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The Ongoing Crisis in the United States

 It's growing and growing, the ongoing crisis. Getting a little worse everyday. What'll happen next is not known but can be guessed at. Financial corporations are doing very well, but real companies—the ones that deal in making things, growing food—they're losing money. This gap, this chasm, seems to be becoming something the whole of the American economy could fall into. It's a schisming. It's reflected in its people, who are set apart on two sides: those who wish to bring an end to police violence, especially against Black people; and those who support the police actions. However, this is simplistic, and perhaps not altogether quite what is the problem. It is history abutting with legacy. The legacy of America is both slavery and genocide. The wealth and power of the former slave-owning states has never again been witnessed, and there is some sort of longing for a return if not to the specifics of that era than at least to the circumstances. There is longing for t