The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list.
In its global rankings, the United Nations Office of Sustainable Development dropped the U.S. to 41st worldwide, down from its previous ranking of 32nd. Under this methodology – an expansive model of 17 categories, or “goals,” many of them focused on the environment and equity – the U.S. ranks between Cuba and Bulgaria. Both are widely regarded as developing countries.
--재미나는 것은
대한민국은 27위...........미국 따위완 비교조차 할 수 없이 우수함을 자랑하고 잇고
지금 전쟁중인 우크라이나가 37위에 랭크되어 잇습니다...(이런것은 자료의 신뢰성을 현격하게 떨어뜨리지요.....아마도 전쟁 이전의 상태를 기준 한 것으로 보입니다)
The U.S. is also now considered a “flawed democracy,” according to The Economist’s democracy index.
--))) 이 자료에서는 Authoritarianregimes, Hybridregimes, Flaweddemocracies, Fulldemocracies 로 4구분햇고
한국은 미국과 일본과 같은 등급인 flawed democracy(결점잇는 민주주의) 로 분류하엿습니다.
As a political historian who studies U.S. institutional development, I recognize these dismal ratings as the inevitable result of two problems. Racism has cheated many Americans out of the health care, education, economic security and environment they deserve. At the same time, as threats to democracy become more serious, a devotion to “American exceptionalism” keeps the country from candid appraisals and course corrections.
‘The other America’
The Office of Sustainable Development’s rankings differ from more traditional development measures in that they are more focused on the experiences of ordinary people, including their ability to enjoy clean air and water, than the creation of wealth.
So while the gigantic size of the American economy counts in its scoring, so too does unequal access to the wealth it produces. When judged by accepted measures like the Gini coefficient, income inequality in the U.S. has risen markedly over the past 30 years. By the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s measurement, the U.S. has the biggest wealth gap among G-7 nations.
대한민국에서 가장 많은 빈부격차를 벌린 위대하신 대통령은 노무현입니다..
노무현은 부동산 투기, 비 정규직 양산에서도 기록을 남긴....3관 참피온입니다..
다른소린 이자에게 큰절 올리는 민주주의자, 진보주의자들의 실체가 무엇인지 모르겟씁니다..
야들이 중증 정신질환자들이다 는 것은 분명한디.........
어떻게 이런 정신질환자들이 그리도 급속하게 때거지로 번식이 가능햇는지는 .............죽어라고 모르겟습니다.
These results reflect structural disparities in the United States, which are most pronounced for African Americans. Such differences have persisted well beyond the demise of chattel slavery and the repeal of Jim Crow laws.
Scholar W.E.B. Du Bois first exposed this kind of structural inequality in his 1899 analysis of Black life in the urban north, “The Philadelphia Negro.” Though he noted distinctions of affluence and status within Black society, Du Bois found the lives of African Americans to be a world apart from white residents: a “city within a city.” Du Bois traced the high rates of poverty, crime and illiteracy prevalent in Philadelphia’s Black community to discrimination, divestment and residential segregation – not to Black people’s degree of ambition or talent.
More than a half-century later, with characteristic eloquence, Martin Luther King Jr. similarly decried the persistence of the “other America,” one where “the buoyancy of hope” was transformed into “the fatigue of despair.”
To illustrate his point, King referred to many of the same factors studied by Du Bois: the condition of housing and household wealth, education, social mobility and literacy rates, health outcomes and employment. On all of these metrics, Black Americans fared worse than whites. But as King noted, “Many people of various backgrounds live in this other America.”
The benchmarks of development invoked by these men also featured prominently in the 1962 book “The Other America,” by political scientist Michael Harrington, founder of a group that eventually became the Democratic Socialists of America. Harrington’s work so unsettled President John F. Kennedy that it reportedly galvanized him into formulating a “war on poverty.”
Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, waged this metaphorical war. But poverty bound to discrete places. Rural areas and segregated neighborhoods stayed poor well beyond mid-20th-century federal efforts.
Camp Laykay Nou, a homeless encampment in Philadelphia. High and rising inequality is one reason the US rates badly on some international development rankings. Cory Clark/NurPhoto via Getty Images
--)) 낭만적으로 보입니까??...........미제 텐트 그쟈??
