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There are many millions of people here in the U.S. that are just as sad and worried and embarrased as the rest of the world that the leadership of our country has been handed over to a group of militaristic christian plutocrats.
There is a lot of culture conflict and culture shock going on in the U.S., and our educational system is collapsing, so there is a huge surplus of stupid people here.
Stupid people frighten easily, and religious people are notoriously violent, and we have a lot of both stupid people and religious people here. And our schools and our respect for learning and thoughtfullness and intelligence has never been in worse shape.
We hope that things will get better here. But, it won't be easy. Our culture shock is causing more and more people to turn to religion and violence for comfort. There's no way to stop something like that quickly.
Space exploration is an antidote to religious bigotry and primitive thinking. It may get us to co-operate, rather than to fear and plan violence. If we give our southern states something scientific to do, it may slow the rush to religious conservatism.
Thoughtful, modern people are not in charge now in the U.S.. We're sorry about that, and we're trying to change it. But there is no simple solution. We dug ourselves into this pile of shit, and it will take years, maybe decades, to get the shit cleaned up.
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