Three breaking stories, one rigged operating system — grief harvested into tribal theater, Gulf money calling shots on war, and $1.776B political payoff fund. Why both sides play the owners' game.
Thank you for your article , very interesting ! Concerning the shooting : of course the Republicans will not do anything about automatic weapons of mass destruction or any guns for that matter because of their undying love of the NRA and of course their funding , the Dems lately are in a feeding frenzy over donations ! Every day at least 20 begging and pleading inundate my iPhone , and they are not all candidates most are in Congress when Johnson allows them to be there , and that slush fund should go to the American people who have to wake up every day with new anxiety , WE are political prisoners !! And something is wrong when ya gotta pay Allies ! We still have Allies ??? In my opinion Donald fired upon Iran after Netanyahu flattered him for an hour , neither realizing that Iran is NOT Venezuela !! The amount of problems from this fiasco is a whole lot more than oil prices and I’m sorry BUT if North Korea has Nukes then everyone should have them except us at this point !!
Hi Linda. I think a lot of Americans relate to that exhaustion right now. People feel financially squeezed, emotionally overloaded, politically manipulated, and constantly told to panic while the people in power keep fundraising off the chaos instead of solving it.
Where I try to stay careful is separating understandable anger from conclusions that can make an already dangerous world even more unstable. I absolutely understand the frustration with endless war, lobbying influence, political money, and institutional hypocrisy. But a world where every nation races toward nuclear weapons isn’t a safer world for ordinary people. It’s a world where human error, ego, or one unstable leader can end millions of lives in an afternoon. Humanity already struggles handling Twitter arguments without threatening civilization.
I also think both parties deserve criticism for feeding fear while often failing to restore public trust. Republicans too often protect systems they claim to oppose. Democrats too often campaign on moral urgency while struggling to deliver structural reform people can actually feel in daily life.
The deeper issue underneath all of this is that citizens increasingly feel powerless inside institutions that no longer appear accountable. That loss of trust is dangerous, because once people stop believing the system can self-correct peacefully, they start becoming emotionally open to escalation, extremism, or nihilism.
That’s the part I think we should all take seriously.
Thank you for your article , very interesting ! Concerning the shooting : of course the Republicans will not do anything about automatic weapons of mass destruction or any guns for that matter because of their undying love of the NRA and of course their funding , the Dems lately are in a feeding frenzy over donations ! Every day at least 20 begging and pleading inundate my iPhone , and they are not all candidates most are in Congress when Johnson allows them to be there , and that slush fund should go to the American people who have to wake up every day with new anxiety , WE are political prisoners !! And something is wrong when ya gotta pay Allies ! We still have Allies ??? In my opinion Donald fired upon Iran after Netanyahu flattered him for an hour , neither realizing that Iran is NOT Venezuela !! The amount of problems from this fiasco is a whole lot more than oil prices and I’m sorry BUT if North Korea has Nukes then everyone should have them except us at this point !!
Hi Linda. I think a lot of Americans relate to that exhaustion right now. People feel financially squeezed, emotionally overloaded, politically manipulated, and constantly told to panic while the people in power keep fundraising off the chaos instead of solving it.
Where I try to stay careful is separating understandable anger from conclusions that can make an already dangerous world even more unstable. I absolutely understand the frustration with endless war, lobbying influence, political money, and institutional hypocrisy. But a world where every nation races toward nuclear weapons isn’t a safer world for ordinary people. It’s a world where human error, ego, or one unstable leader can end millions of lives in an afternoon. Humanity already struggles handling Twitter arguments without threatening civilization.
I also think both parties deserve criticism for feeding fear while often failing to restore public trust. Republicans too often protect systems they claim to oppose. Democrats too often campaign on moral urgency while struggling to deliver structural reform people can actually feel in daily life.
The deeper issue underneath all of this is that citizens increasingly feel powerless inside institutions that no longer appear accountable. That loss of trust is dangerous, because once people stop believing the system can self-correct peacefully, they start becoming emotionally open to escalation, extremism, or nihilism.
That’s the part I think we should all take seriously.