r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM

So, I work with regular working class people and live in a regular working class neighborhood.  I find it pretty scary and sad that so many are still treating what's happening in America through the lens of whatever political ideology got us to insanity.  Regular folks are getting squeezed and can't take any more.  Both parties are responsible.  White liberals can't keep regulating and writing nonsense policies without understanding the actual issues from the perspective of the people who are affected.  MAGA Republicans have lost the plot completely and need to acknowledge they follow an objectively unAmerican ideology.  Well-meaning black academics need to stop turning everything into race (Thomas Jefferson owned slaves AND happened to be one of the most important and decent humans in history--the truth is always more interesting than the viewpoint through a narrow lens). Regular folks believe in liberty, human rights and dignity, economic opportunity, freedom, and sensible economic and immigration policies.  Most of us are not highly ideological because both sides are closed loops and we need problem solvers. We don't really care about Super Bowl halftime shows or pronouns or whatever nonsense you're squabbling about this week while our insurance premiums go up 15% every year and our healthcare gets worse.

We're now at a point where "non-profit" hospital systems with monopolies are openly treating entire communities like sociopaths.  Some have their boot on the necks of their staff and sometimes entire states, and the vibes in those parts of the country suck. Our healthcare system is probably a big part of why everything and everyone are just feeling worse about society since the pandemic.. We're letting our hospitals fail because they know there's no accountability. Same with our health insurance system and national insurance regulations. Why do you think emergency rooms still have 8 hour wait times and patients sit in gurneys in hallways for days? Why are we accepting this? Do you really think our hospitals can take another pandemic? Why is this not the #1 topic we're all discussing (yes, some hospital systems are worse, but we're all getting really, really, really terrible healthcare that's ripping us all off and making the nation sicker and sicker? This is completely obvious to anyone willing to open their eyes. You're arguing socialism vs capitalism. We don't have the luxury of choice. We just need this fixed in a in a practical way. Same with the opioid crisis now in it's 3rd decade. Shame on everyone.

We have a federal government openly trying to build concentration camps.  We have a tax system that's a joke.  We have a social safety net that may as well been drafted in crayon by toddlers.  Everything is too bureaucratic.  Everything sucks.  

Look around you next time you interact with regular folks and compare the vibe to 20 years ago.  You've been fighting and blaming each other for 30 years, and while the monsters fight, the ants get squished.  Look at what's happening to our farms and food supply.  Wake up.  Take a moment to think about what's best for society and humanity, not whatever weird political ideology you have that contributed to getting us to this point.  Just consider the possibility that you might be wrong or not have the right background or perspective to understand an issue.  Consider the possibility that your bank balance doesn't make you wise cuz right now, I see a whole generation of rich corporate types who lack even a morsel of bravery, integrity, and patriotism. 

Where I see the real America is the conservative working class folks in rural red states working together to stop counties from purchasing ICE warehouses and the folks in MN from all stripes who got together and helped save America using whistles and cell phones.  Meanwhile, you're here arguing with each other instead of acting like an American.  You should be ashamed of yourselves.  I have $358 in my bank account and drive a 20-year-old economy car. I work hard and have two degrees but I chose to serve my community instead of enrich myself and move to Dallas to raise my family in a bubble and run from the consequences.  You have no idea what this country has turned into for normal people. 

Stop fighting each other over nonsense.  We're a democratic society that believes in freedom and liberty and economic opportunity.  While you're squabbling, you're destroying the country.  But from your thrones and your bubbles, you've somehow convinced yourselves that it's more important to prove the other side is wrong than to work together and do something.