Some of the canaries that are chirping the loudest are America’s many social pathologies. From J. Peter Zane at realclearpolitics.com:
Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump is not the race America needs, but it is the one we deserve.
A political system that has spit out a race few voters want is the perfect symbol of a nation – and a people – bent to the point of breaking.
Biden vs. Trump appears to be a welcome diversion in a country whose government seems unequipped to face its biggest challenges and whose people are increasingly unwilling to take responsibility for their own problems. Eight months arguing about two angry old men – hearing our own side praise us to the hilt while blaming every woe on the other – is time we don’t have to spend confronting our own difficulties. Historic declines in life expectancy, jaw-dropping rates of obesity, and rising truancy among students are just a few of the ways we the people are running off the rails. A few others include:
- In a Wall Street Journal commentary about post-COVID America, Yale University’s Nicholas Christakis observes how “reckless behavior” is becoming epidemic. “Americans gambled a record $66.5 billion in 2023. Compared with 2019, there has been an 18% increase in fatal accidents involving alcohol and a 17% increase in those involving speeding. Over 500 Americans are dying every day from alcohol-related deaths, a 30% increase. Sexually transmitted diseases are rising across the nation, too.”
Distracting theater as the last act of looting continues.
Black Swans stacked up in piles with nothing done to fix anything in the orb.
This was the plan all along.