At some point, Donald Trump will be gone. The rest of us will be gone, too. The country will remain. What kind of country will be it be then? How do we want our grandchildren to live? These are the only questions that matter.
The answer used to be obvious. The overriding goal for America is more prosperity, meaning cheaper consumer goods. But is that still true? Does anyone still believe that cheaper iPhones, or more Amazon deliveries of plastic garbage from China are going to make us happy? They haven’t so far. A lot of Americans are drowning in stuff. And yet drug addiction and suicide are depopulating large parts of the country. Anyone who thinks the health of a nation can be summed up in GDP is an idiot.
The goal for America is both simpler and more elusive than mere prosperity. It’s happiness. There are a lot of ingredients in being happy: Dignity. Purpose. Self-control. Independence. Above all, deep relationships with other people. Those are the things that you want for your children. They’re what our leaders should want for us, and would want if they cared.
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[–] Walk1 ago
I think people do not care about future generations, but only the present moment for the most case, and that means we will become a culture built less on capital output and generation and more on consumerism and higher taxes.
It will inevitably lead to a state of affairs where we are bound to decay and corrode and become Roman and Latinized. Its the worst possible outcome and it must be stopped at all cost because if it is allowed to occur and unfold then we are in major trouble and will end up caving into economic and geopolitical influence of foreign countries, such as China.
I can only say one thing and that is we are seriously fucked and there is nothing salvaging or saving us.