The Underbelly of America
This pandemic has exposed many weaknesses in our country. We are obviously vulnerable to this virus and will suffer great hardship for some time: not because we don’t have the capacity to deal with the challenge but because we didn’t call it in a timely manner and don’t have the fortitude to face it. The reason: we’ve never seen this before in our lifetime but we have this naive belief that we’re the best and we have the best resources, and “we can get through this and come out better”. BULLSHIT! This crisis has exposed the underbelly of this Nation and it’s weaknesses. It starts with our politics and policies: meaning our bloated governmental functions that cannot react to crises; a selfish money and power driven political system; a lack of a permanent forecasting function in all areas of national security (not just military); and a failure to really understand what has gotten this Nation to it’s level of superiority the past 100 years. But...