Even America’s worst-ever president can educate us.
He calls out fake news. We are not yet calling out fake history.
America’s founders changed as little as they could.
Ending slavery was a start. We killed many of each other.
Howard Zinn’s A People’s History was another start,
James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me has an updated second edition.
There are many more than those two.
Our religiosity is an anchor we have to drag.
Our plutocratic oligarchy? There’s a Move to Amend group out to fix that.
Have you compared our Constitution to those of more recently free nations, i.e. South Africa? Ruth Bader Ginsburg on SCOTUS had good reason to read it.
Be patient, Herb.

How can Americans be so ignorant of the US political system of bribing politicians to enact corporate-friendly policies? Or maybe it’s not ignorance. Maybe we simply CHOOSE to sustain the status quo to maintain our own comforts, the rest of society be damned.

There is an excellent argument for continuing this practice.

If we switch to single payer, how will the health insurance mafia continue to get rich off of the desperation of sick people?

This is America, Profit over People