As a country, we can be incredibly charitable and do amazing things and lead the world in technological advancement. But also as a country, we are shit at tackling real problems.
Got a problem with gun violence? Let's lessen restrictions on guns, make more available and seek out good toddlers with guns to take out the bad toddlers with guns and create laws that will lead to more unnecessary death.
Got a problem with a pandemic? Let's not listen to the experts (flawed as they may be) but instead listen to Bubba from Facebook who only had covid hospitalize him twice about how to stay safe.
Got a problem with sexual predators? Let's focus on outliers in society who teach children to be comfortable with who they are and encourage them to express themselves, and oppress the shit out of them while ignoring real predators.
Got a problem with bullying in school? Let's talk about it, but restrict the schools from handling it.
Got a problem with growing wealth inequality? Let's give tax breaks to the elite, it hasn't worked in 40 years and only created more disparity, but maybe the problem was we didn't give them enough of a cut.
Got a problem with an environmental issue that is no longer deniable? Let's allow manufacturers to continue to produce cars with low mileage requirements and only ~10% mpg increase over the past ~25 years, and ignore other industries.
Got a problem with kids getting run over by stupidly sized vehicles? Let's keep surround camera features an expensive option (and on some models a top option) while we celebrate the backup cameras' reductions in kid deaths and ignore the forward-moving deaths.