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10. When you have a for-profit healthcare system, then profits come first, not medical care.

It amazes me how much substandard crap we put up with in this country, and a substantial number of our citizens don’t even know it’s substandard. They think we have the best of everything. We spend more money on healthcare by far than any other nation but get worse results. Our lifespan has been declining for a number of reasons, including poor or lacking healthcare and gun violence. We are charged outrageous drug prices because Republicans protect government from negotiating prices to be in line with other countries.

Every country has infrastructure issues, but we just ignore ours until something falls down unless it’s to build more roads to add to accommodate more cars and fossil fuel profits. Our passenger rail system is laughable when compared with countries like Japan, China, France, and other European countries. Our food is laced with chemicals, or as the French call it Frankenfood. As test scores show, our public education is declining instead of improving. College degrees are some of the most expensive in the world.

We have more gun violence and deaths than any other Western nation. Our police departments in many states are full of white supremacists. And we have one of the most corrupt political parties of any Western nation, though corruption is not in short supply in many countries.

We have the most expensive military in the world, but at least it seems capable. We also have some of the most innovative technology and some of the best graduate schools in the world. Medical research and science are top notch. We also have some of the most beautiful scenery in the world and have managed to preserve a lot of it with national parks and federal lands.

If we had the political will, we have the resources to fix every one of the issues I described in the first three paragraphs. Imagine what a fabulous country we would have with modernization, accessible healthcare for everyone, and a Republican Party that wants to govern for the country instead of for the loonies and the billionaires.