The United States and the Politics of Failure
Peter Schultz
For the life of me I cannot figure out why Americans seem to think so highly of their political elites and their political system. Here’s a partial list of the failures that have occurred in my lifetime.
Eisenhower’s Crusade for Peace
JFK’s New Frontier
JFK’s Assassination
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
LBJ’s Great Society
LBJ’s Vietnam War
RFK’s Assassination
MLK’s Assassination
Fred Hampton’s Assassination
Kent State and Jackson State
Watergate
Chile
Carter’s Desert Fiasco
Iranian Revolution
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Reagan’s Near Assassination
Iran-Contra
Nicaragua
War on Drugs
Challenger Disaster
Mass Incarceration
Waco
Ruby Ridge
Oklahoma City
Bin Laden
The 2000 Presidential Election
9/11
Occupation of Iraq
Afghanistan
2008 Economic Meltdown
Universal Health Care
Afghanistan: Again
COVID
2016 Presidential Election
1/6 Insurrection
Immigration Policies
A fairly long and consistent record of failures. It would be useful to ask, Why? Obviously, the failures are not aberrational but are endemic of our political elites and to a political system that is damaged and is damaging. Exceptionally so? Probably not.
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