It is but how many people just sit back and don’t participate? Don’t care? Far, far too many. I can’t defend it but I also can’t defend the behavior of so many fellow citizens.
We passed the 1924 immigration act that ended the Ellis Island experiment and reduced immigration by over 90% precisely BECAUSE all of those groups were coming here and forming enclaves rather than assimilating.
Read the historian Jacques Barzun, especially:
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life.
He wrote that a characteristic sign of societies in decadence is having the desire without the requisite will. In other words, paralysis. Everyone knows reforms must be put through, but the requisite energy cannot be mustered.
I think that living in an increasingly non-homogenous and generally consumptive society has tended to cause cynicism and disillusionment among all who have grown up here in America.
Considering the excesses and the waste and the fraud, it wouldn’t be too surprising to learn that there are many individuals who only donate anything at all because of the internal revenue code.
@SydSteyerhart You people seem to have this strange idea that you give to charity to "solve" homelessness or poverty or hunger.
The point is to help the people suffering. To say that helping people in need is unimportant or insignificant is not only unChristian but fundamentally inhumane
@ConvenerNatureP Serves them right for painting them blue.
If they gad pained them white, there would have been no problem. Don’t blame the climate, for stupid designers and planners.
RE
Woman realizes she was slowly poisoning herself for weeks
After a lot of research it turned out to be the Costco dishwasher pods, many other people reported the same thing
Costco dishwasher pods contain the chemical Benzotriazole, its an industrial corrosion inhibitor that’s not FDA-approved for food contact
I found it’s common in both Cascade and Kirkland, Costco options
It is also an endocrine disruptor
These should not be legal to sell. There are other brands that achieve the same results without these harmful chemicals being used on what you eat off of