Americans today have this capacity for thinking that if our house is warm in winter, food and drink is available on the grocery shelf, our delivery pizza and our cable/streaming TV continues, and no one is trying to break into our abode, life is secure and livable. It is only if and when there is disruption and we are shaken out of our comfort zone that we take much notice. The problems we see in media aren’t here, don’t affect us . . . until they do. Then we think someone should have done something to prevent the disruption.
What we fail to acknowledge is that problems start small and when unaddressed often get bigger. There is the old saying, “Nip it in the bud!” — when problems are small don’t allow them to get bigger, but we are. It’s like the person that has a small cancer that hadn’t yet caused symptoms — the person thinks, “I feel fine. They don’t know what they are talking about.” Over time the cancer continues to grow and then cause symptoms that finally demand the person’s attention. At that point, the person wants treatment, to relieve those symptoms. But it’s too late — they waited too long and the cancer has spread and is not amenable to treatment. The cancer so easily ignored is now threatening the person’s life — they are “terminal”.
That is similar to what has been happening in US for years. We stopped buying American-made products and those products stopped being made here. Good-paying jobs were lost, but people found lesser jobs and, “Hey, look at all the cheap stuff I got!” Americans no longer had/have the income that supported a lifestyle they can no longer afford — so they go into debt to afford it. Americans counted on the value in their homes to support their rising debt, but then the housing market collapsed, and with it the banks that would no longer loan money, and the stock market fell, and major U.S. corporations that could no longer borrow money and could not sell products to Americans that have no money to buy them are then facing bankruptcy — more people out of work.
US has had millions of impoverished migrants from other countries coming into U.S. for over 30 years. Many of these people don’t care to join America, they just want a better material life and not to get shot at. They need services — a lot of them. They take jobs for scant pay, undercutting American workers that won’t or can’t work for such low pay. Poverty increases, people’s upsets and dissension increase, and people are increasingly up in arms in US.
US has rapidly-increasing National Debt — has more expenses than money coming in, so every year more than $1 Trillon is added to the Debt. China continues to make threats and be a risk; other places in the world see war break out, which costs US more money it doesn’t have to try to calm it. China, and Russia, continue to hack US government and business computer systems, stealing our information and technologies, to use against US.
And, all the while Americans that aren’t yet directly impacted seek to ignore the problems. Like the cancer that grows out of control, the myriad problems US faces continue to grow out of control . . . until they are huge problems impacting every American, and now problems that are devastating to the society and with no end or remedy in sight. Yes it can, probably will, happen at the current trajectory we are on. US can collapse, while we are face down in our computer screens.
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