OK, I am repeating myself about the divisive elements in America, our wrong minded ideologies.
The image above demonstrates America's divide, educated versus experienced.
#1: Leaders set the tone for national discourse. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela set the tone for a peaceful transition from apartheid. In America, Tweety leads our country in ways to create violence, plain and simple.
#2: "Identity Politics," existing AS your ideological beliefs, being a "true Believer" zealot, is killing the American Dream. Period. Compromise across the divide seems like a betrayal, like being "PC" or is immoral.
#3: Money appears to drive everything in America, rather than wisdom, honesty, and caring for our fellow Americans.
#4: Aggressive, assertive, harsh behavior is "manly," and victims are "pajama boys."
Liberal, Conservative, Independent are words, but people use these words as badges and shields to fight each other. We destroy our own purpose which is to make America a great country. We are our own worst enemy.
There is a saying, "You can't listen if you are speaking," so most of us need to stop talking and arguing so we can listen. LISTENING is the key to communication, as is knowing the facts and truth.
I see Fox criticizing CNN while BOTH are wrong about their given topic, talking past one another, not trying to understand. I see Tweety surrogates and Dems talking past one another. I see tweets by anonymous Americans being nasty for the sake of their ideology. What will come of this?
And good communications starts at the top, with the President of the United States.
The phrase "What we've got here is failure to communicate" is a quotation from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, spoken in the movie first by Strother Martin (as the Captain, a prison warden) and later, abridged, by Paul Newman (as Luke, a stubborn prisoner).
https://www.google.com/#q=failing+to+communicate&spf=1497728450077
"What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate"
The Trump administration’s foreign policy pronouncements are all over the map. But it’s far more than a messaging problem.
By P.J. Crowley, April 28, 2017
Why and how would Canada and the Unites States get into a trade argument?
"The absence of an adequate Trump national security team, particularly a bench of mid-level staffers, slows the completion of necessary reviews and decisions on what the actual Trump policies are. Without a team, a process and a policy, it’s hardly surprising that the Trump administration has failed to generate a coherent and consistent message.
But the ultimate source of the problem is clearly the president, who lacks a strategic foundation and the discipline to stick to a coherent set of ideas, even if he had them. There are strategic thinkers around him, but he is driven by political impulse. His regular Twitter storms—and his careless pronouncements on the world, like his candid admission Friday that he won’t speak again with the president of Taiwan because it would anger his new friend Xi Jinping of China—are cases in point.
Fundamentally, Trump is not serious about the world. His presidency is a reality show where politics, not policy, is the priority."
"Dobbs: White House communications team 'flatfooted and failing' against 'forces of evil'" [Who is evil and who is good, and who decides which one is the "bogyman?"]
By Joe Concha - 05/17/17 08:27 AM EDT
""Our president is under constant barrage from all quarters by the vapid but still venomous Dems on Capitol Hill, the left-wing national media, the toxic GOP elites and much of the orthodoxy who hate also as much as the left and the deep state denizens," said Dobbs, a staunch Trump supporter. "That includes some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in this nation.""
"America’s rotting empire: Billionaires galore and a crumbling infrastructure"
More proof we're in rapid decline: Not a single U.S. city currently ranks among the world's most livable
CJ Werleman, AlterNet, May 8, 2014
"“The game is rigged,” writes Senator Elizabeth Warren in her new book A Fighting Chance. It’s rigged because the rich and their lobbyists have rigged the rules of the game to their favor. The rules are reflected in a tax code and bankruptcy laws that have seen the greatest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the rich in U.S. history.
The result?
America has the most billionaires in the world, but not a single U.S. city ranks among the world’s most livable cities. Not a single U.S. airport is among the top 100 airports in the world. Our bridges, road and rail are falling apart, and our middle class is being guttered out thanks to three decades of stagnant wages, while the top 1 percent enjoys 95 percent of all economic gains.
A rigged tax code and a bloated military budget are starving the federal and state governments of the revenue it needs to invest in infrastructure, which means today America looks increasingly like a second rate nation, and now new data shows America’s intellectual resources are also in decline."
Sadly, the "good old days" were wiser, if not better. DeVos leading Educatin Department in America is "dumbing down" our nation, and further proof that billionaires get to do whatever they want to this country..
"For the past three decades, the Republican Party has waged a dangerous assault on the very idea of public education. Tax cuts for the rich have been balanced with spending cuts to education. During the New Deal era of the 1940s to 1970s, public schools were the great leveler of America. They were our great achievement. It was universal education for all, but today it’s education for those fortunate enough to be born into wealthy families or live in wealthy school districts. The right’s strategy of defunding public education leaves parents with the option of sending their kids to a for-profit school or a theological school that teaches kids our ancestors kept dinosaurs as pets."
With Betty DeVos as our "leader" for American education I fear we have left our future to an incompetent billionaire.
