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Originally Posted by butterfly
Excellent read.
These are the problems that face some people participating in this thread. I detect anger and resentment rather than a desire to understand and analyze what caused this.
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We know how we got here. Decades of horrible people and capitalism creating news cycles of awfulness for dollars while buying off politicians who are meant to protect form this. Once they realized they could get away with making stuff up for endless money and lying to their audiences, we were all doomed. And they've even admitted all of this. It's no secret.
The author also mentions values. Well there's another problem. Religions imposing unalterable unquestionable values on society that have little basis on fact or reason, but are now fundamental parts of so many people's value systems that are in direct conflict with a free and fair society. People don't just change values, even when they are fundamentally evil, because they were formed as such a deep rooted part of their beliefs when they were so young that they could be imprinted. But no one wants to have these discussions, because how dare you question religion and values and discriminate against their beliefs.
I think the window is closing on any chance of stopping this, given how deep the US government and it's politicians are so deeply infused with religion, how it is one and the same to them, their government, their roles, their society all wrapped in god.