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Why does the richest nation in the world treat people so poorly?
Why would a country extinguish its own prosperous middle class?
Why is our national education system failing?
Why are fundamental human rights denied to gay and lesbian soldiers and couples?
Why are our individual rights to privacy and protection being eroded?
Why are we destroying our environment for profit?
Why do our minorities suffer ongoing economic, educational and institutionalized discrimination?
Why is health care for profit not a crime?
Why is credit card loan sharking not a crime?
Why is there no intelligent long range awareness of climate change and the world population explosion?
Why is Congress owned by Wall Street?
Why is there Fox News?
Why do we torture and kill in the name of freedom?
Why have we let the wealthy become so powerful?
Why is our power structure so resistant to change?
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Each of these questions is disturbing when considered alone, but taken together they paint an alarming picture of a civilization moving towards self destruction.
"Something's happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear"
My question to you....
What "why" questions would you ask?...
and do you have any answers?
What is the dynamic that is shredding the fabric of our nation?
The sooner we understand it, the clearer will become the corrective action we collectively need to take.
Ironic that with all the talk of health care for individual citizens, our nation itself is symptomatic.
We need an accurate diagnosis that shows how all these dysfunctions are all interconnected symptoms of an underlying dynamic.
Here's the meta question for the United States of America in November of 2009.
What the hell is going on?.......
and how do we fix it?