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Now, as for COVID response...In California, one of the most liberal states in the union, 60% of people have told COVID tracers to piss up a rope.
Americans, even for their own good, do not like to be told what to do.
Exactly. Sometimes, the good of society has to come before the good of the individual.
Personally, I have a lot of trouble understanding why people cannot understand that.
I don't. But then, I'm one of those pesky Americans...
And that is what makes the US so great, but can also be why sometimes that it fails.
Absolutely. Now, there is a problem with the concept of duty in today's American society, but that, too, is a personal thing...
I asked my grandfather, who was in his early 30's when WWII broke out, about the the nation unified as never before in the war effort. Like a lot of men in the depression he had bounced around taking work here and there as he was able. Once the war ramped up he had found work in an Aluminum plant in Southern California.
He snorted derisively and said something derogatory about America that I didn't understand, other than knowing he felt there was plenty of selfishness still going on that he witnessed.