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I'd go with 'embittered' rather than 'fatigued.'

The flipside to the Reaganite vision of everything for everybody in the shining city on a hill is what happens when you can't/don't get it.

As you and I have said here many times, the expectation and the default setting now for the American consumer at every level of society is luxury. There's really nothing left of the Depression mentality of simplicity or subsistence or enough.

And rather than curb this insatiable appetite in folks, we encourage it. Because capitalism needs growth, there's no such thing as enough. There's only more.

10th Commandment was pretty good on this, as was Buddha.

Suffering is wanting.

 

This is really well written and worth a read, especially if you have skin in this particular game.

How Tennessee Became the Poster State for Political Meltdown

 

"Get this. An "anti-woke" board game company is putting out a new version of Clue. It won't have a library amongst the rooms and it will be replaced by a Nazi memorabilia gallery."

 

That would be one way to motivate young people to vote, but probably not in a way that the people proposing such a measure would like.

 

Maybe.

But if you include a debt-free college education - and a path to home ownership - it might motivate young people to vote for it in droves.

Depends on how we frame it, I think, and how we fund it.

 

That would make more sense, but it would have to be a debt-free college education for everyone who participates, not something capped by family income, and that gets expensive.

 

Tell me, is there anything so sure?
Rapacity, tenacity, capacity for more
Like a dog that feeds until he suffers
The infirmity of man is brought on by his selfish cure

 

We have the money to do these things, we just don't have the will.

There's no reason any kid in America shouldn't be able to attend their state's land grant university for free. Right now.

Instead, we build more prisons.

 

I agree. I just don't see it happening.

 

Trump Steamrolls Tucker Carlson on His Own Show

Cucker Tarlson

 

The 21st century and we're still stuck here:

Do More Than Half of Americans Read Below 6th-Grade Level?