Sunday, July 6, 2025

Welcome to Third-World America

Welcome to third-world America, where:


The prospect of free and fair elections becomes more tenuous; 


The gap between the rich and the poor gets bigger; 


Tax rates of the rich go down, while benefits of the working class and poor, including health care, keep shrinking;


The ruling family’s business keeps growing with visible links to their political posts;


Pseudo science trumps fact-based science; 


Scientific knowledge is subsumed to the will of the executive; 


Vaccines to prevent deadly diseases are not promoted, they’re even critiqued as possible transmitters of illness;


Armed military troops patrol cities though no riots are occurring;


Police brutality, especially against minorities, rises;


Educational standards are lessened;


Environmental protections are watered down; pollution causing fossil fuel industries are encouraged with fewer emissions controls; renewable energy programs are discouraged; 


Free press laws are under assault; 


Executive action supersedes legislative action and cooperation;


Unqualified personnel are placed on judiciary and governmental panels;


Judicial rubber stamps validate questionably legal executive actions; 


Unswerving loyalty to the executive is considered more important than truth-telling; 


Military and sport spectacles are promulgated by the executive as balms for the masses;


“Separate and not equal” is acceptable government practice; 


LGBTQ rights are trampled.