Found this really intriguing column about America's Cultural crisis while looking for something else. This triggered a long list of of thoughts about democratic and cultural principles in respect to my own place. I'm not from USA but I'm living in the largest democracy and this view of a cultural crisis is yet to happen here.
In the wake of Tuesday’s election, members of the Democratic Party have spent a great deal of energy trying to explain why Kamala Harris lost and Donald Trump won. And while most perspectives have covered the gamut from “America is racist and sexist” to “President Biden should have dropped out sooner,” some less beholden to the party line are urging Democratic leaders to take a step back and be a bit more introspective.
Brett Stephens, for example, perceptively assigns blame to “three larger mistakes of worldview”:
First, the conviction among many liberals that things were pretty much fine, if not downright great, in Biden’s America — and that anyone who didn’t think that way was either a right-wing misinformer or a dupe. Second, the refusal to see how profoundly distasteful so much of modern liberalism has become to so much of America. Third, the insistence that the only appropriate form of politics when it comes to Trump is the politics of Resistance. — capital R.
There is truth to all three, but the first point in particular seems crucial to any objective understanding of Tuesday’s results.
You see, America has always been a divided nation to some extent. While we can, at times, unite around a common goal, even then, the diversity that exists within our society will inevitably lead to some fairly clear lines between the various groups that make up the nation.
And that’s all right. After all, diversity cannot exist without differences, and God made each of us unique. However, he also intended for us to share a common foundation as people made in his image (Genesis 1:27).
It should not come as a surprise that, as our culture increasingly rejects that foundation, we’re struggling to keep our differences from becoming divisive.
As a result, we’re facing what David Brooks calls “a crisis of respect.” And while he sees those issues as playing out primarily on the left, I think it’s fair to say that all of us struggle at times to show respect to those who think differently than we do on the issues we find most important.
What do you think? Is America really facing "a crisis of respect" or this take just exaggerates everything?
How can Bitcoin help to avoid such a massive cultural divide in present or in future?
So far I haven't come across any piece of writing that deals with the evolution of politics in the Bitcoin Standard. I'd love to read if there is any. I'd also love to know how will Bitcoin help shape the future course of politics? Shall we ever come out of the clutches of biased and divide and rule politics. Shall we ever see some genuine form of government that offers unity rather than a divisibility? I believe Bitcoin can do it but I absolutely don't have any idea how.
I think, I only think, the time has come when we have to create a new God (ultimately Bitcoin) and let the world run on its principles. I only think this because the new God shall make a better world without futile narratives of old system. And this will "Make not only America but also the Earth Great Again". We need MEGA more than we need MAGA.