America’s Moral Malady

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/02/a-new-poor-peoples-campaign/552503/

Today we face a national crisis that is in many ways an intensifying of the storm that rocked America in 1968. But too often, our attempts to diagnose what ails us cannot get past the tired debates of left-versus-right politics. King’s analysis was that interlocking systems of violence, literal and metaphorical—which he called racism, poverty, and militarism—blinded most Americans to the lives of people in places like Marks. Until a Poor People’s Campaign compelled Americans to see “them” as “us,” the ideal of America would remain beyond reach.

In the richest society in human history, nearly half of the population lives in poverty or is struggling to make ends meet.

Four diseases, all connected, now threaten the nation’s social and moral health: racism, poverty, environmental devastation, and the war economy—sanctified by the heresy of Christian nationalism. 

[ZA_US 27]

The divisiveness in the US has reached such a disturbing level. Instead of fighting for the common good, it's all about "us" versus "them". Both sides of the fight cannot lay claim to a moral high ground. If your only inclination is to throw stones at people you perceive as less human than yourself, then you will never build anything of value. I have stopped following the "news". Not because it is fake but because it is fueling the fires of contempt on both sides. We're all being played while Rome is burning.

Edited March 31, 2018 by ZA_US
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[Dashinka 24,767]

So this all started with the election of Trump?  Maybe it was already there and Trump just capitalized on it?

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

9 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

So this all started with the election of Trump?  Maybe it was already there and Trump just capitalized on it?

New investigation Secret Russian Hooker files prove, Trump is responsible for this .

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Póg mo 1,749]

38 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

So this all started with the election of Trump?  Maybe it was already there and Trump just capitalized on it?

It did? Where exactly did the op state that? 

29 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

New investigation Secret Russian Hooker files prove, Trump is responsible for this .

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wait, Obama is no longer responsible for this?

[spookyturtle 9,466]

3 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

New investigation Secret Russian Hooker files prove, Trump is responsible for this .

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s leaning sharply to the right, so it must be. 

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

3 hours ago, Póg mo said:

It did? Where exactly did the op state that? 

Wait, Obama is no longer responsible for this?

Impossible.  It doesn’t lean left...

 

ETA: Dang, Spooky beat me to it!

Edited March 31, 2018 by IDWAF

[Dashinka 24,767]

4 hours ago, Póg mo said:

It did? Where exactly did the op state that? 

Wait, Obama is no longer responsible for this?

Actually, it did specify the 2016election as being one of the divisive incidents.  I wonder why this writer didn’t delve into the DNCs identity politics as being divisive?