그런데 이렇게 거지 쇗끼들이 탠트를 치면 집값이 떨어집니다....
그래서 그들은 불도저을 동원 거대한 바위를 여기 저기 갖다 놔.......텐스를 못 치게 하엿습니다..
재산권 보호
준석이 같이 미국 빠다만 처 먹고 학위 딴 것들은 ...집없는 사람들의 탠트는 보지 않고....재산권보호를 보고 오지요..
-아...........이런것이 선진 자본주의 법치국가야
-우리는 이런것이 부족해........취지지지ㅣㅣㅣㅣㅣㅣㅣ
-여자들이 차별을 받고 잇다는 근거 가지고 와라.........................이준석
-전라도가 차별 받고 잇다는 근거 가져 오래 예.............................노무현
In large part that is because federal efforts during that critical time accommodated rather than confronted the forces of racism, according to my research.
Across a number of policy domains, the sustained efforts of segregationist Democrats in Congress resulted in an incomplete and patchwork system of social policy. Democrats from the South cooperated with Republicans to doom to failure efforts to achieve universal health care or unionized workforces. Rejecting proposals for strong federal intervention, they left a checkered legacy of local funding for education and public health.
--)) 미국의 민주당의 기반은 남부입니다.....노예주의자들이엇고, 현대적 의미로 수구 꼴통들이엿습니다.
아브라함 링컨은 첫 공화당 대통령이고...민주당과는 정 반대로 노예제를 반대 하엿고 북부 자본주의자들, 하층 노동자들의 지지를 받앗습니다.
민주당은 남북전쟁이후 70여년을 권력과는 상관없는 정당으로 살앗습니다....
그 사이 변화가 일어난 것이지요..
지금의 민주당과 공화당은 정 반대가 되엇습니다.
3당 야합이던 뭐던....김대중 정부때 첫 민주당 권력이 만들어 졋습니다...
그리고 노무현 권력의 탄생의 기초가 되엇지요....
그런데 민주당을 가장 수구 꼴통정당으로 변신 시킨 자가 바로 노무현입니다.
지금의 민주당과 국힘당은....남북관계에 대한 구호적인 차이 말고(실질적으로는 여기서도 조금도 다르지 않습니다....소리만 그리 질러됩니다......븅쉰쇗끼들이.....)는 그 어떤 차이도 없습니다.......
-주가 3000포인트 시대를 열어 불노소득을 와장창 안겨 주겟다...
-삼성 임원들의 급여를 제한하면 시진핑이 좋아 하고, 삼성전자 망한다...
누가 한 말 같습니까???
민주당을 가장 공화당화(수구 꼴통화)시킨 대통령으로 빌 클린턴을 이야기 합니다.
한국에서 민주당을 가장 꼴통화 시켜 국힘당과의 차이를 없에 버린 대통령은 노무현입니다..
이 자는 국힘당과 연정을 못해 환장을 햇썻지요..
이자는 부패에서도 발군이엇지요....
640만불을 청와대에서 받아 처 먹엇습니다.....
몰래 뒷 구멍에서 받아 처 먹은 년놈들은 잇겟지만,청와대에서 뻔뻔하게 받아 처 먹은 년놈들이 잇을까...
전두환이가 청와대에 받아 처 먹엇을까??
Today, many years later, the effects of a welfare state tailored to racism is evident — though perhaps less visibly so — in the inadequate health policies driving a shocking decline in average American life expectancy.(미국의 기대수명이 확 떨어졋다는 글은 이미 올려드렷습니다...)
Declining democracy
There are other ways to measure a country’s level of development, and on some of them the U.S. fares better.
The U.S. currently ranks 21st on the United Nations Development Program’s index, which measures fewer factors than the sustainable development index. Good results in average income per person – $64,765 – and an average 13.7 years of schooling situate the United States squarely in the developed world.
Its ranking suffers, however, on appraisals that place greater weight on political systems.
The Economist’s democracy index now groups the U.S. among “flawed democracies,” with an overall score that ranks between Estonia and Chile. It falls short of being a top-rated “full democracy” in large part because of a fractured political culture. This growing divide is most apparent in the divergent paths between “red” and “blue” states.
(red는 공화당 지지주, blue 는 민주당 지지주를 의미 합니다.........우리도 꼭 같이 흉내내고 잇습니다.
