Oscar Romero asked Brian Griffith:

Hello Brian--I am listening to Upheaval by Jared Diamond and I liked your comment: "You have to admit you have a crisis. You have to take responsibility rather than just blame others." What is your opinion about the current crisis USA is going through today?

Brian Griffith Hi Oscar, thanks for the message. I'm in Canada, but it seems to me that our Conservative Party and the U.S. Republican party share a very traditional set of assumptions. They typically assume that any problems are caused by bad people. The solution is to blame somebody or group, and then demand they be punished. It's different from trying to figure out how to make things work better.

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