite a bit. are there other more unsafe countries out there? sure. but, it really hit me.
OP has a legit point and question. this country is on a downward spiral. an analogy would be the city of gotham in the batman series, specifically batman begins, when the city has become so corrupt and the league of shadows led by Ra's Al Ghul aim to purge the city of all the corruption by killing everybody and starting over. hell, if anything, the league of shadows could have been the true savior of the city by ridding it of all the corruption. gee, a good thing batman was around to prevent that and keep the corruption going.
i understand this post will be made fun of, and, it's all good. i'm not advocating for a purge of society as we know it to get rid of corruption. but, what can be done? as OP said, we're picking up momentum as we spiral downward. where/how/why did the downward spiral start? i'm sure some of the "you're a piece of shit dem/pub" crowd will say it was one political side or the other which is bullshit. at this point, i can't see anything being done to alleviate the downward spiral of this society into the dumpster fire it's bound for.
perhaps i'm seeing things more dark than they are. we had a kid in one of our schools that was found to have a list of "bullies" they were going to do away with. kid is obviously fukt in the head . . . his mother birthed his brother outside of the hospital, put him in a trash bag, and threw it out along side the road. kid's father hasn't ever had anything to do with him. kid will be put up as a POS criminal that needs to be put away, when, in reality, he's the victim of this society. this is one small example of the shit society we have spiraled down into.
i get so tired of hearing "wasn't like this 20/30/40 years ago when i was a kid". yeah, you're right, it wasn't. and, you're part of the problem that society is the way it is now. let's get high and conceive a child that'll end up more fukt in the head than a soup sandwich. let's give little tommy and susie things we didn't have. you know, we worked our asses off for everything, lets give everything to them so they'll expect everything in life to be given to them.
it's not the kids' fault they are all fukt up in the head these days, it's not the millennials' fault they're a bunch of fuhkups . . . it's the parents' fault for raising them like they did.
