Fine Mess

What a fine mess we're in, the US. Snapshot this moment, Feb 2024, what do we see, what do we have? 

America's economy isn't healthy. Inflation has slowed but continues. Unemployment is low, but personal debt is very high, housing is unaffordable everywhere, rents soaring rapidly, and pay raises eaten up instantly by steadily rising costs for commodities from food to fuel. Most Americans still work from paycheck to paycheck, just one unexpected setback away from personal or family crisis. 

Americans have largely lost much confidence in the corrupt legal and political systems of government, and the feckless leadership both partisan blinded parties exhibit. For the first time in the country's history, this presidential cycle features two very flawed candidates that few voters desire or even like- what a mess!

Meanwhile, one candidate and his party are doing everything even remotely possible to prosecute the other candidate off the ballot, and preferably to convict and imprison the other party's candidate. Yes, this is actually happening right here in the US, right now in real time, with most of major media helping out their political allies. 

Where do American voters find any sense or confidence now in this sad national drama that seems so extreme and different from before? Where is the way out of this mess?

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