Say what?

Not this time...

 There was an excellent piece in the Daily Beast this week detailing how far America has fallen in happiness measurements, economic measurements, and health measurements when compared with the rest of the countries in our world.  Unfortunately, the piece blames baby boomers for these precipitous drops, presumably because so much of this has happened under our watch.

I'm not here to defend boomers--I'm one of them and I'd be the first to say we've had our ups and downs through the years in what we've accomplished.  However, this slippage is not one of them.  I will guarantee you that the blame for this begins and ends with the republican party, who, ever since the Reagan Devolution, have done everything they can to make sure our government does not work for the people.

If you look at any number of the polls cited in the piece, the countries showing better results than  America have governments that work hard to even the playing field for everyone, invest in their people and their infrastructure, and provide substantial social safety nets.  For the last forty years, the republican party has done everything it can to insure that benefits favor the wealthy and have decimated social service programs (the poverty rate in America has doubled since the Reagan years, which is a direct reflection of his administrations demonstrably false claim that government is the problem rather than the solution).

This, unfortunately, was made abundantly clear by Donald Trump's disastrous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, aided and abetted by the gutless republicans who chose the free market over the health and welfare of the American people, which has left 566,000 Americans dead and countless more in dire economic straits.

If there is a silver lining, though, it's that the American people are waking up to the fact that if they're to have any hope for the future the government is going to have to invest in America.  The overwhelming support for Joe Biden's COVID-19 Relief Package and the early approval numbers for his infrastructure plan are proof positive that Americans are warming to policies that help them and not the wealthy and corporations.

And will most certainly improve our standing in the world.

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Peace,

emaycee