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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Jan 21, 2026, 02:21 PM Jan 21

America Isn't Evil. It's Structurally Sick. [View all]

Across Europe, a question is being asked with growing frequency and unease: What is wrong with the United States? In quieter moments, the question sharpens into something harsher—are Americans a bad people? The question is understandable. From the outside, the country appears volatile, cruel, and increasingly indifferent to democratic norms. Its politics feel performative, its media combative, its institutions erratic.

Yet this framing mistakes moral character for structural condition.

The United States is not an evil society. It is a structurally sick one, and its population is living with the predictable consequences of that sickness.

To explain how Americans arrived here is not to excuse every choice made along the way. It is to reject the lazy moralism that substitutes collective blame for an honest accounting of power, incentives, and constrained agency. This is not an argument for despair, nor a blueprint for reform, but a necessary diagnosis—because no society can repair what it refuses to accurately name.

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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/america-isnt-evil-its-structurally

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