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In reply to the discussion: Why are you so *angry*, Manny? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)We can move toward change. But when people try to persuade folks who get jobs that turn out over and over to be merely temporary, when young people can't buy homes or plan to have a family because between student loans to repay and job insecurity, they are too frightened to risk a pregnancy, we are in serious trouble as a country.
The powers that be at the moment can whitewash the mess all they want. But they just make it more likely that an extremist with easy, but very dangerous solutions will come into power.
All is not well, not well at all, and our government is not dealing with the dismal reality that so many of our brightest and best are facing. And if they are facing such a dismal future, what about those who didn't get the Ivy League education and aren't necessarily brilliant, like most of us. What happens?
A cheery, unrealistic optimism does not solve the problems that do exist. Just talk to teachers who have lost their jobs. Talk to people who learned skills they used working in factories twenty years ago. They will wake you up to the reality.
It ain't pretty out there. Why pretend?