The indifference index

How Americans claim to be a caring society, but they do not really care at all.

If there is one thing this election proved, it is that Americans don’t really mean what they say. They have proven beyond a doubt that they:

1. Don’t care about anyone or anything other than themselves.
2. They do not understand how their own government, or theirs and the world’s economy, works — nor do they understand the forces that are working to shape their future.
3. Most importantly, they don’t care about the suffering of others.

The motto of America is now the same as it was since Ronald Reagan came to power. I got mine, fuck you.

With this week’s election, America has chosen to Groundhog Day, its future through a past it can’t yet shake. Donald Trump’s unfitness was clear-cut. He did not try to hide it. Yet about 1% more of the country than did not, think that having a megalomaniac in charge of the nuclear codes was just fine with them. Worse yet, 37% of our population sat on their fat, lazy asses and did not vote.

Wedded to nostalgia for a past that DID NOT exist and not understanding what was actually happening in the economy at large, America collectively decided, “ What the hell, let’s commit national suicide.”