Ask not what your country should do

Americans have been taught to hate the word welfare. Even the phrase for the welfare of our nation would raise the hackles of those whose vocabulary is limited but have been taught this knee-jerk reaction. And these IRS instructions; shared responsibility also invokes allergic reaction from the Right Wing. Seems most US citizens now believe their only civic responsibility is to make money. Fewer than half bother to vote. Even national defense is no longer a shared responsibility but marketed as an opportunity for the impoverished (or contractors?). Trivia question: US troops are involved in combat in how many countries? Though President Donald Trump campaigned on a more isolationist foreign policy platform, he’s largely expanded or reinvigorated his predecessor’s conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Niger.