Objectively speaking, we are at a juncture in time where People need to think and act from the perspective of allegiance to economic opportunity rather than arbitrary geographies (called nations). This kind of thinking leads to non violent approach of forming groups of people on a given geography rather than a violent approach that is bred by nations and patriotism. It’s time to consider moving out of US may be. Smaller countries are better managed. They are poised to act fast and the higher degree of homogeneity (in thinking) helps with policies, laws etc. making the govt actually able to do things for its citizens rather than form factions along party lines and paralyze the system. The chaos monkey is just a symptom not the root problem. And so long as the root problem remains unaddressed there will be more monkeys and I would say worse than this one. He has set the bar for what presidents can do which mean other politicians with see it as it’s ok to use tactics like his over time this becomes the norm and only to be one broken by even worse monkeys in their efforts to “stray from the normal”. As a result the normal just keeps degrading. In the end we get the govt and politicians we deserve. The system that has morphed in the US for its citizens is quite worse. The masses are so busy they are merely citizens Trying to meet ends with their busy lives and can’t perform active citizenry which is critical for democracy. Between school,children and work there is very little personal time let alone be an active citizen. The youth is somewhat detached from the reality of the corrosive system of govt working from them because they mostly don’t feel the direct consequences of an inept govt system as their needs are....

HN cuts me. Full thoughts at https://pastebin.com/jD4wPRuS