General Discussion

Honestly I feel pretty damned ashamed of where I am personally. Rack it up to my depression or social anxiety but I've never held down a job for a year or more or finished more than a semester or two of university in 10+ years. I've instead lived off my parents who have enabled me, often as a shut in. I've made some small strides here and there but I keep having emotional breakdowns. I wrote this more out of feeling connected emotionally with those who are struggling than feeling I really belong with them. So many of my own problems are of my own design and I don't feel I have many good excuses.

As for what has happened to America indeed the world I'd say what has happened is that the economy has come unmoored from the government. Like you said this is no mistake, Reagan and his ilk saw to that. In our capitalist world it's the economy that makes the world go round, but hopefully in a liberal society it does so with some modicum of oversight from the government. That really is no longer the case. It doesn't really mater as much anymore who you vote into office as that's no longer where the real power lies. Which is not to say there is no hope or that a republican government is the same as a democratic one. I'd much rather see a democrat government. But what I'd most like to see is a democrat government with the balls to seriously reign in Wall Street.