American Turning Point Imminent

[AFTT47]

This is a long video (42 minutes) by Professor Jeffrey David Sachs in which he argues that the present extreme polarization in America is rapidly approaching a breaking point. He argues that the worsening wealth inequality and the people's near-total lack of trust or confidence in the system is unsustainable. It's an excellent speech IMO. Those interested in American politics should give it a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tCGNvQf6Ro

[Mister Agenda]

My continued optimism depends on the USA having fair midterm elections. Which I'm not very optimistic about.

[Fireball]

The chump bunch planted the seed of "rigged elections" in 2016, and they kept it up even after gaining the White House. We're seeing that bear even more tainted fruit, now.

[Leonardo17]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^As much as I admire Dr. Tyson (a lot), his Rationalia suffers from the same flaw as every other utopian blueprint: it fails to take human nature into account.  Human beings are not rational animals - we are rationalizing animals.

Boru

[awty]

[The Grand Nudger]

To this I want to add my conviction that Religion and politics it’s such a bad mixture because, again, it’s the opposite of Rationalia utopia and turns religion into something %100 irrational. (Ex: Modi in India, Political Islam in the Middle East, MAGA and affiliates in the US, Israel under Netanyahu)

Religion is politics, and to the extent that it's opposite to rational thought that's only because a particular religion insists.  No one is doing that to those religions.  Theyre not being turned into anything.  That's their fundamental nature.

[Thumpalumpacus]

To this I want to add my conviction that Religion and politics it’s such a bad mixture because, again, it’s the opposite of Rationalia utopia and turns religion into something %100 irrational. (Ex: Modi in India, Political Islam in the Middle East, MAGA and affiliates in the US, Israel under Netanyahu)

Religion is politics, and to the extent that it's opposite to rational thought that's only because a particular religion insists.  No one is doing that to those religions.  Theyre not being turned into anything.  That's their fundamental nature.

Yet that doesn't prevent a firewall. Look at Western Europe.

[The Grand Nudger]

In theory, sure, but not in practice, and to the extent that we're willing to lay aside that the history and boundaries of western european nations were written by religious politics, and that they currently have their own overtly religious and ascendant right wing movements, the hypothetical bulwark in those nations is itself a secular civil religion. Same as here.

[Thumpalumpacus]

In theory, sure, but not in practice, and to the extent that we're willing to lay aside that the history and boundaries of western european nations were written by religious politics, and that they currently have their own overtly religious and ascendant right wing movements, the hypothetical bulwark in those nations is itself a secular civil religion.  Same as here.

If everything's a religion, then nothing's a religion. What you're arguing is nonfalsifiable under those circumstances, so I won't bother any more.