re: It’s really sad to see what our country is….

Our citizens don't have because billions are going to illegal aliens, so-called liberal green companies that eventually go broke, leftist politicians, and leftist organizations.

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Then why are you bitching? Life ain’t supposed to be easy

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Correct! Our founding fathers expected better from us. We should respect their sacrifice and vision. Stand up for the American values that made this nation great. It's sad that some can't even remember what that is.

Correct and they are too stupid to realize it

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It’s like on the Rant when people say, “hey, we’re winning 10 games a year!” and the response is “With all this talent and resources, we should be winning championships!”

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It is like that, yes, I agree.

Every delusional college football fan is angry that out of 130 teams competing, they don't win the national championship every year.

That's a very good analogy.

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The US has so much waste and corruption...

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Again, name a single successful society in the history of the world about which that was not true.

That's the problem with this thinking. It's not grounded in reality or any reasonable expectations.

I saw an interview with Dinesh D'souza once and he was recounting a conversation he had with Jessie Jackson in which Jackson was badmouthing the United States up and down, left and right.

D'souza said, "Hey man, listen to yourself. I don't come from the US. I have a different perspective than you, but like you, I am a racial minority in the United States...I'm not white either. And I can tell you that compared to anywhere else you can go in the entire world, the United States provides the most opportunity and is the most fair—even for racial minorities—and it's not close. The problem with the way you're thinking is that you're not comparing the United States with anything that actually exists...you're comparing it with a fantastic ideal that doesn't exist, never has existed, and likely never will exist."

The underlined portion above is what populists do.

I recommend eschewing populism. It demands an unreasonable degree of constant discontent, and this unrealistic expectation narrative is one of the ways it supplies that discontent. The other way being the constant dissemination of conspiracy theories and doomsday predictions.

Jackson is a populist. He's just a leftist populist. The interesting thing is that rightist populists can recognize when someone on the left is spouting some crazy conspiracy theory or doomsday prediction or is mired in unrealistic expectations like insisting that everyone's "pronouns be respected" or that a company's employment roster exactly reflect the percentage of black and Hispanic people in the population. But they remain completely blind to their own version of the same mindset.

One more time, I'm not saying that corruption and fraud shouldn't be ferreted out where ever it can be.

But populists on both sides of the aisle run around these days basically saying that we just need to burn the whole thing down and start over (like starting over would do any good...again, what society has ever existed without the elements of corruption that populists object to?)

It's not helpful. It's actually quite disruptive.