With income inequality growing, and the middle class getting squeezed, we are seeing a great divide. I think a lot of what fuels Trumpism is anger towards how difficult it has become to make it in America, with illegal immigrants being an easy scapegoat.
Unfortunately, Trump and his policies will certainly make this divide worse. As we saw last time, all of his policies heavily favor the haves while leaving the rest with scraps.
During covid, he printed out checks for $2,000 for every American taxpayer, while giving out 100x that much to businesses. Of course, inflation was the result and that $2,000 pretty much became worthless.
I think our nation is going down a path that is going to lead to trouble.
Great post Purple! Thank you for the Kaczynski connection -- it adds more than "nuance" to the larger story. Your comments on the cognitive (and moral?) distress that can attend big/rapid societal change makes me think of Alvin Toffler, or even all the way back to Emile Durkheim.
Roger Kaufman was a giant in the area of "Needs Assessment", and always argued that meaningful organizational NA had to (or at least should) start with consideration of societal-level goals. When an effort is grand enough we will ALWAY encounter the unexpected and previously unknown -- it is the shared mega vision and goals that will help "the people" writ large negotiate those developments. We do not presently have a common vision of the best role and use of technology or health-care in our society, and we don't seem to have current "Leaders" with the grit and intellectual horsepower to help us articulate a common vision. The closest we seem to get right now is some folks whose vision involves power and control rather than flourishing potential.
I think this is a sign of things to come.
With income inequality growing, and the middle class getting squeezed, we are seeing a great divide. I think a lot of what fuels Trumpism is anger towards how difficult it has become to make it in America, with illegal immigrants being an easy scapegoat.
Unfortunately, Trump and his policies will certainly make this divide worse. As we saw last time, all of his policies heavily favor the haves while leaving the rest with scraps.
During covid, he printed out checks for $2,000 for every American taxpayer, while giving out 100x that much to businesses. Of course, inflation was the result and that $2,000 pretty much became worthless.
I think our nation is going down a path that is going to lead to trouble.
Great post Purple! Thank you for the Kaczynski connection -- it adds more than "nuance" to the larger story. Your comments on the cognitive (and moral?) distress that can attend big/rapid societal change makes me think of Alvin Toffler, or even all the way back to Emile Durkheim.
Roger Kaufman was a giant in the area of "Needs Assessment", and always argued that meaningful organizational NA had to (or at least should) start with consideration of societal-level goals. When an effort is grand enough we will ALWAY encounter the unexpected and previously unknown -- it is the shared mega vision and goals that will help "the people" writ large negotiate those developments. We do not presently have a common vision of the best role and use of technology or health-care in our society, and we don't seem to have current "Leaders" with the grit and intellectual horsepower to help us articulate a common vision. The closest we seem to get right now is some folks whose vision involves power and control rather than flourishing potential.