Asia and Africa are mentioned, a couple times, as examples of places that don't suffer from the same problems as America.
Somehow the author wants to tie school shootings to lack of healthcare, I assume he thinks a single payer system would fix this.
However, it's not as if we went from a national healthcare system to a market based system and things disintegrated, the opposite is true.
Healthcare regulations and government intervention has increased of the last 50 years and things have gotten worst, and by worse, I mean expensive.
Having a family member with mental issues, I can assure you of what the real problem is...and you're not going to like it.
The real problem with mental health in the US is the institutions have been shut down and we no longer commit the mentally ill in mass. Instead they get forcefully drugged for a few weeks in a hospital, then they start behaving better, then they're released with a prescription, then they stop taking their meds. Wash, rinse, repeat.
You're making a common error—Correlation does not imply Causation. The author is correlating these phenomenon, but not implying a causal relationship. Instead, he's positing that there's an additional cause to both—that America is in the midst of a societal collapse.
Make no mistake, America's main export is war. Europe? Central Europe has been at peace since WWII - thanks mostly to the EU. America on the other hand hasn't stopped waging wars since WWII
The EU was not founded until 1993.
This is not a 'rah rah America' statement, however, the European continent after WWII was rebuilt via the economic engine and output of the United States.
You can take a look at the rebuilding post-war effort of Western Europe vs Eastern Europe to see the clear delineation of success. Does no-one remember the Balkan wars, and post war scarcity that existed to a more extreme detriment in Eastern Europe than Western?
I do agree with the statement that America has not stopped waging wars, this is a factual statement.
You could not be more wrong. The EU was built from the ashes of WWII: https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/history_en
the European continent after WWII was rebuilt via the economic engine and output of the United States.
This has nothing to do with the discussion at hand, so I'll take that as a "rah rah America" statement.
Does no-one remember the Balkan wars, and post war scarcity that existed to a more extreme detriment in Eastern Europe than Western?
Well, everybody that survived the balkan wars are sure to remember, and so do their offspring. Again, nothing to do with the subject at hand.
EDIT: Here [1] is more by the author on how making America more like Europe is the key to solving all of America's problems.
1. https://eand.co/the-american-dream-is-over-this-is-the-age-o...