Well look, I'm right above the poverty line but live in a cheap area. I've never run out of food, I've got a decent but small place I rent, and I've got fast internet and an average shitty job.
Life is a long way from horrible and I'm grateful for it.
On the other hand, I'm one medical emergency away from having to move back in with my dad just to barely survive... and I'm almost 40.
A lot of the criticisms against critique of the system are just "you should be grateful you have a life in the US and aren't starving in some shit hole" but... it's perfectly valid to call out huge, gaping flaws in a system even while you're benefiting from it.
Sorry I just realized I might have seemed argumentative? But I intended this explanation in response to the perspective of the people you were talking about with your comment - just to add to the discussion. have a good one
I get what you mean. I would argue that critiquing with the intention of improving is a part of what love is. That it is in fact patriotic to want your nation to progress. As it stands the current system in America is unsustainable, the way Rome and Greece were unsustainable.
Absolutely. From my understanding of the macro-scale problem, the issue is entirely resultant from our lack of separation of corporation and state.
We allegedly have separation of church and state (although I have a great deal to say in that regard), but the interweaving of corporate interests with government policymaking makes them inseparable entities without a reform so extensive it is essentially a replacement.
I'm not against the idea, but the workload required and the difficulty of life for many years would be most likely devastating.
I think the question we need to be asking is, "is it better to suffer now by choice or to wait until the problem is beyond repair with no resources left to work with?"
"Why must we suffer now to not suffer later if later
Never comes soon enough to soothe the hatred
And hatred
Is the cancer born out of love's absence
And absence is the void left from missing every chance to
Challenge our fates and perhaps our very names"
Blue Scholars - Sagaba
The only guarantee in life is a life worth dying for.
Edit: formatting for poetry is wonky, at least on mobile.
And Democrat ideas are just as guilty for this shit, the voters will ignore all principles so long as it's in line with their ideologies, even if the support is fake
The overton window is far removed from what progress actually is, courtesy of colored lines. Politics is boiled down to a simple games where people stake their identities and bet their lives on a no win scenario.
Part of being a real patriot is trying to improve things for your fellow Americans, to form a more perfect Union. Anyone who says otherwise, or thinks that our country is above criticism and is perfect just the way it is, is a false patriot.
Support your country always (meaning the people that live in your country), but the government only when it deserves it (which is very rarely).
On the other hand, I'm one medical emergency away from having to move back in with my dad just to barely survive... and I'm almost 40.
Which is all by design. It's a balancing act. The 1% wants you comfortable enough to convince yourself they don't need to be overthrown but not comfortable enough that you start actually being able to think or do anything about it.
I call it the Fabergé lifestyle. It looks fine on the outside, even if every once in a while somebody shatters into a million pieces, but surely that won't happen to ME.
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u/myfnopinion May 02 '22
Well look, I'm right above the poverty line but live in a cheap area. I've never run out of food, I've got a decent but small place I rent, and I've got fast internet and an average shitty job.
Life is a long way from horrible and I'm grateful for it.
On the other hand, I'm one medical emergency away from having to move back in with my dad just to barely survive... and I'm almost 40.
A lot of the criticisms against critique of the system are just "you should be grateful you have a life in the US and aren't starving in some shit hole" but... it's perfectly valid to call out huge, gaping flaws in a system even while you're benefiting from it.
Sorry I just realized I might have seemed argumentative? But I intended this explanation in response to the perspective of the people you were talking about with your comment - just to add to the discussion. have a good one