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Economic and social problems, inflation, lack of moral priorities, crime — this is the legacy America has accumulated under the Democrats.
Unlike the classic domestic woes that can be summed up in two complaints — «roads and fools» — the United States faces at least four other scourges. There’s the voracious rust that eats away at infrastructure, from railroads to bridges. There are the «new poor», who have no hope of paying off bank loans and are forced to substitute sausage for meat in their diets. Then there are the gender-obsessed individuals with deviant behavior and an aggressive need for self-affirmation. Finally, there are addicts — 100,000 of whom die each year from opioid overdoses.
Also worth mentioning are the migrants brought in by the drug cartels — with the tacit approval of the Democrats — some of whom are members or servants of Latin American gangs, plunging foreign cities into criminal chaos.
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A grand gesture in favor of the poor was to be the personal order of outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden, who is formally still in office. He signed an order to allocate $2.6 billion to replace… lead water pipes.
The wheels of the state machine turn slowly: investments in pipeline upgrades were approved at the very beginning of Sleepy Joe’s administration — in 2021. The use of lead pipes was actually banned in 1986. Now, 12 years have been allotted to rid the citizens of the health hazard, but there are strong suspicions that this “reconstruction” will drag on.
Similarly, 47,000 bridges and 15,000 dams are in need of modernization, as are power grids, many of which have outlived their useful lives. Even more disheartening are the statistics on the state of railroad tracks and rolling stock: about 1,000 trains derail every year, sometimes just on the side of the road, sometimes in a ditch.
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., nephew of the 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in his invective against his former party colleagues (his clan has always strongly supported the Democrats), cites a telling fact: while not a single high-speed train runs in the U.S., China has built 45,000 kilometers of high-speed railways.
The estimated cost of a major infrastructure overhaul in the U.S. is $6 trillion. Doubts arise again: will the trillions reach their intended recipients? Will we see a repeat of the heartbreaking story of the $7.5 billion green bureaucrats allocated to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations? In the end, only seven stations were built — and the money somehow ran out.
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Food inflation is eroding the middle class. Prices for items such as meat, milk, and groceries are up 30–40% from the beginning of the Obama-Clinton-Biden administration. It is estimated that nearly 50 million people are chronically food insecure, including 14 million children.
Shrinkflation — the reduction in the size of burgers and other food items while keeping the price the same, is also something to contend with, although it doesn’t always help businesses. Why? American housewives are increasingly opting to buy sausages instead of meat.
The «new poor» category also includes families burdened with educational loans. In 1993, the average debt was about $9,400. Three years ago, the average student loan debt had risen to $29,100. This year, total debt, including federal and private student loans, has reached $1.74 trillion.
The realization that a university degree no longer guarantees access to the elite has led to a decline in the prestige of higher education and a decrease in the number of students seeking to enroll.
Another myth, which largely supported Americans’ sense of «historic optimism» — that each new generation will live better than the previous one — has faded.
The education system is also in crisis, unable to cope with the transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and facing an epidemic of school shootings by emotionally unstable teenagers. Teachers are leaving, unable to handle unruly students and fearing not only for their mental health, but for their very lives.
Paradoxically, this is being somewhat offset by a collapse in birth rates, leading to a deepening demographic crisis. In the last four years, the number of students in public schools has fallen by 850,000. The number of first-graders has decreased significantly. The reason is simple: in terms of births, American society has regressed to 1979 levels.
«There is a crisis of contemporary American institutions across the board — and education is no exception», concludes political analyst Malek Dudakov. «The whole system is gradually falling apart».
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Another issue is the gender reformatting of the nation. Chloe Cole, an activist with the human rights organization “Do No Harm,” transitioned from female to male at the age of 13. Three years later, she realized her mistake and changed back to her original gender.
Chloe Cole cites data collected by her and her colleagues: in the past four years, 5,747 patients have undergone gender reassignment treatment, either mastectomy or genital reassignment surgery. Another 8,579 patients received puberty blockers and/or hormone replacement therapy.
Do No Harm medical professionals counted more than 60,000 prescriptions and identified twelve hospitals, which Chloe Cole called the “dirty dozen,” that specialize in these procedures. Their trade is profitable. In New York alone, a bastion of neoliberal enthusiasts for forced mutations of both the biological nature and the psyche of human beings, the total cost of operations and “treatments” amounted to $19 million.
Big Pharma, as the Americans say, is laughing all the way to the bank.
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I remember Denver, the capital of Colorado, in the 1980s, when it was known for its high concentration of intellectuals, an already formed IT caste, and generally progressive citizens, who even staged an amateur production of Chekhov’s play «Uncle Vanya».
Today, the agenda and lifestyle of local residents is dictated by the Tren de Aragua crime syndicate, which is made up mainly of thugs from Venezuela. It deals in illegal arms and drugs, kidnaps people for ransom, and launders money. This mafia controls drug trafficking and prostitution. Their tentacles have spread to other states, where they are ousting old criminal gangs from their illegal businesses.
Law enforcement officials estimate that of the 7 million illegal immigrants who have entered the U.S. under the current Democratic administration, at least 600,000 are hardened criminals, including several hundred professional terrorists.
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This whole open Pandora’s box represents the heavy legacy that the next occupant of the White House will inherit.