US has a ton of problems. We have an opioid problem. We have a corruption problem. We have foreign terrorism problem. We have domestic terrorism problems. We have outside influence problem. We have a schooling problem. We have mental health treatment problem. We have hospital problems. We have a budget problem. We have an aging population problem. We have an immigration policy problem (Too much? Too little? Depends on who you ask). We have election problems, we have voter problems. We have consensus problems. We have polarization problems.
The list goes on and on and on for virtually forever. My point is: we work on ALL the problems, simultaneously, as much as possible. There should be no one suggesting that we only try to solve one or two of these at a time.
We will fail to fix some problems, but we will succeed in fixing other problems. And it will only happen because people will throw their hardest try at fixing all of the problems.
We are ahead in many respects: the population in general knows the wide variety of problems that this country has. So we're able to talk about it. So we're at least at step 1. It'd be nice if we could come to consensus faster, but politics has always been a painfully slow game (Civil Rights took over a decade of demonstrations for example to fix a single issue). This country has always been a bit slow on the uptake, but at least public awareness is generally good.
The list goes on and on and on for virtually forever. My point is: we work on ALL the problems, simultaneously, as much as possible. There should be no one suggesting that we only try to solve one or two of these at a time.
We will fail to fix some problems, but we will succeed in fixing other problems. And it will only happen because people will throw their hardest try at fixing all of the problems.
We are ahead in many respects: the population in general knows the wide variety of problems that this country has. So we're able to talk about it. So we're at least at step 1. It'd be nice if we could come to consensus faster, but politics has always been a painfully slow game (Civil Rights took over a decade of demonstrations for example to fix a single issue). This country has always been a bit slow on the uptake, but at least public awareness is generally good.