정치적 극단주의가 비단 미국...그리고 한국에서만의 일도 아닙니다....
그런데 왜 이런것이 으시시 하냐면......이런 극단주의가 매우 짧은 기간동안에 만들어져 표면화 되엇다는 것이고...
더욱 으시시한것은 이것이 전혀 개선될 것 같아 보이지 않는다는 것이지요.
야들은 국힘당 없고, 민주당이 없으면 굶어 되질것들입니다..
그런데 미국의 공화당과 민주당이 아무런 차이가 없듯이
한국의 국힘당과 민주당은 아무런 차이가 없습니다.............
문재인이 공산주의자 아니고, 윤성렬이 자유주의자 아닙니다..
그런데 왜 ............이리 쌩 지뤌들을 떨어 됩니까??
그래야 밥 처 먹고 살수 잇기 때문이지요.........블루 오션
정치의 양극화는 인공적인 것이고....그런 양극화의 패 갈이질에 기반하여 정치를 구성합니다.
지뤌도 참 좆 같이 떱니다..
이런것 말고............응???...................이 씨발놈드라
노란 봉투법...살진고양이 법 이런것으로 싸우들 보라고,,,,,,응??
개 죶 같은 쇗끼드라...
이런것 가지고 .....나발 거리니 ...좋더냐??.......오줌 질질나와???
Although the analysts from The Economist applaud the peaceful transfer of power in the face of an insurrection intended to disrupt it, their report laments that, according to a January 2022 poll, “only 55% of Americans believe that Mr. Biden legitimately won the 2020 election, despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud.”
다른소리가 광화문에서 세월호 서명 받을때....박그뇌가 개표조작으로 대통령 됫다며...몇년을 시위 하는 자들이 잇엇습니다.
그런데 꼭 같은 선거법으로 꼭 같이 치뤄진 선거에서 문재인이 대통령 되자....아예 찍 소리도 않더라고요.
이것 가서 말 해 봣습니다......이것도 소송 낼 거냐??....민주주의가 또 다시 위협을 받고 잇다.........고
이때는 거꾸로 저쪽놈들이 부정선거라고 뒤집어 졋지요..
애 꿋은 준석이만 개 쇗끼 됫지만...덕분에 떳지요..
Election denialism carries with it the threat that election officials in Republican-controlled jurisdictions will reject or alter vote tallies that do not favor the Republican Party in upcoming elections, further jeopardizing the score of the U.S. on the democracy index.
Red and blue America also differ on access to modern reproductive care for women. This hurts the U.S. gender equality rating, one aspect of the United Nations’ sustainable development index.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Republican-controlled states have enacted or proposed grossly restrictive abortion laws, to the point of endangering a woman’s health.
I believe that, when paired with structural inequalities and fractured social policy, the dwindling Republican commitment to democracy lends weight to the classification of the U.S. as a developing country.
(이런식의 주장은 여전히 당파적입니다.....다른소린 전혀 동의할 수 없고..한국도 꼭 같습니다....)
American exceptionalism
To address the poor showing of the United States on a variety of global surveys, one must also contend with the idea of American exceptionalism, a belief in American superiority over the rest of the world.(한국의 민족주의, 민족지상으로 생각하면 됩니다..)
Both political parties have long promoted this belief, at home and abroad, but “exceptionalism” receives a more formal treatment from Republicans.(이런것도 다분히 편향적입니다....노무현교 똥파리때들이 수고 꼴통들 보다 더 민주적이다 고 나발 거리는 것과 같지요............갈보와 화냥년의 차이를 강조 하겟다는 것이니...이런것이 물 귀신 작전이지요....니들만 문제라는 ) It was the first line of the Republican Party’s national platform of 2016 and 2020 (“we believe in American exceptionalism”). And it served as the organizing principle behind Donald Trump’s vow to restore “patriotic education” to America’s schools.
In Florida, after lobbying by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the state board of education in July 2022 approved standards rooted in American exceptionalism while barring instruction in critical race theory, an academic framework teaching the kind of structural racism Du Bois exposed long ago.
With a tendency to proclaim excellence rather than pursue it, the peddling of American exceptionalism encourages Americans to maintain a robust sense of national achievement – despite mounting evidence to the contrary.