Have we lost our minds here in the U.S.?
No.
What has happened is the toll 9-11, 2 wars, the Great Recession etc. has taken on our nation has made people crazy. I consider this a type of Social revolution sort of like the 1960s. No one knows where it is going yet. However, my hope is that the Constitution, the Presidency, the Supreme Court and Congress is still here and not disbanded completely 1 to 5 years from now. Because that would really be bad not only for us but for the whole world if our system of government is gone from all the strains.
Of course you cannot gut the middle Class and drive both the middle class and poor into bankruptcy like happened since 2001 without something changing. The rich will be fine but everyone else is in rebellion right now because it isn't working for them at all. Any system of government must help all the people or that system of government soon ceases to exist. Just study history and you can see this every time. There really are only two solutions. Trade protectionism or Social Democracy. The other alternative is the end of our system of government. This is only logical right now. Which is it going to be?
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Albright: World 'looking at us as if we’ve lost our minds'
Fresh
off a trip to the Middle East last month, former Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright said Wednesday that she had a hard time explaining
the state of American politics - and particularly the rise of Donald
Trump - to her hosts. Appearing on Fox Business, Albright, a longtime
supporter and friend of Hillary Clinton, praised the former secretary of
state and senator as "somebody who knows how to reach not only across
the aisle but across the ocean - and I think that's what we need and not
a bunch of yelling, frankly." "One of the hard parts about being a
diplomat, when you go abroad, you don't want to criticize your country,
and so trying to explain what's going on to foreigners is hard,
POLITICO
Madeleine Albright: GOP 'sounds like children in a school yard'
CNN
Albright: World 'looking at us as if we’ve lost our minds'
Appearing on Fox Business, Albright, a longtime supporter and friend of Hillary Clinton, praised the former secretary of state and senator as "somebody who knows how to reach not only across the aisle but across the ocean — and I think that's what we need and not a bunch of yelling, frankly."
"One of the hard parts about being a diplomat, when you go abroad, you don't want to criticize your country, and so trying to explain what's going on to foreigners is hard, but they are looking at us as if we've lost our minds," Albright said.
Recounting her recent visits to Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Albright commented that people were asking her, "What is going on in America?"
"And they were very nervous because I think that the messages coming out from Donald Trump are quite scary in terms of keeping people out of America and building walls and threatening and saying, we'll make them do whatever," she continued. "That is not the language of a commander in chief.”
Albright said that even she did not quite grasp the popularity of Trump, who won seven states on Super Tuesday, but acknowledged concern "about gridlock."
"And President [Barack] Obama has tried very hard to work with Congress that automatically kind of said they wouldn't do anything. And so, people look at what we're doing and wonder, I mean the American people, why nothing is happening, and I'm very upset about that myself," she said. "I believe in the importance of government and executive, legislative working together and the Supreme Court being involved. We are the world's greatest democracy and we are not behaving in a way that actually — compromise is not a bad word, you know.”
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