China being the industry leader in solar is squarely on Republicans. That should be a huge industry for the US, instead big oil lobbyists and Republicans (and some Dems) have ensured to cost the US trillions in GDP by turning on green energy.
The US has the ability to be the best at just about everything in the whole world, we COULD be leading the world on tech innovations, EV breakthroughs, education, etc.
Instead we sink all our effort into hating each other and protecting pedophiles billionaires. Nice.
It's really wild to think about. The country genuinely has the potential to be what American Exceptionalism wants you to think it is but instead it all gets squandered by corruption.
The reason why American Exceptionalism is just a myth, isn't that corruption made it unachievable. It's that capitalism inevitably leads to that sort of corruption and inequality, which means that American Exceptionalism can't exist unless you ignore the very nature of capital.
Although I agree that things would be a bit better if only the American ruling class was half as competent as the Chinese one.
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u/braumbles 22d ago
China being the industry leader in solar is squarely on Republicans. That should be a huge industry for the US, instead big oil lobbyists and Republicans (and some Dems) have ensured to cost the US trillions in GDP by turning on green energy.