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[quote=Anonymous]In my opinion, our country is dangerously incapacitated by strident ideologies and therefore unable to deal with urgent issues.  The reason this situation has arisen is multi-factorial.  Off the top of my head, I would blame

A.  Poor education system that is underfunded and controlled by vested interests and/or sold out to commercial interests.

B.  Media hyping of celebrity over accomplishment,

C.  "Fair and Balanced" news media that feel it is necessary to give equal time to opposing opinions, even if the opposing opinion is both marginal and factually incorrect.

D.  News media funding cutbacks/24-7 news cycle that relies on opinion or biased-fact providers rather than journalism and that permit factual inaccuracies to go unchallenged and uncorrected (see C., above).

E.  Religions that reject science in favor of a belief in magic.

F.  Racism, prejudice

G.  Corporate greed and the devaluation of altruism and modesty (see B., above).

H.  Loss of a sense of community, especially as children grow up and  move away to other places and lose their sense of a home community

Any other ideas?

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