1) An actual attempt to overturn the results of a democratic election by 1) subterfuge and manipulation of the rules violating long-standing practice and acceptance; and 2) Violence and the threat of violence (1/6);
2) The danger that those with power, money, and influence will exercise those things in increasingly corrupt and increasingl…
1) An actual attempt to overturn the results of a democratic election by 1) subterfuge and manipulation of the rules violating long-standing practice and acceptance; and 2) Violence and the threat of violence (1/6);
2) The danger that those with power, money, and influence will exercise those things in increasingly corrupt and increasingly open ways, essentially validating the generalized perception that rules are for suckers and further weakening societal cohesion, law, and order.
3) Racism and societal corruption in general. They are "talked" about in the sense that sides scream at each other, but there is no actual, meaningful, and substantive conversation that will actually address existing issues in a substantive fashion. One side is exceptionally angry and screaming about it and the other side is busy denying it exists or that it has already been solved.
In general, I would characterize out current state in this country (and in Western Civilization as a whole) as a Crisis of Faith. Governance and order is the result of a shared reality and adherence to a shared set of principles and world view. Our society has willfully fractured itself in the pursuit of wealth and individual rights, and plain out selfishness and self-entitlement. We have lost faith in both religion and in governance (different groups for different reasons).
Many have little or no faith in established or institutionalized religion (for good cause) and its alternative, governance, is also held in contempt. What is left?
1) An actual attempt to overturn the results of a democratic election by 1) subterfuge and manipulation of the rules violating long-standing practice and acceptance; and 2) Violence and the threat of violence (1/6);
2) The danger that those with power, money, and influence will exercise those things in increasingly corrupt and increasingly open ways, essentially validating the generalized perception that rules are for suckers and further weakening societal cohesion, law, and order.
3) Racism and societal corruption in general. They are "talked" about in the sense that sides scream at each other, but there is no actual, meaningful, and substantive conversation that will actually address existing issues in a substantive fashion. One side is exceptionally angry and screaming about it and the other side is busy denying it exists or that it has already been solved.
In general, I would characterize out current state in this country (and in Western Civilization as a whole) as a Crisis of Faith. Governance and order is the result of a shared reality and adherence to a shared set of principles and world view. Our society has willfully fractured itself in the pursuit of wealth and individual rights, and plain out selfishness and self-entitlement. We have lost faith in both religion and in governance (different groups for different reasons).
Many have little or no faith in established or institutionalized religion (for good cause) and its alternative, governance, is also held in contempt. What is left?