America has always been a socially driven country, but lately it seems that the political focus has zoomed in on subjects like gender equality and gay marriage.
However, we have to acknowledge that America already is the land of the free (or the country closest to the ideal). That’s why so many of our ancestors moved here, for that chance to start fresh and live a life of equality. However, our nation has amplified our social issues to such a scale that subjects such as gay marriage are all the talk amongst the youth while no one is talking about things that affect our humanity on a much broader scale.
You won’t usually hear the average group of teenagers talking about how our world is running out of sustainable energy, how we have no alternate resources, and how our planet is coming to breaking points because it cannot support 7 billion people.
And when you really think about it, the lives of 7 billion people and how they are not just going to be fed and sheltered, but also educated, should be taken just as seriously as social issues such as gay rights or racism. If there are no solutions to sustaining humanity, then there won’t be any society to have issues like discrimination to solve. Social issues will always be a part of society—this is the way our lives work—and the only way to rid those issues is to start from square one and rebuild our culture. Obviously, this is not possible.
But social issues should not be the only one at the top of our Federal Government’s to-do list. Leave the social issues to the state governments and let the Federal Government focus on the problems that affect all of us. The American liberals have pushed social issues to the point that our government has taken up solving them. The government’s job should be to work with scientists that will find more efficient and long-lasting ways to support the human race, and devise plans as to how to proceed when our resources collapse
If society were to divert their attention to the broader issues at hand, we could begin to solve them and we might even learn how to work together in the process.