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Response to 2023 State of the Union

What words would you use to describe the message given during Biden’s State of the Union speech? He would like it to have been a message of optimism and strength, jobs and democracy. But to many watching the ‘show’, the message of chaos, confusion, division and crisis is much more appropriate. Not just from the words, but from the interactions.

A World in Crisis

Biden sauntered into his speech by declaring America is the ‘only country that has emerged from every crisis stronger’, and that ‘that‘s what we’re doing again’ referring to the COVID-19 pandemic. But this isn’t the only crisis he acknowledged on Tuesday. From here Biden covered the debt crisis, the climate crisis even calling it an existential threat, the mental health crisis, the opioid and fentanyl crisis, violence in America and abroad, food insecurity on a worldwide scale and unbearable healthcare costs.

The Measure of Progress – The Doomsday Clock

The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe. It is used as a measure of progress upon the earth. A mechanism to measure man’s progress toward the complete enslavement and annihilation of all humanity by those in power to do so. By their own calculations, the end is nigh.

The Doomsday clock progressing from 1953 to 2019
Measure of Progress to the End of Time
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