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In reply to the discussion: When are we ever, as a people, going to start to _try_ to make this country less miserable [View all]KPN
(15,642 posts)While calling the nation as a whole "miserable" is hyperbolic, the sad truth is we are in a deep decline with no bottom at site, we have many more living below the poverty line than ever before, college is prohibitively costly and for all intents and purposes inaccessible for many, the same is still true re: health care, better paying jobs are being replaced with lesser paying jobs or not at all, many millions of people work two or more jobs with no benefits and no vacations. So we are actually talking probably 100 million or more people in comparatively miserable shape economically and lifestyle-wise. That is not hyperbolic, that is just plain fact.
The OP has a legitimate point. It's just that some of us care about the point and too many still do not or not enough to call for drastic change. Instead they prefer their comfort zone aka status quo.