If these issues were strictly cyclical, you could say such rants are overkill. But these deficiencies are becoming systemic and increasingly widespread at this point. Americans should be ticked off, as opposed to numbed to indifference, as they're being taken from all sides of the spectrum. The powers-that-be have transformed this nation into the world's biggest hooker, for no other reason than to profit by it in the short term.
It's our descendents who are going to pay for all this mindless largesse if we don't demand stricter and nonpartisan accountability, as well as a fundamental reassessment of our national priorities. Above all, this nation needs to get the Federal octopus - and its countless proxies - off its back.
Look up the rise and fall of the Roman Empire for an eerie and fitting analogy. As for California specifically, of which I'm a resident, the "golden state" provides a shining example, like few others could, of what government ought NOT to be, but has become due to excessive tolerance and outright incompetence. The saddest part is, where this state goes, others tend to follow.
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