Streaky Bay is at the forefront of a national crisis: inadequate government funding is exacerbating a shortage of critical healthcare workers like Dr Bradley; wait times are ballooning; doctors are beginning to write their own rules on fees, and costs to patients are skyrocketing.
A once-revered universal healthcare system is crumbling at every level, sometimes barely getting by on the sheer willpower of doctors and local communities.
As a result, more and more Australians, regardless of where they live, are delaying or going without the care they need.
Yeah, the electoral college was founded on the basis that people didn’t have an equal voice, and it has only gotten worse from there. Gerrymandering is so fucked, but of course, it’s legal in 'Murica because some powerful people want it to be
It’s a broken country.
Most of the country isn’t too bad.
Then we have the bit that was 100% founded, centered, obsessed with, fought for, and built their entire identity around slavery and racial genocide.
If you don’t count that bit it’s actually quite a decent country.
I suppose Germany in the 30s was nice if you didn’t count all the nazis running around. Ironically they got their inspiration (and admitted it) from Jim Crow.
America is tribal
I’ve spent a bit of time there, in several different places
There’s a strong sense of community in most places, but if you aren’t a part of that community, then it’s going to be tough
Even in the civilised parts, greed, selfishness and consumption for its own sake are almost fetishised
The “hustle” is worshipped, whereas everywhere else, it’s seen as madness to celebrate doing more to make some rich cunt even richer, because that’s all that is happening over there
I have experienced what you say.
But I also haven’t found it to be the rule.
Rural areas are very “in vs out-group”, but in the mdiwest you can join the in-group if you try.
In the south, it’s your church and your skin color, that’s it.
You’re 100% spot on about the hustle though.