What is fundamentally wrong with America isn’t that we face problems. It’s that we have a deficiency in our problem solving mechanisms.

The tendency of social media to reduce everything to a left versus right culture war is one of the primary reasons for that deficit.

@briannawu this is true but I think part of that deficiency is the "what's in it for me?" mechanism that is inherent here. Why take action to solve a problem if it isn't a problem I have?

@Verso @briannawu

“And if the people (public figures) I trust are constantly telling me that fixing this problem for someone else, who is probably lazy and undeserving, will actually make my life worse/harder/more expensive, and on top of that won’t even work, how am I supposed to ever get on board?”