"ordinary days in between extraordinary bullshit, most of it happening to someone else"

When will America finally collapse under the weight of its leadership vacuum and systemic inequalities based on race and class?  Sri Lankan writer Indi Samarajiva says it already has:

"If you’re waiting for a moment where you’re like 'this is it,' I’m telling you, it never comes. Nobody comes on TV and says 'things are officially bad.' There’s no launch party for decay. It’s just a pileup of outrages and atrocities in between friendships and weddings and perhaps an unusual amount of alcohol.

Perhaps you’re waiting for some moment when the adrenaline kicks in and you’re fighting the virus or fascism all the time, but it’s not like that. Life is not a movie, and if it were, you’re certainly not the star. You’re just an extra. If something good or bad happens to you it’ll be random and no one will care. If you’re unlucky you’re a statistic. If you’re lucky, no one notices you at all.

Collapse is just a series of ordinary days in between extraordinary bullshit, most of it happening to someone else. That’s all it is."

Over 200,000 Americans are dead because of Trump's anti-science incompetence regarding coronavirus.

Hong Kong is doomed and neither Trump nor Johnson is lifting a finger to stop it.

A world-wide depression is about to kick in.

I mean, is there even enough oxygen left within American political discourse to remember that a quack government "doctor" has been forcing hysterectomies on migrant women?